Modbert
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Alabama (officially) picks up where it left off - Dr. Saturday - NCAAF - Yahoo! Sports
I'm sure this will make you happier Crimson.
Venerable and relevant though it may be in the actual BCS process, the preseason Coaches' poll is ultimately no more informed than any of the many, many other polls out there this summer. There's persuasive evidence, in fact, that the coaches are considerably less plugged into the national landscape than writers and pundits who have the time and inclination to actually care about more than one team on any given weekend. But in 2010, it doesn't take an obsessed, objective stat head to come up with Alabama as the preseason chalk: Just like everybody else, the initial Coaches' poll is tapping the Tide to pick up where it left off last year, at No. 1.
The "mid-major" conferences garnered significantly more preseason respect last year than ever before with a record four teams Boise State, TCU, Utah and BYU in the top initial top 25 (all four of which finished there, too, for the second year in a row).
In the conference standings, the SEC has the most teams in the entire poll with six (Alabama, Florida, LSU, Arkansas, Georgia and Auburn), but the wealth is pretty evenly distributed:
I'm sure this will make you happier Crimson.