Final AP Top 25 Poll Makes It a Consensus: Alabama's No. 1, LSU and Arkansas are in Top 5
by cocknfire on Jan 10, 2012 2:00 AM EST
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PrintWell, it didn't take very long after all. Part of the official AP Top 25 rankings are now out, and they tack pretty close to the results of the final USA Today coaches poll: Alabama is the national champion and the SEC has three of the five top teams in the nation.
1 Alabama (54 first-place votes)
2 LSU (1)
3 Oklahoma State (4)
4 Oregon
5 Arkansas
6 Southern Cal
7 Stanford
8 Boise State
9 South Carolina
10 Wisconsin
For now, that's all the AP has released. We'll have to wait and see where Georgia ends up, but if the Dawgs can reprise their role in the Top 20, that would give the SEC a fourth of such teams in both polls.
South Carolina ends up ninth here pretty much because Southern Cal can still be ranked by AP voters. There appears to have been only one LSU diehard but four folks willing to say that defense is overrated when it comes to winning championships. You can see all the voters' ballots here.
Again, it just goes to show what we've been saying for a few weeks now: The bottom of the SEC this year is a pretty mediocre bunch, except for the teams that are just clearly awful. But the top of the SEC is a pretty solid group.
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Roll Tide
With that being said, it is nice to see the SEC so dominate this year. Congratulations to all the teams and fans. LSU, Arkansas, South Carolina, Florida, even Auburn made us proud at the end of the season! Vandy, looking quite unVandyesque. Georgia, good God please hire a new coach.
Thanks to Cocknfire and Year2 for bringing us this blog. I really appreciated the mostly unbiased coverage throughout the year. It is refreshing to read. I am very appreciative for the coverage of A&M and Mizzou’s transfer to the SEC. I will still be stopping in from time to time but for the most part, thanks and I will see you all next season.
Roll Tide
so what is behind the Alabama fans obsession with Mark Richt
You guys win a national title and you still take the time to bash him the morning after. I understand why you might think he’s not a good coach. But what I don’t understand is why out of all our division rivals and auburn, the only people that are obsessed with our coaching staff, is a team we play twice every six years. I honestly don’t get the obsession. And believe me, you’re not the only Bama fan with the Richt bashing fetish. I just don’t get it.
by Mark Mandingo on Jan 10, 2012 11:13 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
but please hire a new coach.
Do me a favor, please. You guys need a real coach in there.
Please? No? Ok, it was worth a try.
- FOW
by skandrewj62j on Jan 10, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
I am not obsessed at all
I was simply recapping my opinion of the bowl games. It is not just isolated Bama fans, it is most SEC fans in general that think Richt should have been fired several years ago. If you can’t see that then you are delusional. I will go one farther to state that it is not only the SEC that believes that, it is most of the national media as well. We have heard it every year for several now. Anyone that hasn’t heard, “is Richt on the hotseat this year” for the past 3 years apparently doesn’t follow football.
maybe most sec fans
do think that, I don’t know. But I hear about it 5 times more from Bama fans in comments. I stopped reading RBR because it got so annoying. And I like RBR. You never heard me begging for Auburn to fire Tuberville. Because I don’t care.
As far as your recap of the bowls, would you have suddenly changed your mind about Richt if he won an overtime bowl game against a top 15 team. I doubt it.
by Mark Mandingo on Jan 10, 2012 3:25 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I think the voters that voted Okie State are deluded.
They must not have seen the strangulation defense that Saban employed.
Not to mention that Big 12 defense is at best… poor.
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