Well Phil Steele doesn't have us in his top 25.

[Lloyd Christmas]

Link to the video (http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10754565&categoryid=2564308). I really hope we light shit up this year. We get all these articles written about us but then nobody in the media seems to think we are a top 25 team. Really....Louisville and A&M are better than us with all they have lost? Of course Ole Miss is getting its knob slobbed on per the usual. See below:

1 FSU
2 Alabama
3 Oregon
4 Auburn
5 Oklahoma
6 Ohio State
7 UCLA
8 Michigan State
9 Baylor
10 South Carolina
11 Georgia
12 Stanford
13 LSU
14 USC
15 Notre Dame
16 Clemson
17 Wisconsin
18 Missouri
19 Texas A&M
20 Ole Miss
21 Texas
22 Washington
23 North Carolina
24 UCF
25 Lousiville

ETA: Forgot to mention this in the original post. This top 25 isn't necessarily his opinion of what it should be but rather what he thinks will actually be relased by AP

[The Croom Diaries]

I'm kind of surprised he doesn't have us in his top 25. I've heard him talk on the radio and he really nailed it as far as knowing our team....and said we have a chance at 9-10 wins. He also bases his top 25 on where he calculates that teams will end up at the end of the year so if we have 9-10 wins we'd be in the top 25 for sure. Maybe he just thinks we'll be 7-5 or 8-4 and we have a chance at 9-10.

[chainedup_Dawg]

Wow. Texas A&M made it twice!

[dawgs]

Oklahoma, Stanford, USC, mizzou, and ole miss are all overrated. Probably ND too. I hold off on a&m because they've been recruiting at a very high level for a few years, so they might have the talent to still win 8-9 games and finish around 20 in the rankings.

Also didn't he say that's his projection of what the preseason AP poll would be, not his actual top 25?

[Outside Dawg]

Wow. Texas A&M made it twice!

He probably meant for us to be 19 or 21, but he got confused because of the uniforms...

[Jack Lambert]

Like I care what his opinion is.

[UMCDawg16]

He probably meant for us to be 19 or 21, but he got confused because of the uniforms...

HAHAHAA best one i've heard in a while.

[chainedup_Dawg]

He probably meant for us to be 19 or 21, but he got confused because of the uniforms...

Ha. probably so.

Hell, didn't Clemson lose both, Watkins and Boyd? Think that could be a very lofty ranking for them as well.

[Lloyd Christmas]

Wow. Texas A&M made it twice!

Ha, you dick. Typed it into excel manually from the video. Fixed now

[Lloyd Christmas]

Also didn't he say that's his projection of what the preseason AP poll would be, not his actual top 25?

Forgot to mention this in the original post. This top 25 isn't necessarily his opinion of what it should be but rather what he thinks will actually be relased by AP>

[Pollodawg]

Steele is ok, but he does get things muddled at times. He once called Troy an instate school when we played them.

[The Croom Diaries]

Forgot to mention this in the original post. This top 25 isn't necessarily his opinion of what it should be but rather what he thinks will actually be relased by AP>

That is a pretty important piece of info. He does well with those predictions. I think we'll be in his top 25.

[The Croom Diaries]

Steele is ok, but he does get things muddled at times. He once called Troy an instate school when we played them.

I'll give him a mulligan. He knows almost everything about every single school in the country. I don't know how all that info doesn't get lost in his head. He's like a computer.

[messageboardsuperhero]

This isn't his preseason poll. This is his projection of what he thinks the preseason AP poll will look like.

[Covercorner2]

We will be in HIS top 25, and probably ahead of TSUN. He puts ALOT of weight into % of returning players/yardage/TDs/experience, etc. (as it should be) and less into prestige and name of the program. We may crack HIS top 20...

[BulldogBear]

I would just as assume be under the radar until it's too late. We seem to do better that way.

[Pollodawg]

At any rate, TAMU being ranked preseason is ok because they won't be ranked by the end of the regular season. JFF and Evans saved their ass countless times. That won't happen this year. I look for them to be an 8-5 type team and maybe even 7-6.

[smootness]

Steele is fine, but he's very overrated. There's really nobody better at predicting what teams will be from year to year than anyone else.

His ranking and projections are based a ton on recruiting rankings, so of course he'll have Ole Miss projected to do fairly well.

[SouthMsDawg]

I don't get the Texas A&M love, they lost one of the best players in college football history plus the best WR in the SEC and a 1st round OT.

Look at how Florida did they year after Tebow, I see A&M looking very similar.

[dawgs]

At any rate, TAMU being ranked preseason is ok because they won't be ranked by the end of the regular season. JFF and Evans saved their ass countless times. That won't happen this year. I look for them to be an 8-5 type team and maybe even 7-6.

8 W teams in the sec west usually end up ranked around 20-25. just saying.

it's not like he's projecting the AP to rank a&m in the top 10, he's projecting them to rank a&m around 20.

[chainedup_Dawg]

Ha, you dick. Typed it into excel manually from the video. Fixed now

haha, sorry, I couldn't resist. I was actually hoping Steele has done that!

It will not shock me at all if we are left out by the AP.

[smootness]

At any rate, TAMU being ranked preseason is ok because they won't be ranked by the end of the regular season. JFF and Evans saved their ass countless times. That won't happen this year. I look for them to be an 8-5 type team and maybe even 7-6.

They went 8-4 last year with those guys. I look for them to be more like a 6-win team this year, though I haven't looked at their schedule.

Aside from the end of the year in 2012, they haven't really lit the world on fire under Sumlin. He's a good coach, and they still won't be fun to play, but they're definitely due to take a step back. If you win 8 games with Manziel at QB, there are some issues there.

[BulldogBear]

Uh Oh Boys... looks like the love from Jesse Palmer was just a peck on the cheek...saved the french kiss for.....


From Rebel78 on the 247 "Shark Tank" regarding the preseason ranking of "Phil Steele":


"Phil Steele has us at 20th. Wait it gets better. Jessie Palmer picked us as the team that's ranked too low. Says we could make a run at it this year. God I love preseason.

I don't guess the preseason Heisman winner was enough to get MSU in the top 25. Damn!"

[BeardoMSU]

8 W teams in the sec west usually end up ranked around 20-25. just saying.

it's not like he's projecting the AP to rank a&m in the top 10, he's projecting them to rank a&m around 20.


Uh Oh Boys... looks like the love from Jesse Palmer was just a peck on the cheek...saved the french kiss for.....


From Rebel78 on the 247 "Shark Tank" regarding the preseason ranking of "Phil Steele":


"Phil Steele has us at 20th. Wait it gets better. Jessie Palmer picked us as the team that's ranked too low. Says we could make a run at it this year. God I love preseason.

I don't guess the preseason Heisman winner was enough to get MSU in the top 25. Damn!"

That was pretty funny.

[Martianlander]

I would just as assume be under the radar until it's too late. We seem to do better that way.

Agree-let's sneak up on everyone!

[Martianlander]

By the way=this is probably a stupid question, but this can't be the Phillip Steele that played baseball at State, can it?

[Coach34]

We need to start out about 28th and work our way into the rankings as we head to BR for our semi-annual sodomizing