🏈 The biggest weakness for every Way-Too-Early Top 25 team

[18Champs]

Every team in Mark Schlabach's 2017 Way-Too-Early Top 25 is loaded with talent. But every team has its flaws. Here is the biggest weakness of every top-25 team.

1. Alabama

Jalen Hurts won SEC Offensive Player of the Year as a true freshman. And, yes, early enrollee Tua Tagovailoa looks like a future stud. But until we see Alabama's passing game develop, it's going to be a concern. For as good as Hurts was last season, he struggled down the stretch, completing less than 50 percent of his passes with only two touchdowns in the final three games against Florida, Washington and Clemson. -- Alex Scarborough

2. Florida State

Underappreciated late but still underwhelming best describes Florida State's offensive line a season ago. If the unit stays healthy and can form some continuity, it will be better in the fall. There are no assurances that the group will significantly improve, however, and FSU no longer has Roderick Johnson anchoring the line at left tackle. -- Jared Shanker

9. LSU

That schedule isn't a nice one for Ed Orgeron. In what will be his first full season as the Tigers' head coach, he'll start with BYU in Houston before traveling to Mississippi State a couple weeks later. From Oct. 7 to Nov. 4, the Tigers will be on the road three times for trips to Florida, Ole Miss and Alabama. A home game with Auburn is squeezed in there, and the month of November concludes with Arkansas (home), Tennessee (road) and Texas A&M. -- Edward Aschoff

11. Auburn

There are some intriguing pieces in place -- namely Derrick Brown, Dontavius Russell and Byron Cowart -- but the defensive line/pass rush is a question mark for an Auburn defense that loses longtime playmakers Carl Lawson and Montravius Adams. -- Scarborough

13. Georgia

The offensive line could be here, but when you look at the Dawgs' SEC East title chances and maybe a playoff run, that schedule can't be ignored. In SEC play, Georgia faces Tennessee, Vanderbilt (both losses in 2016) and Auburn on the road. The annual game against Florida is in Jacksonville, and what should be a pretty good Mississippi State team heads to Athens. Oh, and Georgia goes to Notre Dame in Week 2. -- Aschoff

The biggest weakness for every Way-Too-Early Top 25 team

 

[jdpas29]

i guess floorduh got edged out of this top 25. i think with Coach Mac at this point with his team is going to have a tough bunch regardless of what it says on paper.

UGA/Fla game this year should be epic battle for who loses to Bama or LSU in the SECCG

 

[TerryP]

LSU in the SECCG

LSU's spring camp is underway and the reports I've read have them moving to a lot of motion/misdirection under Canada. It's my opinion the reason the LSU games have been close lately is they've been able to line up and face Bama "helmet on helmet." They are built to do just that.

A move now to a different offensive scheme makes sense considering how many there want something different than the philosophy Miles employed--but I don't see them built for that as of yet. My gut tells me they'll start recruiting a different type of athlete on offense only to change direction, again, in three or four years when they send Org packing.

I caught a comment by Guice recently claming the reason LSU hasn't had any success running on Bama is due to the numbers in the box. That couldn't be further from the truth.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

SECe may be getting better.....SECw may be getting weaker...
Still ...until they make the AU to the east and Missouri to west....the east will stay weak...ie Vandy, KY, Missouri....USCe...