You nailed it. Before Alabama lost I said if they lose watch ESPN and the SEC fanboys start whining about 1 lost teams not being in the title game.
So now they put Auburn, Alabama, and Mizzou at number 3, 4, and 5 as if that means something. If the polls were so great they would never had Georgia #1 at the beginning of the year and Mizzou not even ranked.
BTW: Alabama only dropping to #4 is a crock. A loss in the last week of the season deserves a lot steeper drop than that.
But that is how it is every year. So many SEC teams rated high every year. Bumps them all up. A couple years ago I compared Big10 to SEC. SEC started with 8 teams in top 25, ended with 4. Big10 had 4 teams in preseason top 25, all 4 were still there at the end of the year.
Missouri...middle of the road big12 team for years...moves to SEC, and now all of a sudden they are the greatest thing.
A&M. middle of the road big 12 team...they come into the SEC and a freshman rewrites their conference record books.
Just sayin...
BTW: Alabama only dropping to #4 is a crock. A loss in the last week of the season deserves a lot steeper drop than that.
Should be behind Missouri for sure...
“BTW: Alabama only dropping to #4 is a crock. A loss in the last week of the season deserves a lot steeper drop than that.”
Why? A drop from #1 to #4 is significant for a team that has hung out in 1st place most of the year.
All of these top tier teams are good and deserving of respect.