Vols #11 In The AP Poll

[oldvolfan58]

September 05, 2006
AP Top 25RANKTEAMRECORDPTSLAST1Ohio St. (39) 1-0156812Texas (7) 1-0145333Southern Cal (3) 1-0141064Notre Dame (8) 1-0140824Auburn (3) 1-0140846West Virginia (5) 1-0135657Florida 1-0119178LSU 1-0118589Florida St. 1-011301110Michigan 1-08411411Tennessee 1-08392312Georgia 1-08361513Louisville 1-08201314Iowa 1-08001615Oklahoma 1-07251016Virginia Tech 1-06731717Miami 0-16241218Clemson 1-05641819Penn St. 1-04671920Oregon 1-04362121Nebraska 1-03582022California 0-1212923TCU 1-01982224Texas Tech 1-01962525Arizona St. 1-013424

Others receiving votes: Alabama 96, Wisconsin 35, UCLA 29, Georgia Tech 27, Boise St. 25, South Carolina 13, Boston College 11, Texas A&M 11, Pittsburgh 9, Purdue 9, Rutgers 7, Tulsa 7, Arizona 6, Fresno St. 3, Missouri 3, UTEP 2.

First-place votes in parentheses

 

[oldvolfan58]

USATODAY.com

 

[doozer]

i need my secret de-coder ring to figure that out.

 

[tidwell]

I'm not sure how to react to the Vols being ranked 1-08411411th.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

i need my secret de-coder ring to figure that out.

I agree, what the heck does it say?

 

[oldvolfan58]

Sorry doozer..do the best these old fingers will allow

 

[patrick]

That is a huge jump. Prob too big in my opinion

 

[TBALLVOL]

Do they have us in the "10" spot?

 

[oldvolfan58]

Use the link guys..we are 11th!!

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

11th according to the link! whew...big leap.

 

[jakez4ut]

yep..thanks for the link...11...wow. maybe a bit too high this early. but i'm not going to give it back.

 

[tidwell]

Almost switched spots with Cal... seems fair enough.

 

[Volstorm]

Too big of a jump.

 

[TennVols423]

11th 11th 11th 11th WOW what a jump......11th 11th

 

[orange+white=heaven]

FromSI .com

No. 11 Tennessee made the biggest jump, rising 12 spots after a 35-18 victory over California. Cal, which had its best preseason ranking in more than 50 years, fell from No. 9 to No. 22 after the meltdown in Knoxville.

 

[BLEEDS ORANGE]

i likie

 

[GenNeyland9]

Wow. Big jump. I like the respect, but we'd better back up that ranking.

Don't you know ESPN/ABC was lobbying for Texas to jump ND so that it will be 1 vs. 2 next weekend . . .

 

[sickemsmokey10]

I hate that for us....we'd be better at 16th

 

[orange+white=heaven]

Arian Foster had "TAKE RESPECT" written on his wristband during the game.
It seems the voting writers are now willing to offer respect early after witnessing Saturday's game. I'm frankly a little stunned by this kind of jump. I really didn't see it happening this soon.

The plus is that, should a miracle season be in store, Tennessee is not lost in an Auburn style quagmire of being too far out of reach in the polls to make the title game.

Again, I'm pretty well stunned....

 

[rwemyss]

Still outside the top 10, I think the spot is may be a TAD higher than we'd like this early, but if we take care of business this week, and bring down the Gators in two weeks, it doesn't matter if we were 11 or 16 or 23 this week... we'd easily break in the top 5 after that.

 

[GAVol]

I'm never one to argue with being ranked too high, but this blows my mind a little bit. I really didn't think we'd jump more than 5 or 6 spots. I guess the ranking this early are just that volatile.

Check out the beating Oklahoma took for not blowing out UAB.

 

[rwemyss]

5 teams in the top 12. :wacko: Tell me this isn't the best conference. Nearly half the league in the top 12.

 

[Volman1970]

i said they would be top 10. I was one off.... Now the coaches poll is a bunch of crap!!!I expected that. I go by the AP poll because they get it right

 

[tvolsfan]

Only 2 points out of the top 10. If we beat Air Force, I like to think that we will sneak in.

 

[GAVol]

Too big of a jump.

I'll take it, but I agree. They compensated for overrating Cal by overrating us.