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re: ESPN releases their 2022 preseason FPI
Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:20 am to admiralduckwad
Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:20 am to admiralduckwad
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7. Georgia
Anyone with half a brain could see that GA should have been higher based on schedule and returning players.
There was maybe 1 loss preseason (Clemson) when you looked at the schedule.
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Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:49 am to ThePTExperience1969
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Texas and Auburn being ranked that high is a TOTAL TRAVESTY. Who did this, a bunch of 20-year-old interns? Clown show.
It's what ESPN does with Texas, or didn't y'all know that???
This has been running since 2012, about the time ESPN invested over $100 Million in their program to keep them in the Big 12. The LHN is the only joke bigger than the program itself....
Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:55 am to The_Ultimate_Warrior
quote:Proof that no one that actually makes these rankings actually knows anything about the rosters for any of these teams
10. Auburn
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:04 am to Tornado Alley
Exactly. This list is terrible.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:12 am to GreatPumpkin
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How is Carolina that high? They were terrible last year got humiliated by the Cocks and then lost their best player to the draft. Also I’m not sure how Tennessee is 8 spots below a team that we beat on the road and scored almost at will on. Arkansas is hideously underrated here too
Heres the deal man. We really should make a pact. You guys call us Carolina, and I promise (I already do it) ill call Texas UTjr, UTloser...whatever you guys want and give yall the UT tag.
I think an alliance would be great. Plus we have beaten UNCarolina in everything recently.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:14 am to The_Ultimate_Warrior
It is pretty obvious that some of y'all do not understand what the FPI or Football Power Index really measures. It is not a poll.
I personally think the FPI is flawed. I am not sure why ESPN still does it other than it is something they invented
I personally think the FPI is flawed. I am not sure why ESPN still does it other than it is something they invented
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:15 am to dchog
I can ride with you on that. They are going to be solid for sure, but difference in 7-5 and 9-3 is gonna be how those transfers gel on defense, as well as replacing Burkes’s production with Haselwood.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:26 am to GamecockUltimate
Deal I much prefer y’all anyway. When they tore down their Confederate statues I lost all respect for them
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:27 am to RamboMizzou
For y’all I think it comes down to questionable D line and QB situations
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:45 am to Wanderin Reb
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At what point do people grow out of using dumbass nicknames like this?
NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Posted on 4/14/22 at 12:57 pm to The_Ultimate_Warrior
Bro I'm an Auburn and LSU fan... HOW THE FLYING frick ARE THEY RANKED 10 & 11 
Especially Auburn. ESPN really needs to throw away the FPI ranking 
I remember AFTER LSU won the title in 2019... they weren't even ranked #1 on the FPI And that was after a top 3 season ever with the best offense of all time
Especially Auburn. ESPN really needs to throw away the FPI ranking I remember AFTER LSU won the title in 2019... they weren't even ranked #1 on the FPI
And that was after a top 3 season ever with the best offense of all time
Posted on 4/14/22 at 12:59 pm to talmaniandevil_25
Arkansas lost John Ridgeway and he often took on double teams.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 1:48 pm to SoFunnyItsNot
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remember AFTER LSU won the title in 2019... they weren't even ranked #1 on the FPI And that was after a top 3 season ever with the best offense of all time
SP+ didn’t have LSU #1 either. It’s a predictive model, not a ranking. LSU’s defense had a midseason skid that it couldn’t overcome in the model. Everyone agrees that if LSU played the whole season the way they played vs aTm, UGa and in the playoffs they’d have easily been #1. But when you give up 38 to vandy and 400 rushing yards to Ole Miss your defensive efficiency drops like a rock and it skews your overall numbers a bit.
From Bill Connelly (creator of SP+, IMO a much better version of FPI):
In the Tigers' last four games, their average per-game SP+ percentile rating was 99%. Play like that all year, and you're the greatest team of all time. As it stands, their midseason defensive funk (driven in part by injuries) dragged their full-season numbers down to that of a merely tremendous team.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 2:00 pm to Not Cooper
The preseason FPI uses the results of the last 4 seasons. It’s a garbage way to do rankings before a game is played.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 2:12 pm to The_Ultimate_Warrior
So, the HAL9000 in Bristol thinks Auburn's top 10, but is only projected to win 7 games?
This doesn't make any sense, which in a perverse ESPN sort of way, makes perfect sense.
This doesn't make any sense, which in a perverse ESPN sort of way, makes perfect sense.
This post was edited on 4/14/22 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 4/14/22 at 5:24 pm to truth22
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It's what ESPN does with Texas, or didn't y'all know that??? This has been running since 2012, about the time ESPN invested over $100 Million in their program to keep them in the Big 12. The LHN is the only joke bigger than the program itself....
Where was Texas ranked by ESPN in prior seasons?
Posted on 4/14/22 at 5:42 pm to HOG92
Arkansas has to do some rebuilding on defense. They have no go to WR, no depth at tight end and are a QB injury away from everything failing apart. I expect Arkansas to step back a little from next year. However the 23 season should be better.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 5:43 pm to The_Ultimate_Warrior
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10. Auburn
11. LSU
Posted on 4/14/22 at 6:48 pm to Buster83
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It is pretty obvious that some of y'all do not understand what the FPI or Football Power Index really measures.
Then what does it measure? Is it how good each team actually will be if everyone had equally difficult schedules? Because it's wrong about that too.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 6:52 pm to The_Ultimate_Warrior
Poor Aggies. All that $ spent and they are projected 5 th in the SEC. And if UT and Oklahoma were already in the SEC they would be 7th. Sad!!!
This post was edited on 4/14/22 at 6:54 pm
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