re: Polls say Tigers are better, but are they?

First off, I have thought of the same exact scenario that Carl wrote about starting from the USC - LSU debacle and the following year with Auburn getting the shaft. Polls don't allow some schools to move up to as high as they should be, BCS or not only because other teams in their conference and other conferences are ranked too high, exactly like LSU is this year.

Mark my words, if we have 2 losses, we very well could end up a top 10 team when it is all said and done, only because of how high we are right now and who we would possibly lose to. On another note, if we lost those 2 games by 3 touchdowns each and look really bad, we could end up in the bottom of the top 25. Personally I think we will end up around 10th - 12th at the end of the bowl season.

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If Georgia wins, they will be ranked ahead of LSU.

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I don't agree with this in the fact that we might not drop that far down and Georgia might not jump that much if it is a really close game. Who knows what our offense and defense will bring but I like the comment RJ Jackson said on the radio this morning. He said the offense feels like they are going to have a breakout game. I have been thinking the same thing for a few games now. It seems like we are just missing one or two big plays to open the game up and put pressure on the opponent.

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For people who don't like preseason polls, have imagined what it would be like if we had no rankings the first 4 or 5 weeks? LSU games would still be interesting to me, but the other games might not be as an anticipated.

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Other games would still be interesting because ESPN and CBS would hype the games so much because it would be a "make or break" game to see if they will be in title contention once the polls do come out.

As far as the factor of strength of schedule being instituted, this would be part of the first polls and BCS in October only because you would have to take who played who and how the score ended up. It would put more importance on how teams played against an opponent instead of the final score and how they compared to the team ranked directly ahead and behind them.