re: Athlon's Way-Too-Early 2018 Preseason Rankings

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25. Florida

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4. Georgia

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I don't see it, but of course I didn't see our run this year coming either.


However,

Jake Fromm will be in his second year.
Swift will be a beast
WRs should be good/not great
OL will be monsters - which means our offense will be good.


Defensively

Losing Roquan/Carter/Bellamy - Enough said

We will be in a lot of shootouts next year. Should be fun.

Do you still think Alabama didn't deserve to be in the playoff?

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Shae Patterson and the receivers they have combined with a lot of talent. They could win 10 or 11 games next year honestly.

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They're also losing 7 starters, 3 of them on the OL.

If Patterson is cleared to play in 2018, they should be good, but I don't see them being the 7th best team in the country.

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Wow, wouldn't have thought Bama would've been #1, must be a Saban thing. We lose something like 9 starters on defense alone, depending on what package we're in...both MLBs, probably our entire secondary, including those in nickel and dime, and probably two on our DL... On offense, we lose all 3 starting WRs, our top RB is sure to declare, and maybe his backup as well...think we also lose our center... I know most years we just reload, and we will to some extent next year, but that's an awful lot to replace and expect to have no drop-off at all...

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Our front 7 returns everyone but D. Payne, Hand and SDH (who has been out anyway). We will be 2 or 3 deep across the board with guys who played a bunch of this year.

Buggs, Ray, Davis, Williams on the DL
Miller, Jennings, Mosley, Lewis, Wilson, Moses, Holcombe at LB

Secondary will be the only green spot on the defense.

I'm not sure who the 3 WRs you are talking about are. We return 3 of the 5 that currently play (Ruggs, Jeudy, Smith) and while Cam Sims is a nice blocker he can't catch a cold. Losing Ridley stinks but we can't even seem to use him now anyway. We return all the tight ends. Harris is not definitely leaving and we return 3 more than capable backs (and possibly Bo) even if he does. Return everyone on the OL (plus 2 talented rising former 5-stars who will be sophomores) other than Bozeman. And, possibly upgrade the passing game.

We're going to be pretty damn good next year. A whole lot less question marks than this year IMHO.

State could spot LSU 14 and still beat LSU by 16

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Georgia lose 3/4 of their starters?

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No, who told you that? We will lose 7-9 starters on d and 3-4 on o.

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7. Michigan

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This vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.

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Shouldn't. tehy had an extremely young team this past year. they also picked up Shea Patterson at QB, so they should be a very good team next year. If they do not win the B1G next year, Harbaugh could be fired. They are lined up for a great season.

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State could spot LSU 14 and still beat LSU by 16

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That's adorable!

State returns 9 starters on Offense 8 on Defense.