Coaches poll has MSU at 10
by witless chum on Jan 10, 2012 8:45 AM CST
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PrintThe final USA Today Coaches Poll was released already. The nation's assembled sports information directors have MSU at 10.
The poll:
1. Alabama (59) 12-1 1,475 2 2. LSU 13-1 1,404 1 3. Oklahoma State 12-1 1,367 3 4. Oregon 12-2 1,290 5 5. Arkansas 11-2 1,188 7 6. Boise State 12-1 1,162 6 7. Stanford 11-2 1,106 4 8. South Carolina 11-2 1,084 9 9. Michigan 11-2 925 12 10. Michigan State 11-3 912 13 11. Wisconsin 11-3 911 8 12. Baylor 10-3 775 16 13. TCU 11-2 710 15 14. Houston 13-1 673 17 15. Oklahoma 10-3 610 19 16. Kansas State 10-3 602 10 17. Virginia Tech 11-3 574 11 18. West Virginia 10-3 554 22 19. Southern Mississippi 12-2 429 21 20. Georgia 10-4 345 18 21. Cincinnati 10-3 248 24 22. Clemson 10-4 237 14 23. Florida State 9-4 205 25 24. Nebraska 9-4 144 20 25. Brigham Young 10-3 79 NR
Well, that seems mostly pretty okay, minus the complete and total ridiculousness of a world-historical ranking fraud, travesty and bad idea at number nine. But those die were cast earlier in the year.
Speaking of teams we hate, ND's bowl loss put them out of the poll and made our loss to them look worse. Thanks, Brian Kelly. You're swell.
Arkansas managed to have the quiestest possible 11-2 top 5 ranked season. I didn't see the Hogs play all year, but I don't think they belong up there given how bad they got trashed by Bama (38-14) and LSU (41-17). Their best wins are South Carolina and Kansas State.
Our friends the Georgia Bulldogs are damn well better than 20, too.
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MSU football gets no love
IMO, it will take at least 2 more 11+ win seasons to start getting some national attention. Places like ESPN simply prefer to fellate Michigan, tOSU & the SEC, and I do believe that weighs in the minds of voters. Unfortunately, our school is branded with the “Same Old Spartans” moniker that will come back in force if this team “only” wins, say, 8 games next season.
Something even more telling, though, is the amateur polls. For example, on the CBS Sports user poll, MSU is 22, behind five SEC schools, including Georgia, whom we beat, U-M whom we beat (and is at 8 – really, people?!?!), and fucking Clemson, which got doubled up by West Virginia in a game whose score (70-33) more closely resembled a UConn women’s hoops game, than a football game. I think that is again an indication of how little national love or attention MSU gets.
KSU was way overrated going into the bowl season.
They got hammered by 41 at home to Oklahoma and squeezed out a bunch of victories over 6-6 Miami, 6-6 TAMU, 5-7 TTU and 7-5 Mizzou. I’m not sold on ARKansas their best win is either Scarolina or KSU and they weren’t even in either game against LSU and Bama.
UGA is another one who is ranked about where they should be.
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