Dear Commish,
Obviously in your many learned years, you still haven't realized that springtime polls are about as useful as tits on a bull. In order to directly address your concerns, I must point you to another fine blog called "Buckeye Commentary." If you follow this link, you will see a composite spreadsheet of all the major websites spring rankings. What do you see? Well, you see that Ohio State is a concensus Top 3 team. Now, look at the teams with the composite scores. The SEC has 5 teams and the Big 10 has 4 teams that make the composite Top 25. The whole conference strength debate is tiresome and deserving of its own post, so I will only briefly address your unsupported allegations.
Who had a better year last year, Todd Boeckman or Matt Stafford? Look at the stats:
Boeckman: 181/299 (63.9%), 2,379 passing yards, 7.96 yards per attempt, 25 TD, 14 Int and a QB rating of 148.95
Stafford: 194/348 (55.7%), 2,523 pass yards, 7.25 yards per attempt, 19 TD, 10 Int and a QB rating of 128.93
How about your comment regarding Boeckman not being able to compare to a SEC champion QB. Once again, a completely unsupported argument that shows a lack of dedication to research or facts. Here are your Matt Flynn stats: 202/359 (56.3%), 2,407 yards, 6.71 yards per attempt, 21 TD, 11 Int and QB rating of 125.76.
Now, as to the viability of preseason polls, lets look at last years preseason polls. We can all make educated guesses, but look at how the experts did last year. After reviewing the link, you can tell that there were 11 teams that were expected to be good but weren't even ranked in the Top 25 at the end of the year. Almost half of the teams that the "experts" thought would be good...weren't so good. That's just one of the things that makes college football amazing. You don't know who is going to be good from year to year (not that I won't try like hell during my exclusive 35 team preview to be published in mid-June on this very site).
As for your final point, you are honestly willing to bet that the winner of UF/UGA gets into the BCS Championship game. I am willing to take that bet. The loser of the bet has to go drinking in a shirt provided by the winner and there must be a digital camera available to memorialize the outing.
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