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jones Top Ten 2011 Season Preview
Take a packet of salt. From a fast food restaurant I mean. Ever look at the ingredients? You would think "salt" right? Not quite. Well, salt and dextrose. And calcium sulfate, maybe even throw in a little yellow prussiate. Or some sodium silicoaluminate or potassium iodide, like mother used to...
SB Nation BlogPoll Top 25: Preseason Ballot
It's time for wild guesses codified into impressive looking ranking formats meant to cow you into submission at our expert status that will have no bearing to what happens on the field when some dude puts the crown of his helmet into the quarterback's mouth. This is how 92 college football blogs...
The Longhorn Opinion Array The Preseason Top 25
I'm submitting Barking Carnival's Preseason BlogPoll wild ass guess entry soon and the final step in my mailing it in research was to consult three of the gridiron Oracles I most respect. This is partly motivated by a real interest in their opinions, as EDSBS's Spencer Hall writes the defining...
Utes 28th in preseason Coaches' Poll
The USA Today Coaches' Poll is out and Utah is ranked 28th, just outside the top-25. Oregon and Stanford are the only two Pac-12 teams ranked, though it should be pointed out that SC is ineligible to receive votes in this poll due to their sanctions. Arizona State is 26th, while Arizona is 32nd...
Pre-Pre-Season Football Rankings Are Out
With everyone all settled down from Spring practices, around now is when every media member will have filed their post-spring pre-season football rankings. The Salt Lake Tribune has done a great job of compiling divisional rankings for both the Pac-12 North and South as we head towards the...
The 2009-2010 Michigan State basketball team in the national scene
The ESPN basketball commentators have now weighed in with their post-NBA-decision top 25s: Andy Katz has MSU all the way up at #2, behind just Kansas. Pat Forde is almost as high on the Spartans--placing them #3 behind both Kansas and Villanova. My two cents: From a strict addition/subtraction...
We're Supposed to Be Good Next Year
Season wrapup stuff will get started any day, now. Ideally, sometime before the weekend. And yes, I know that it's been nearly two weeks since we last played basketball. And yes, I understand that most of you have moved on. But I haven't, and content needs to feel these pages. So, whatever....
From the RTT Archives: January 27
One year ago today: We were celebrating Erik Ainge being named the Offensive MVP for the South in the Senior Bowl. Boy did we underestimate how much we were going to miss him, huh? Two years ago today: Um, my puppy ate this page? Three years ago today: The football team was No. 9 in College...
Kentucky better than South Carolina? You're serious?
I don't really intend to spend too much time on this, having already addressed it here and planning to address it more in the team-specific preview for Kentucky. But the Wildcat faithful continue to chafe at their fourth-place showing in the division, and they seem to be developing a huge...
Why I Think Pre-Season Polls are Destructive
As Purple Reign pointed out, LSU was ranked #6 in the first important pre-season ranking of the season. The ESPN/USAToday coaches' poll. Purple Reign goes on to say, "Okay, it's the preseason, so it really doesn't mean anything (unless it's 2004 and you're Auburn)." But there's the problem. ...
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