🏈 Preseason Top 120 Countdown---Rivals.com

[bamatommy]

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[252BAMA]

11. LSU
LSU will be better. But how much better? That's the question. Expecting the Tigers to earn a BCS bid just one season after going 8-5 is perhaps overly optimistic. The biggest worry is a schedule with the two biggest division foes on the road. <NOBR>[ 2009 season preview ]</NOBR>
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[planomateo]

if you ask me, LSU is getting overlooked right now...

 

['65 Cobra]

if you ask me, LSU is getting overlooked right now...

I tend to agree, though their season could really go either way. Is last year more indicative of Les Miles' coaching and recruiting or the year before?

 

[HiTide]

I know I should get over it, but this makes me laugh:

74. Texas A&M
No coach should be on the hot seat after just one season, but the pressure on Mike Sherman may rise rapidly if the Aggies don't get off to a quick start. Four of the first five games are at home and the other is a neutral-site meeting.

 

[TerryP]

I know I should get over it, but this makes me laugh:

74. Texas A&M
No coach should be on the hot seat after just one season, but the pressure on Mike Sherman may rise rapidly if the Aggies don't get off to a quick start. Four of the first five games are at home and the other is a neutral-site meeting.

That would be Arkansas if I'm not mistaken.

 

[TerryP]

if you ask me, LSU is getting overlooked right now...

Overlooked by whom?

Overlooked how?

 

[252BAMA]

That would be Arkansas if I'm not mistaken.

You are not mistaken. 5 mil payoff. Nice to have Jerry Jones as an alum!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...es/stories/122407dnspoamarkansas.2cc4454.html

 

[TerryP]

You are not mistaken. 5 mil payoff. Nice to have Jerry Jones as an alum!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...es/stories/122407dnspoamarkansas.2cc4454.html

I was being a bit rhetorical.

They've signed quite a long contract with Texas A&M. It's an eight game, maybe nine, agreement they've made to play those games in Dallas.

Arkansas is well known to the older generation in Big12 (or should I say SWC) territory. It'll be interesting if we see their recruiting efforts start to center more on the northern part of Texas in the near future...ala ours in Georgia this year.

 

[252BAMA]

I was being a bit rhetorical.

They've signed quite a long contract with Texas A&M. It's an eight game, maybe nine, agreement they've made to play those games in Dallas.

Arkansas is well known to the older generation in Big12 (or should I say SWC) territory. It'll be interesting if we see their recruiting efforts start to center more on the northern part of Texas in the near future...ala ours in Georgia this year.

The scores in Sunday newspapers broken down by regions still list the Arkansas results in the SW section. I would think that Arkansas has always recruited heavily in Texas.

 

[planomateo]

Overlooked by whom?

Overlooked how?

overlooked by folks that think they are gonna finish 3rd in the SEC West...

 

[planomateo]

I know I should get over it, but this makes me laugh:

74. Texas A&M
No coach should be on the hot seat after just one season, but the pressure on Mike Sherman may rise rapidly if the Aggies don't get off to a quick start. Four of the first five games are at home and the other is a neutral-site meeting.

Sherman has a conditioning program in place this year called "Return to Junction". He seems to be acknowledging the history/culture of a&m more than fRan did.

As far as Dallas being a nuetral site, there are a TON of aggies here....who loved smiling big when they got fRan, boy that sure backfired huh?

 

[psychojoe]

overlooked by folks that think they are gonna finish 3rd in the SEC West...

LSU's SEC schedule is brutal. Besides at Alabama and at Ole Miss the also play at Georgia and Florida at home. To finish higer than 3rd in the SEC west, I think they have to win two of those games. Needless to say that won't be easy. Personally I have them nowhere near the #11 ranking.

 

[planomateo]

LSU's SEC schedule is brutal. Besides at Alabama and at Ole Miss the also play at Georgia and Florida at home. To finish higer than 3rd in the SEC west, I think they have to win two of those games. Needless to say that won't be easy. Personally I have them nowhere near the #11 ranking.

yes, they do have a tough schedule and they will beat Ole Miss and Georgia.

 

[TerryP]

The scores in Sunday newspapers broken down by regions still list the Arkansas results in the SW section. I would think that Arkansas has always recruited heavily in Texas.

Just glancing over their roster about 15-18 players are listed from TX.

One interesting note on TX, when Petrino held their coaches clinic this past spring he had a couple of coaches in from the "big" schools in the Dallas area to speak. It sure seems like he's got his eye on getting a solid foot in the state.

 

[TerryP]

LSU's SEC schedule is brutal. Besides at Alabama and at Ole Miss the also play at Georgia and Florida at home. To finish higer than 3rd in the SEC west, I think they have to win two of those games. Needless to say that won't be easy. Personally I have them nowhere near the #11 ranking.

That's about how I see it.

One thing that dawns on me is if they drop the first two games against UGA and UF, then get one of the two against Ole Miss and Bama, those three losses may have done them in already.

If they don't have a West title to play for...what kind of motivation are they going to have against Arkansas?

I still am of the opinion that their game against Ole Miss decides who goes to the Cotton Bowl.