re: Where do y'all think bama will finish ranked?

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Lookit ... it would not surprise me in the least to see Bama still ranked above SCAR in the final poll, even though SCAR beat two BCS bowl winners, another quasi major bowl winner in the Cotton Bowl winner, and beat seven out of eight bowl teams they played on their schedule ... with seven of those actually winning their bowls.

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South Carolina is a really interesting case because they have a really nice collection of wins to point to in Clemson, MU, UCF, and Wisconsin.

They have a really terrible loss in Tennessee but the reality is opinion poll voters are wildly inconsistent with how they reward or punish a bad loss. If the team is a respected media darling (e.g. 2003 USC) the loss is ignored as a fluke. If the team is a no name team with no national following (e.g. 2011 Ok State) it becomes a talking point.