Ducks drop to 9 in AP poll

[OregonFan4Life]

Stay 6th in coaches in poll.

[QuackininBama]

Maybe I am just getting older, but......who cares.

First thing is, I think we all see as Duck fans, we never deserved that ranking in the first place.

Second thing is.........its a long season. What has Dan always said? "Win and you're in". So lets not stress out over meaningless rankings. Lets see how this develops over the year, because today, yea, this team has no business being ranked, they simply are not very good.

[OregonFan4Life]

I was just posting for information’s sake. Rankings mean nothing and I personally hate pre-season rankings (mainly from the rigged for the SEC BCS era) and don’t think there should even be any rankings until at least week 3.

[squintsdd]

More now than ever, preseason rankings don't mean much outside of bragging rights. Realistically, I don't foresee this team being in the top 5 by season's end, but I do see them in the top 12 and making the playoffs

[UOducksTK1]

Doesn’t bother me and realistically like squints said, we’re probably more of a top 12 team in ideal situation at this point anyway.

Missouri moving up as high as they have is odd though.

[pudgejeff]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

[nogerO]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

We're really going to see the SEC bias now with the 12 team playoff. I will be surprised if there aren't 5 SEC teams in the playoff

[squintsdd]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

We're really going to see the SEC bias now with the 12 team playoff. I will be surprised if there aren't 5 SEC teams in the playoff

My hope was that we'd see more teams from non power conferences in the playoffs, like the basketball tournament, but unfortunately I think you're right

[nogerO]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

We're really going to see the SEC bias now with the 12 team playoff. I will be surprised if there aren't 5 SEC teams in the playoff

My hope was that we'd see more teams from non power conferences in the playoffs, like the basketball tournament, but unfortunately I think you're right

This is why the SEC was pushing so hard for the 12 team playoff. Manipulate the sports writers at the beginning of the year to have 8 teams in the top 25 and end up with 4,5 or six in the playoffs. Fake news isn't just in politics.

[nogerO]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

We're really going to see the SEC bias now with the 12 team playoff. I will be surprised if there aren't 5 SEC teams in the playoff

My hope was that we'd see more teams from non power conferences in the playoffs, like the basketball tournament, but unfortunately I think you're right

This is why the SEC was pushing so hard for the 12 team playoff. Manipulate the sports writers at the beginning of the year to have 8 teams in the top 25 , every team schedules 4 cupcakes and the schedules are such that the top teams rarely play each othe rin conference, and end up with 4,5 or six in the playoffs. Fake news isn't just in politics.

Edit: There are currently 6 SEC teams in the current top 12 ranked teams. Most of them still have 2 cupcakes on their schedules.

[OregonFan4Life]

I will always complain about the SEC 8 game conference schedule with the November FCS game, to me that’s a HUGE advantage when competing for a championship. I’m not against the FCS games but I don’t think any team should be eligible for the playoffs with more than 1 FCS team on the schedule. I personally wish every conference had 8 conference games, allow teams to have a max of 1 FCS game and 1 G5 game, but 2 must be against P5 teams, including the November game. A November week in college football where all P5 teams have a non-conference game against another P5 team would be really exciting and would help determine how good teams/conferences really are.

[pudgejeff]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

We're really going to see the SEC bias now with the 12 team playoff. I will be surprised if there aren't 5 SEC teams in the playoff

I think 5 is a given at this point, the question is do they get 6 now.

[squintsdd]

What's really going to be interesting is the inevitable collapse of USC, and watching LSU get in over them with the same record

[UOducksTK1]

You don't think the SEC having 6 of the top 7 teams currently isn't going to effect anything?

Yeah but there's also 3 Big Ten teams in the top 9.

Also I believe Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas, and Bama are more deserving to be top 10 than most teams. I personally would have USC, Utah, and Miami in the top 10 over Oregon, Penn State, and Missouri (and honestly don't think Tennessee is top 10 team yet either).

So yeah my top 9 (no specific order) would be Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas, Bama, Tennessee, USC, Ohio State, USC, Utah, and Miami. I honestly don't know who I would put 10th. Probably Oregon just because I think we field a stronger team than Penn State and Missouri. Who would your top 10 be?

[nogerO]

ducks still 9th in AP. SEC has 6 of the top 7 teams. No bias.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings