Lindy's Top 25 and All Americans Are Out
by Year2 on May 12, 2010 6:07 PM EDT
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Forgive the link to the full information at Gatorzone.com, but Lindy's has apparently released its preseason top 25 and All American list for 2010. Lindy's has yet to put this information on its site (as best as I can tell), and its magazine doesn't hit newsstands until May 25.
Anyway, here's where the SEC teams and players end up according to Lindy's. Take it with a grain of salt though, as it doesn't rate that highly among preseason magazine publishers over the last decade. And it has Wisconsin ranked sixth, which is so laughable I can't come up with a humorous enough analogy/pop culture reference to compare it to.
I do find it interesting that the offensive players (five) outnumber the defensive players (four). That's a shift from the league's reputation. Also, the East division is home to the top two punters in the country by this count. S-E-C! S-E-C!
SEC Top 25 Teams
1. Alabama
5. Florida
16. Arkansas
18. LSU
21. Georgia
SEC First Team All Americans
RB Mark Ingram, Alabama
WR A.J. Green, Georgia
C Mike Pouncey, Florida
CB Patrick Peterson, LSU
P Drew Butler, Georgia
SEC Second Team All Americans
QB Ryan Mallett, Arkansas
WR Julio Jones, Alabama
K Blair Walsh, Georgia
LB Dont'a Hightower, Alabama
CB Stephon Gilmore, South Carolina
S Mark Barron, Alabama
P Chas Henry, Florida
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Ooh, I know
“And it has Wisconsin ranked sixth, which is so laughable I can’t come up with a humorous enough analogy/pop culture reference to compare it to.”
How about this: “#16 Arkansas.”
Actually, No. 6 Wisconsin makes some sense
They return 10 starters from what was already the most efficient, balanced offense in the Big 10, and they got brutally unlucky in a couple of games last season. (They outgained Ohio St. by like 200+ yards in Columbus and lost on three returns for TD.) As I don’t trust Pryor at all, I’m guessing they’re the best team in the league.
Wisconsin also had trouble with Northern Illinois (a 7-6 MAC team), Fresno State (8-5 in the WAC), Michigan State (finished 6-7), Minnesota (same), and Indiana (Big Ten doormat).
I’ll give you that the Ohio State game was a big anomalous, but there are at least two big red flags that Wisconsin won’t match its 10-3 record of a year ago.
First, Wisconsin was 4-1 in games decided by a score or less, and 70% of teams with a +3 margin in such games over the last 10 seasons have had a worse record the next. Second, when you take out the 44-14 romp over Wofford, Wisconsin projects to being an 8 win team via the Pythagorean expectation (the 10 wins were +1.85, to be precise). In other words, Wisconsin was lucky that its record wasn’t worse, not unlucky that its record wasn’t better.
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