Who's your top 3 overrated programs in college football

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#31
Texas... 2 titles in 50 years..with all that Money and Talent it's laughable they are that bad.
A&M .... No titles in 50+ years with all that Money and Talent how do the Texas school squander so much?
Oregon people see them as a Blue Blood but No titles and all that money and Talent as well.

Notre Dame is in the Mix as well but they do have a lot of hardware even though it's been 30+ years since they won anything of value.

Till this year I'd say Michigan was top 3 but they finally won another title to at least live up to their reputation as the Program with the Most wins.
 
#33
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Jaxon_Vol2017 said:
It's literally Notre Dame every single year. Ranked top 10 and finish 6-6. Most overrated program of ALL time.
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They haven’t finished with fewer than 9 wins since 2016. They’ve won double digit games in six of the past seven seasons. They’ve also, with one notable exception, performed to or over performed their preseason ranking over that same span:

2017
preseason NR
finished 11th

2018
Preseason 12th
Finished 5th

2019
Preseason 9th
Finished 12th

2020
Preseason 10th
Finished 5th

2021
preseason 9th
Finished 8th

2022
preseason 5th
Finished 18th

2023
preseason 13th
finished 14th
 
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#34
#34
Lots of Colorado in here. They aren’t overrated. In fact I don’t think they are even rated. Or even close to being rated. And weren’t last year after about the 6th game. Now they get talked about a lot because of Deion and his son, but they are predicted to win 4 games this season. And it think they were only projected to win 3 last year. So I’m not sure why they are getting thrown in here so much.
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
Notre Dame. The real question is how they still manage to renew that NBC deal without being relevant in decades.
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How’s that gonna work with them being left out going forward? I feel like they will eventually be forced to join a conference.
 
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Boston Vol said:
They haven’t finished with fewer than 9 wins since 2016. They’ve won double digit games in six of the past seven seasons. They’ve also, with one notable exception, performed to or over performed their preseason ranking over that same span:

2017
preseason NR
finished 11th

2018
Preseason 12th
Finished 5th

2019
Preseason 9th
Finished 12th

2020
Preseason 10th
Finished 5th

2021
preseason 9th
Finished 8th

2022
preseason 5th
Finished 18th

2023
preseason 13th
finished 14th
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And their schedule is a joke every year. They usually play 1 or 2 above average teams every year. I can still remember when they played all the academies every year. That was 3 autmatic wins.
 
#45
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cherokeeeVOL said:
Notre Dame. The real question is how they still manage to renew that NBC deal without being relevant in decades.
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Eyeballs. Lots of predictable eyeballs. Which translates into fees they can charge advertisers.

And, because it's such a long-known audience, advertising can be better targeted than in random football games. And on top of that, their academics are excellent and graduates tend to be high earners, so that's another way it's a plum market for advertisers.

The car ads for a Tennessee / Bama game will be Ford or Chevy pickups.
The car ads for a Notre Dame / Stanford game will be Lexus or Mercedes, with Audis and BMWs for graduation gifts.

Those golden helmets are still the Yankee pinstripes of college football. And there's real gold in the paint.
 
#46
#46
EtowahVol said:
Colorado, LSU, Clemson
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What is your definition of overrated? I don’t know of anyone that thinks colorado will be any better than 5-7 or 6-6, so not sure how they’re overrated. The other two I at least somewhat agree with.

I’d say FSU. I think Joe Milton led Tennessee would have given them a dog fight even with J Travis healthy last year.
 
#48
#48
I'm going to take a poke at the idea of "overrated" teams. There's a history to it.

Back before sports was a 24/7 industry, when the whole nation had access to only 2 or 3 games on a Saturday... before ESPN and other networks (plus local and streaming) began televising a total of maybe 80 games each Saturday (plus Thursday)... before there were sports talk radio networks--let alone sports radio shows outside of NFL cities... back when the only weekday college football information was confined to maybe one page in a city newspaper and a few weekly magazines...

In other words, back before we had tons of data on every player, coach, and program, with hundreds of reporters on the beat 24/7, and everyone talking and comparing information --- back then I'd say there were overrated teams. For many of the Fulmer years, Tennessee was one of them.

But my contention is that "overrated" simply meant that certain programs had earned, over time, the benefit of the doubt.

Just as today, every team starts the season with questions: new players assuming starting positions, injuries, having to play young players early, all sorts of unprovens and unknowns. So back before we had so much data and individual team coverage, sports journalists and editors would give benefit of the doubt to certain programs because those programs had a track record of always recruiting well and having better coaches, facilities, and medical rehab.

So it was just a sound bet to predict that certain teams were more likely to successfully solve their preseason questions than other, less experienced or less talented or less proven programs.

But today, with so much data available to so many brains doing so much cross communication... I don't believe there are any objectively, empirically overrated teams today. But there are other factors today...

When billions of advertising dollars (and network solvency) are at stake, we know that will influence what influential people say. (Advantage: Notre Dame)

And let's face it, when you have the largest corporation on earth (BlackRock Investment) with assets greater than every country but two, investing in and pushing companies to change their management to reflect socio-political positions (DEI values)--regardless of how the market responds--then we can expect that colleges with similar DEI stances, like maybe a Stanford, will have their teams extolled as part of a "woke" network policy.

I'm not opining here about whether that's a good thing or a bad thing; I'm just saying it would be naive to dismiss that it's likely now a factor in how teams are presented or regarded.
 
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