2021 team Gets Rated Yikes?

[qdawgg]

should drop football and join the big east, after all what’s the point

Don’t be so dramatic, good lord. Anybody says anything construed as negative by you and you freak out. Relax.

 

[ImperialOrange]

This year was the first time Bama went undefeated since 2009. They're obviously a well oiled machine, but they lose games every year to often good but not great teams.

Think some of that is from boredom and familiarity in conference. They've only lost 2 non conference games in the past 5 seasons and both were to Clemson in title games. When they're interested, their tough.

Must be nice to have limitless funds, best known head coach in the game and a coaching staff seemingly all of former head coaches.

 

[MadNY3]

We are seeing wild swings for several teams from year to year. I think it is evidence that there are a lot of programs in the conference that are very close to each other in terms of talent, depth and coaching.

For many in the conference, all it takes is one or two key players to get hurt and things can go south in a hurry.

Teams like Louisville, NC State, Duke and Syracuse rise and fall dramatically from year to year.

It is kind of scary but also kind of reassuring to know it does not take a miracle to have a major turnaround from a bad season to a very good one.

The key to consistency, I think, is building depth. Most any team in the conference can be good in a given year. Sustained excellence takes building quality depth. That is very hard to do.

Problem is Syracuse has had too few “risen” years while Louisville, NC State have been doing well with blips.