Preseason Top 25 Polls

[Anchorman]

Lost in what sense? Are they going to the national championship? No, definitely not. Can they still make it to a BCS bowl? Definitely. This team went 8-5 under Tommy with a much worse defense, a worse offensive line, but better running backs. Tommy has obviously improved since then, and I still don't see why a 9-3 at worse season is considered lost.

We also no longer have any of the guys Tommy threw to. He had some juju with Eifert and Floyd, Toma and even Goodman that we don't have any more.

Also just lost a couple of NFL-caliber RBs.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

SBNation's Football Study Hall just published a "College Football Preview Magazines Mega Power Poll." Think of it like a 247 Composite preseason ranking.

ND comes in at #8.

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

Preseason coaches poll will be released tomorrow.

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

I really hate preseason polls. How often do they ever even remotely resemble the last one?

 

[Booslum31]

SBNation's Football Study Hall just published a "College Football Preview Magazines Mega Power Poll." Think of it like a 247 Composite preseason ranking.

ND comes in at #8.

Number 8 Feels about right...would like to be surprised again like last year.

 

[irishfan]

Should be interesting tomorrow. Could see us anywhere between #7 and #14 honestly.

I can think of 12-15 teams that in theory could be ahead of us:

SEC: Bama, A&M, LSU, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia
ACC: FSU, Clemson
Big 10: OSU
AAC lol: Louisville
PAC-12: Oregon, Stanford
Big 12: hopefully none, but OU, Texas, OK St could all be ~15

 

[Booslum31]

What do you think of OSU at two?

 

[GreatGolson]

Im gunna go ahead and say we land at #7. Seems a little high given that we lost our QB, but the polls are often kind to us haha

 

[Redbar]

I think #12, the loss of EG, will cost us the top 10 I think.

 

[LoveThee]

I expect anything from the 12-16 range

 

[GreenSox04]

Ill say #9. Our defense and the shiny gold Helmet keeps us inside top 10.


Preseason polls, vital to where a team is going 60% of the time, everytime.

 

[eNDzone]

What do you think of OSU at two?

Have you seen their schedule. If they are not set up to go undefedated, no one is.

 

[dublinirish]

Have you seen their schedule. If they are not set up to go undefedated, no one is.

Louisville says hello

 

[NDdomer2]

#13 is my guess, it will be nice giving espn something to talk about other than baseball and steroids but they will talk about it to the point of insanity.

thankfully camp and preseason nfl games are just around the corner.

 

[Irish2155]

I'll go with ND preseason #9.

Anybody know when the AP releases their poll?

 

[dublinirish]

Ill go #7.

 

[dublinirish]

Btw its Football Month

 

[BobD]

I'll go with ND preseason #9.

Anybody know when the AP releases their poll?

Predicting the 2013 Associated Press Preseason Top 25 College Football Poll | Bleacher Report

 

[arrowryan]

I wouldn't mind being unranked

 

[ThePiombino]

Predicting the 2013 Associated Press Preseason Top 25 College Football Poll | Bleacher Report

Notre Dame once again has the talent to win a majority of its games. Whether that happens is another question. Still, voters will want to make up for leaving this team off the preseason rankings last year.

^^ There's as good of a reason as any to NOT have a pre-season poll.

 

[Irish2155]

Btw its Football Month

I know!!! Was thinking yesterday while paying my mortgage..."this will be the last payment I have to make before kickoff". Pretty much every monthly occurence will be that way until Temple comes to town.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I wouldn't mind being unranked

That makes moving up to # 1 almost impossible. Damn near clipped us last year.

 

[arrowryan]

That makes moving up to # 1 almost impossible. Damn near clipped us last year.

We did it last year. I don't think we get to #1 even if we started in the top 10 because of O$U's soft *** schedule.

I agree that we won't get to #1, but it won't be because they started unranked

 

[Bogtrotter07]

We did it last year. I don't think we get to #1 even if we started in the top 10 because of O$U's soft *** schedule.

I agree that we won't get to #1, but it won't be because they started unranked

Who said OSU is going to make it all the way? If we handle UM, I am going to root for them for the first time ever over anyone, (at least since SCar last year.)

 

[arrowryan]

Who said OSU is going to make it all the way? If we handle UM, I am going to root for them for the first time ever over anyone, (at least since SCar last year.)

Well nothing is ever guaranteed but O$U has the best chance out of everyone to go undefeated IMO. When a trip Northwestern is one of your toughest games, you know your schedule is soft

 

[ulukinatme]

Agreed, it's going to be very manageable for OSU to get to the title game. You never know in college football of course, but I'm hoping for a decent BCS game for us and to hopefully break the BCS drought.

 

[NDWorld247]

I'm not buying the OSU undefeated talk. If they manage to go 11-0, they travel to Michigan two days after Thanksgiving and then may have to play them again seven days later in the Big 10 championship game. If not Michigan, then probably Nebraska. Winning 25 games in a row takes a different level of focus I'm just not confident they have. December 7 should be a fun day in college football.

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

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Irish 11

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

We play four of the current top 25.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I like the idea of being in the top ten with five top 25 teams on our schedule. That constitutes plenty of opportunity to rise high in the standings IF WE EARN IT. Five top 25 teams [I'm including Arizona State, legitimately, I believe] allows us to evade stupid arguments about soft scheduling that almost all other powers have to answer. Additions of BYU, Pitt, Michigan State firm that toughness up nicely. Purdue may or may not be mediocre, but the national vision is that they are a major program. Service academies plus Temple then indicate that the "bottom" of our schedule is better than almost anyone else's bottom.

Pretty good, methinks, for a team with questions at QB [again] and offensive dazzle generally. What this is saying in reality is that the people who know a little about football almost all see:

1). Kelly as a genius, who will always surprise somewhere on the field; and
2). "We gonna be Beast!!!" [to quote a lamented absentee] on Defense.