The answer clearly is you are WRONG…..i dont agree with them, but question and answer stand as is.
Been bitten so many times, we're forever shy. I'm Missouri now (show me).
Before the actual season start every team is ranked based off paper and depth charts. Considering that our QB won 15 straight game and still has the longest win streak out of any college QB that’s in college should make our depth chart look better than a lot of other teams ranked in the top 25. Our line wasn’t great last season but if voters actually watched our team all season they would see that we whipped a lot of teams with DL talent at the end of the season. Our passing defense was also number 1 because teams had trouble completing passes on them. If any other team in America had the amount of talent on their roster as USC, they would be ranked top 15. Not to mention coming off a year where a first year head coach won 7 games when he was projected to win 3-4.
I think the answer is "nobody knows." I sure don't. I'm optimistic, but we could be a VERY good team and still lose 4 games with our schedule. I doubt an 8-4 team achieves a top 15 ranking, even if they really are one of the 10 toughest teams in the country.
This is college football where it’s at least 1 team that’s not ranked and still make some noise and some times win championships or get close. I’m sure 2010 Auburn wasn’t ranked, 2013 Auburn or 2013 MZ, most recently 2019 LSU.
Like the girls say, “let me see perform big boy”.
We'll just have to disagree. Rattler is a question mark no matter how you want to look at him. He may be really good and he may turn out to be the turnover machine head case he seemed to be at Oklahoma. The teams we whipped late weren't very good and the "marquee" win against Florida was actually a win gifted to Carolina by UGA. UGA beat Florida so bad the team gave up on Mullen and Carolina got the benefit of facing a team that had quit on the coach and the season. Missouri was awful last season and scored 31 points against us. Auburn was another team that had given up by the time we played them. 4 of the 7 wins came against EIU, East Carolina, Troy and Vanderbilt, Carolina should never lose to any of those teams regardless of how long the coach has been there. We only had 3 regular season wins against P5 teams and two of those were against teams that had pretty well quit and the other one was Vanderbilt. The only real quality win was the bowl game.
Yea I agree we definitely can agree to disagree. UF or Auburn was just beating all of that other stuff about what UGA did to them isn’t a fact, it’s how you feel. The facts are Auburn almost beat Bama but some how a couple of weeks before that game they gave up on their coach? So they gave up on their coach against us but not Bama? Weird. UNC got shut out as well, not to mention we were underdogs against Auburn, UF, and UNC. My last point because for some reason Spencer get thrown under the bus a lot by our fans that probably never watched him play at OU. He has a career 70% completion percentage, thrown for over 4,000 yards, 40 TDs, and only 12 interceptions. That’s a turnover machine to you? If so I’ll take that any day. But that’s just me though.
Oh I know. I’m just ready for us to surprise our own fans this season. I was called crazy when I said we would win more than 6 games last season.
I think Shane did a great job with what he was handed. But let’s don’t catch amnesia. I along with 4.3 billion gamecock fans were ready to move along from satterfield… minus the unc and fla games, I can’t point to a game and say wow, satt really earned his money
A first year OC teaching a new scheme, while his starting QB being hurt so he have to play 4 different QBs with limited Wideouts. I’m sure any OC would have struggled with those type of problems. We just saw the upstate team struggle with 5 and 4 stars on offense.
Oh I know what he had…. The way we looked so under prepared most of our games made many call for his head. I’m interested to see what he can do with a little more. I’d we look similar to last year, I’m gonna be wary
His history as far as his offense putting up top 10 numbers isn’t a concern for me. He never had the amount of talent on that temple team like he have on SC right now. All we can ask for as fans is to see improvements and for this to be a first year OC did we not see improvements throughout the season? And we saw improvements while having a D3 QB/coach, OL coach having health problems, and playing in the toughest conference.
They had a okay defense, 1 good wideout, and Cam Newton really carried them. Anything can happen. We never see the dark horse team coming. We never predict that team in real time. Every year a team surprises the league. Hopefully this is our year.
Wasn’t that te really really good??? And nick fairley was a man! Cam ran that offense so well that nobody had ever seen anything like it. I don’t see us sneaking up on anyone like they did. But hey…. Hey if we do???? Good lord I’d be happy
If you actually looked at temple numbers from year one to year two I believe he ranked 1-2 in offense in his conference.
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