AP Top 25 Preseason Poll
August 18, 2006 at 9:30pm by TipsterHog
Filed under Arkansas Razorbacks, Football, NCAA
Arkansas will begin the season ranked in a tie for 31st in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. The Hogs and Wisconsin both received 18 votes.
First game opponent Southern California will come into Fayetteville ranked sixth. Ohio State begins the year ranked number one.
Five SEC schools were ranked in the top 25, including Auburn (4th), Florida (7th), LSU (8th), Georgia (15th) and Tennessee (23rd). Alabama ranked 26th with 141 votes, South Carolina received 15 votes and Mississippi got three votes.
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West Va at #5, oh my!!! the world is ending
What a joke, they must have rec’d votes for their couch burning skills
WV was pretty good last year, but I agree. I don’t know if they deserve to be that high. But, everyone needs to take note of their offense. I believe our offense will look much like WV’s offense. Coach Malzahn has even mentioned that he likes their offense and has met with their head coach (I forget his name) about their offense. That’s one thing they had last year was an explosive offense… and they were almost dead last in passing. How’d they do that you say? Well, they spread the field and completed just enough passes to keep the defense guessing. And I’m pretty sure they either led or were close to the top in rushing. So, you can still run most of the time and win….. AND spread the field. I think that’s what we’ll see this year.
10K, your boy Houston Dale also forgot WV coach Rich Rodriguez’ name last year:Â
http://www.razorbloggers.net/index.php/2005/12/leave-it-to-the-computers/
Great position for the pigs entering this season. No expectations, but not out of touch with the big boys. Good to see a lot of SEC schools up there too. Gives us something to shoot for. Hopefully fatty Fulmer and the Vols drop a thousand spots though, especially after a trip to the ‘ville, I’d hate to see that guy get fired!!
WV has such a patsy schedule, I think that the voters were really voting them at this spot knowing that they have one tough game (at Lousiville in Nov), other wise they should be favored (double digits in all) in all other games
The Razorbacks played five teams last season that finished in the top 14 of the BCS poll. That should tell you how good we’ll be this season, considering we lost several of those games by close margins.