Quote Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB**** View Post
None of those teams are head and shoulders better than us except Bama. And that one is at home. So even you analytics guys have to say that helps us in that game. Other teams have problems too. LSU cant throw, A&M is a constant underachiever and Auburn is a wild card with a bad OL.
I'm just kind of confused-is the question "can we be competitive with the top schools in the division with our current recruiting profile"-that answer is yes outside of Bama, but to win the West you have to beat all or all but 1(sometimes) and we haven't shown we can do that. If y'all wanna talk about how recruiting rankings can overrate traditional powers, have at it. There's a plethora of examples of that happening every year. Recruiting at an elite level isn't a sure fire ticket to winning your league, but it does get you in the room. It's prerequisite. We can't get in the room bc of where we recruit, which is part of the reason we are always underrated.

BTW-early average spread projections for the games mentioned(per S&P+ & Massey Composite)
Aub -3.85
LSU -1.95
A&M -1.9
Bama -11.25

On average you'd expect to win 1.45 of these 4 games which means there's a 45% chance of going 2-2. I'd probably bet on 1-3.