2021 CFB Polls/Rankings

[wood 11,763]

5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Was wondering if we’d sneak in at 25 or so. Kinda happy we did not. 
would be interested in some voter rationale for the delta between Texas and aggy. I know the answer and it’s laziness but would be fun to see them try to explain it otherwise. 

Yep. It's bullshit and polls suck ass, but the slight should provide some very good motivation.

[markstanco 12,786]

Clemson still ranked is ridiculous. Texas out of the top 25 for a loss against a top 10ish team is equally ridiculous.

It’s the AP, who cares. Do a Vertigo Top 25, it has the exact same bearing on CFB as the AP.

[Wulaw Horn 19,580]

I went to be ranked as high as possible. The idea is to go to the CFP. Being off the radar isn’t helpful with that. 
This is a really really really unlikely goal,  it a 12-1 Texas team that started the year ranked top 10 would have a much better chance than one that’s out of the rankings headed into October. 
next year in the SEC I suppose it doesn’t matter but nothing good comes of being outside the rankings right now imo. 

[Sir Ulrich 5,337]

Texas finished 26th btw

 

[BurntOrange&White 41,846]

Lmao at Clemson still being ranked

[LTtxfan 49,991]

17 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Was wondering if we’d sneak in at 25 or so. Kinda happy we did not.   would be interested in some voter rationale for the delta between Texas and aggy. I know the answer and it’s laziness but would be fun to see them try to explain it otherwise. 

#13 for aggy is laughable... but keeps them near the top of the aggy rollercoaster for a little longer...  😋

[TexArcher 39,048]

Agree that pre-season polls make all of the early week polls useless.  But Clemson being ranked ahead of us with 2 losses while we're 3-1 with the only loss to a top 10 team is just fucking stupid.

Edited September 26, 2021 by TexArcher
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[GTNY 284]

And this is why we have to get into the SEC as soon as possible

[Mikey4 2,484]

As of now, we have 6 ranked teams on our schedule - LA, OU, OSU, Baylor, ISU, and KSU. Make that 7 if you count arky (they were unranked we played them). Take care of business and the polls will follow.

 

Edit: that's from espn. It looks like they haven't updated for today's polls.

Edited September 26, 2021 by Mikey4

[Sgt Hulk 14,426]

So I’m tracking. Aggy has scored 2 tds against power 5 teams. Clemson hasn’t scored all year with 2 losses. Texas has tan a train the last few weeks ans nothing lol 

[Hook1997 5,509]

How in the hell are we not ranked and Baylor is wtf is this bullshit lol

[LonghornSean 4,103]

Here's the full AP

AP Top 25 - 9/26

 

RK	TEAM	REC	PTS	TREND
1	Alabama(58)	4-0	1546	-
2	Georgia(4)	4-0	1492	-
3	Oregon	4-0	1411	-
4	Penn State	4-0	1283	2
5	Iowa	4-0	1277	-
6	Oklahoma	4-0	1212	2
7	Cincinnati	3-0	1154	1
8	Arkansas	4-0	1094	8
9	Notre Dame	4-0	1076	3
10	Florida	3-1	1019	1
11	Ohio State	3-1	1005	1
12	Ole Miss	3-0	852	1
13	BYU	4-0	748	2
14	Michigan	4-0	677	5
15	Texas A&M	3-1	651	8
16	Coastal Carolina	4-0	613	1
17	Michigan State	4-0	581	3
18	Fresno State	4-1	415	4
19	Oklahoma State	4-0	341	NR
20	UCLA	3-1	316	4
21	Baylor	4-0	233	NR
22	Auburn	3-1	197	1
23	NC State	3-1	145	NR
24	Wake Forest	4-0	142	NR
25	Clemson	2-2	138	16

 

Complete Rankings

Others receiving votes: Texas 131, Maryland 91, San Diego State 57, Boston College 55, SMU 44, Kentucky 26, Iowa State 25, LSU 24, Arizona State 23, Virginia Tech 20, Wisconsin 13, Rutgers 6, Kansas State 5, UTSA 4, Oregon State 4, Louisville 3, North Carolina 1

Dropped from rankings: Iowa State 14, Wisconsin 18, North Carolina 21, Kansas State 25

[Red Five 41,703]

So why is OU ranked ahead of Arkansas?

[Js1 87,175]

5 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

How in the hell are we not ranked and Baylor is wtf is this bullshit lol

4-0 and beat a (then) ranked team vs 3-1 with a blowout of Tech

Who cares

[Red Five 41,703]

Baylor is being rewarded for playing Texas State and Texas Southern.

[ousux 5,637]

So why is OU ranked ahead of Arkansas?

Spencer Rattler brah, Heisman and first overall pick in the draft. And have you seen belly tat's brisket? Slaps hard man..

[Atticus 4,208]

I'm glad this team can feel disrespected with something to prove going into Fort Worth and Dallas.

[txindep 144]

Baylor beat then #14 Iowa State yesterday. 2-2 ISU also lost to (now #5) Iowa, but ISU’s going to be a tough out as season progresses, too much senior talent not to be. 

[Drew 2,922]

I mean the fact that Aggy is STILL 13 or so and Texas isn’t even ranked is laughable.

Yes you can say Texas looked worse against Pig, but that was a true road game with a freshman QB playing in his first real road game as well.

Aggy was embarrassingly bad on offense. Worse than Texas was.

[ousux 5,637]

I like being left out of this one, we need sustained consistency. Having said that, there are a number of teams on there we could beat on any given Saturday, 3 or 4 that could be mudholes. It will all work itself out in a few weeks.

[Lhorn 5,090]

I think one you say aggy was playing with their back up QB. Not saying their rank is correct. They should have dropped a few more IMO

[perfectchaos007 6,780]

1 minute ago, Lhorn said:

I think one you say aggy was playing with their back up QB. Not saying their rank is correct. They should have dropped a few more IMO

Texas played Arky with the backup QB too

[Jimbob 424]

Coaches poll is garbage with OU at 4, aggy 13 and Clemson 19.  
 

they are the worst about not paying attention to what’s actually happening on the field.   
 

There’s at least 5 teams below OU that would be favored at a neutral site, I see maybe 2-3 teams below aggy that I think they would beat. 
 

clemson with all their talent but shitty QB play and 2-2 record should not be getting the benefit of any doubts right now. 

[RollLeft 5,090]

56 minutes ago, LTbear said:

For the sake of argument, I'm not sure I'd say it was really the same loss...

 

But hey, preseason rankings are dumb and we live with their reverberations. 

You're right.  aTm scored 10 we barely scored 21.    

[bigcigar 1,224]

If we were to win out, the media narrative would be Sark is a mastermind and grew a terrible team into a CFP contender by making the hard call to bench Card.

Not a very likely outcome as what surfaced against pig is going to pop up at least a few times before the season is over. I’d expect Patterson/Campbell to exploit the offensive holes and Riley to exploit the defensive holes.

[Stunns38 3,805]

Oh well, need the bulletin board material. Need to play with an added emotional edge.

[Pato del Muerto 53,456]

6 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

I think one you say aggy was playing with their back up QB. Not saying their rank is correct. They should have dropped a few more IMO

And they will be all or most of the year. So adjust their ranking accordingly. 
 

also arky had to play their backup qb and that’s the only reason the loss wasn’t worse. 

Edited September 26, 2021 by Pato del Muerto

[satyanash 15,563]

This is from an account that routinely shits on us, lol.

 

[Wulaw Horn 19,580]

1 hour ago, txindep said:

Baylor beat then #14 Iowa State yesterday. 2-2 ISU also lost to (now #5) Iowa, but ISU’s going to be a tough out as season progresses, too much senior talent not to be. 

Except for the fact that they are schematically boring and their QB is more overrated than anyone this side of Spencer Rattler and they are also unathletic sure, that’s a reall hard team to beat. 
They are terrible and we will win convincingly. 

[Huckleberry 34,580]

The only gripe I have is all the talk all offseason about how Louisiana was a really tough team and they were going to beat us because they returned everyone from a 10-1 team and blah blah blah.

Now apparently we haven't beaten anyone. I mean I was all over this board telling everyone Louisiana was overrated and we were going to cover easily but the inconsistency is dumb. Louisiana isn't that great but they're certainly better than anyone A&M has beaten.

[wood 11,763]

1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Agree that pre-season polls make all of the early week polls useless.  But Clemson being ranked ahead of us with 2 losses while we're 3-1 with the only loss to a top 10 team is just fucking stupid.

Exactly. It's why we have aggy at 13/15, Clemson still ranked, etc, etc. There shouldn't even be a poll at all until about week 3 or so, but $$$. Preseason polls are laughable at best. Clemson & aggy are perfect examples of why. Neither one of them should have been ranked anywhere near their preseason spot.

[Huckleberry 34,580]

Also...

Colorado offense versus A&M - 69 plays for 288 yards, 4.17 yards per play. Pretty good showing for A&M, they do have a good defense

Colorado offense versus their other two FBS opponents Minnesota and Arizona State - 106 plays for 313 yards, 2.95 yards per play

They have a good defense but don't see much reason to think they're great yet. They still have a bunch of liabilities running around in the secondary.

[wood 11,763]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

4-0 and beat a (then) ranked team vs 3-1 with a blowout of Tech

Who cares

 

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Baylor is being rewarded for playing Texas State and Texas Southern.

Just more reasons the polls suck. The typical level of thought & effort put into the voters' decisions is probably just thinking back to last year, looking at current records, & not even actually looking at who these teams have played.

[Goredho 17,650]

2 hours ago, mvlonghorns said:

I love how we have the same record and loss as aggy, and have better wins, yet we are #26 and they are #13.

In 2025, the SEC media bias and BOMC will converge to send a 6-5 Texas team to the playoffs.

[gmr548 16,691]

Clemson is getting the benefit of the doubt because they’ve been a juggernaut fit the past half decade and have recruited at an elite level. Texas isn’t because they haven’t and people’s primary memory is getting punked at Arkansas.

It is what it is. There’s like two votes between the two teams and it’s not worth getting worked up over. If Texas beats TCU with any sort of decisiveness they’ll certainly be ranked going to Dallas. If they lose it confirms they shouldn’t be.

[BearSchlong 8,238]

Exactly. It's why we have aggy at 13/15, Clemson still ranked, etc, etc. There shouldn't even be a poll at all until about week 3 or so, but $$$. Preseason polls are laughable at best. Clemson & aggy are perfect examples of why. Neither one of them should have been ranked anywhere near their preseason spot.

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[wood 11,763]

2 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

Reddit.com/r/selfawarewolves

Wut?

[texifornia 59,011]

7 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Clemson is getting the benefit of the doubt because they’ve been a juggernaut fit the past half decade and have recruited at an elite level. Texas isn’t because they haven’t and people’s primary memory is getting punked at Arkansas.

It is what it is. There’s like two votes between the two teams and it’s not worth getting worked up over. If Texas beats TCU with any sort of decisiveness they’ll certainly be ranked going to Dallas. If they lose it confirms they shouldn’t be.

Yup. And I'm fine without a week of Fat Pat rolling out his "playing a ranked Texas team, no one respects us, etc etc" speil.

[Billy Pilgrim 2,074]

2 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I went to be ranked as high as possible. The idea is to go to the CFP. Being off the radar isn’t helpful with that. 
This is a really really really unlikely goal,  it a 12-1 Texas team that started the year ranked top 10 would have a much better chance than one that’s out of the rankings headed into October. 
next year in the SEC I suppose it doesn’t matter but nothing good comes of being outside the rankings right now imo. 

This is exactly how we should all feel. The “I don’t want to be ranked” crowd is idiotic. It’ll be much harder to make up ground against overrated teams like Notre Dame, Penn State, Iowa and Florida if they’ve got a 20 spot head start on us. I thought we’d be 22 this week, 17 next week and 11 after beating OU. Instead, we’ll be lucky to be top 20 after beating OU without many more impressive wins left on our schedule. 

[Nueces River Rat 5,794]

1 hour ago, txindep said:

Baylor beat then #14 Iowa State yesterday. 2-2 ISU also lost to (now #5) Iowa, but ISU’s going to be a tough out as season progresses, too much senior talent not to be. 

Baylor also beat Texas State in their opener by 9.  Texas State lost  to the powerhouses known as  Incarnate Word last week by 8 and  yesterday Eastern Michigan by 38.     Baylor is overrated hot garbage just like aggy. 

Edited September 26, 2021 by Nueces River Rat

[Hagbard Celine 11,218]

18 minutes ago, Goredho said:

In 2025, the SEC media bias and BOMC will converge to send a 6-5 Texas team to the playoffs.

we're going to beat aggy without even playing them

and this begs the question

when we plunge that ass, how are they going to deal with the moral victory of a sec loss?

[Hagbard Celine 11,218]

3 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

This is exactly how we should all feel. The “I don’t want to be ranked” crowd is idiotic. It’ll be much harder to make up ground against overrated teams like Notre Dame, Penn State, Iowa and Florida if they’ve got a 20 spot head start on us. I thought we’d be 22 this week, 17 next week and 11 after beating OU. Instead, we’ll be lucky to be top 20 after beating OU without many more impressive wins left on our schedule. 

we are not making the playoffs in year 1

find chalkboard

write this 1000 times

show me 11-1 and we're in no matter what anyone else does because bomc

but we're not winning out so this consternation is a waste of pixels

[GabrielsHorn 2,246]

Auburn still being ranked is a clear sign that people don't actually watch the games. 

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

Rankings are dumb.  
Texas wins out and wins the b12 then we’re in the playoffs.  If they don’t, then whogivesashit.gif

[Wulaw Horn 19,580]

7 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we are not making the playoffs in year 1

find chalkboard

write this 1000 times

show me 11-1 and we're in no matter what anyone else does because bomc

but we're not winning out so this consternation is a waste of pixels

I mean, yeah, agreed. But if we started in the top 10 and won the conference at 11-2 we be smack dab in the middle of the conversation. 
I sort of half way expect to be 10-2

[hobbes2702 13,440]

If we go 11-2 we will be in the conversation regardless of where our preseason ranking is. This is fucking Texas. We shouldn’t be ranked right now and the hand wringing about it is dumb. 

[Fondren & Main 6,894]

Let the disrespect continue it will be easier for Sark to motivate and foster his culture.  We must all become Vince Young and HATE losing more than we love winning.  Sark was right about that.  Vince HATED to lose. 

[Billy Pilgrim 2,074]

12 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

If we go 11-2 we will be in the conversation regardless of where our preseason ranking is. This is fucking Texas. We shouldn’t be ranked right now and the hand wringing about it is dumb. 

What??? Why??? Why shouldn’t we be ranked? You think aggy, Clemson, Auburn, Baylor, NC State are better than us?

Edited September 26, 2021 by Billy Pilgrim

[wood 11,763]

5 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Let the disrespect continue it will be easier for Sark to motivate and foster his culture.  We must all become Vince Young and HATE losing more than we love winning.  Sark was right about that.  Vince HATED to lose. 

Yep. He was absolutely right. I've been lucky (or unlucky?) enough to compete with and against pros in 3 sports, and I can tell you that's exactly the trait that they all had in common. Losing is the worst thing imaginable. Winning is the only remotely acceptable outcome, preferably while crushing your opponent in every imaginable way.

[LonghornSean 4,103]

AP Vote distribution for this week: https://collegepolltracker.com/football/distribution/2021/week-5

How AP voted Texas: https://collegepolltracker.com/football/team/texas-longhorns/2021