Final Coaches Poll (1/10/2023)

[TJSVOLS]

They will. Georgia will be ranked preseason #1 and with their easy 2023 schedule they will remain #1 entering the 2023 playoffs.

Maybe, but the trip to Knoxville will not be a cakewalk.

 

[JRich]

My Vote:

1. UGA
2. Michigan
3. OSU
4. Tennessee
5. Alabama
6. TCU

TCU should have sunk like a stone after that no show performance.

 

[theroyz71]

It's mystifying. If you lose at any other point in the season to anyone, let alone lose 65-7, you actually drop in the polls.

TCU went from #3 to #2

 

[iuvol]

Anyone voting TCU as #2 should lose their vote, that's ridiculous.

It is nothing short of a joke, you lose by 58 points and are the second best team in America, ludicrous

 

[iuvol]

My Vote:

1. UGA
2. Michigan
3. OSU
4. Tennessee
5. Alabama
6. TCU

TCU should have sunk like a stone after that no show performance.

Like that better than theirs, but TCU might still be rated too high

 

[troj89]

Using the eyeball method, I'd have it:
1-UGA
2-OSU
3-UT
4-Bama
5-TCU
6-Michigan

I understand the Vols over bama but if you do that because of head to head then Michigan should definitely be over OSU with one less loss and absolutely killing them on their field.

 

[joevol33]

I'm just waiting on the ones who pulled for Georgia "because it helps us in the final rankings ", explain how it helped us. We're in the exact spot we were.

 

[allvol123]

Yeah! We’ve reached participation trophy status in major college athletics if TCU is 2.

 

[brockytop]

Anyone voting TCU as #2 should lose their vote, that's ridiculous.

Couldn’t agree more. They lost two games, didn’t win their conference championship, and were absolutely pummeled in their last game. What a damn joke.

 

[bamawriter]

I would love to see a stat guru dig thru all of the polls going back to the 30s to see if there has been another instance of a team getting beat like TCU (or even close to it) that subsequently rose in the polls.

 

[brockytop]

Who you gonna put ahead of them though? The team they beat or the team that the team they beat...beat. or the 2 that didn't make the playoffs

TN, AL, and Ohio State.

 

[WillOverstreetFanClub]

UTSA isn’t a game to sleep on next year imo.

 

[vegasvolfan]

Tennessee at #6

NCAA College Football Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

Rank-Team-Record-1st Place Votes

1. UGA 15-0 1575 63
2. TCU 13-2 1482
3. MICHIGAN 13-1 1423
4. OHIO STAYE 11-2 1404
5. ALABAMA 11-2 1329
6. TENNESSEE 11-2 1273
7. PENN STATE 11-2 1199
8. WASHINGTON 11-2 1091
9. TULANE 12-2 981
10. FSU 10-3 926
11. UTAH 10-4 878
12. CLEMSON 11-3 839
13. USC 11-3 829
14. KANSAS STATE 10-4 769
15. LSU 10-4 766
16. OREGON 10-3 708
17. OREGON STATE 10-3 690
18. NOTRE DAME 9-4 498
19. MISSISSIPPI STATE 9-4 364
20. TROY 12-2 314
21. UCLA 9-4 238
22. PITTSBURGH 9-4 193
23. SOUTH CAROLINA 8-5 164
24. FRESNO STATE 10-4 134
25. TEXAS 8-5 69

Fell out of the rankings:

No. 22 Texas-San Antonio; No. 25 North Carolina.

Also receiving votes:

Texas-San Antonio 68; Minnesota 57; Air Force 50; Duke 47; North Carolina 35; Boise State 22; Texas Tech 13; South Alabama 9; Iowa 9; Wake Forest 6; Ohio 6; Maryland 4; Louisville 3; Cincinnati 3; Brigham Young 3; Central Florida 2; Purdue 1; Mississippi 1.

I don't put much stock in the coaches
polls anymore.

 

[Vol865]

TN, AL, and Ohio State.

Maybe OSU. They did almost beat UGA but lost to the the team TCU beat. Idk.

 

[Vol737]

Complete garbage poll. TCU loses their conference championship game, gets absolutely blown out in the Championship game (might as well not even shown up) and ends up at #2. Don’t even get me started on Bama being ranked ahead of the VOLS. It’s nauseating. Polls have become an extension of the Heisman sham scam. Both largely meaningless and diluted by people with their own agenda.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

TCU would have to beg me to keep them in the top 10. I am saying #6 for them, tops.
1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Tennessee
4. Alabama
5. Michigan
6. TCU, holding my nose

 

[Boone&Crockett]

Ah well, like Rickey Bobby said, "If you ain't first you're last", only spot that mattered was #1.

 

[NCFisher]

Maybe OSU. They did almost beat UGA but lost to the the team TCU beat. Idk.

That's why, in practicality, common opponent games means less than nothing in projecting outcomes. It's only utility is fan speculation.

 

[CincinnatiVols]

I'm just waiting on the ones who pulled for Georgia "because it helps us in the final rankings ", explain how it helped us. We're in the exact spot we were.

I root for SEC teams in bowls because the SEC dominance means that when we soon find ourselves winning SEC Titles we will get the respect that we deserve and get the best seed possible. Everyone knows the SEC Champ is always the best team in the country, that can help us down the line.

 

[joevol33]

I root for SEC teams in bowls because the SEC dominance means that when we soon find ourselves winning SEC Titles we will get the respect that we deserve and get the best seed possible. Everyone knows the SEC Champ is always the best team in the country, that can help us down the line.

Not being smart, I'm genuinely asking because I don't understand. You think watching Georgia get the best recruits over us because they won, just so we can say "we're in the SEC!" Is better than Georgia losing, and us getting some of those recruits? That's what's confusing me, cause that's where the best recruits want to go, to teams that win it all. Not just to say they're in the SEC. Also, help me understand why none of you felt this way when Alabama plays for the title? We've had several threads from alleged Tennessee fans explaining why Georgia winning allegedly helps us, it's the sec, etc, but the very same people weren't for Alabama? Same logic, but they're not sticking to their own logic. Again, I'm just asking, because it doesn't make sense.

 

[Proud Army Wife]

That USCjr loss is the thorn in the side of the season.

 

[movinonup]

Rather be ranked below them in the polls, but ahead of them on the scoreboard.............

 

[Rifleman]

We beat 4 ranked teams
Bammer beat 2
We beat them
We’re ranked 6th
Makes sense

The good old boys club has spoken and Tennessee--and rest assured this is very statistically-grounded, serious journalism and not some threadbare cliché pulled out of their butts to cover up their biases--"just didn't pass the eye test".

 

[Rifleman]

That USCjr loss is the thorn in the side of the season.

We gonna get medieval on them chickens next year, though.

 

[lifeisdeep]

This is why the playoff system is flawed.
TCU had the biggest beat down and will be remembered as the #2 team.
Tennessee with a huge decisive win in the Orange Bowl should have moved up a minimum to #3.

Go back to 1985
Miami had a chance to move up to #1 and Tennessee destroyed them and were rewarded going #8 to #4
It meant something and gave us a sense of pride.
Miami went from #2 to #9 and that team would have run circles around TCU.

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That 'Canes team would have run TCU out of the stadium. Kind of like UGA did.