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ESPN.com examined which teams were the most overrated and underrated over the last 10 college football seasons by taking a team's preseason ranking in the AP Top 25 poll and compared it to where that team finished the season. Here are the highlights: Most overrated teams in last 10 years: 1. Florida State (-63) 2. Tennessee (-58) 3. Washington (-42) 4. Miami (-35) T5. Ohio State (-34) T5. ... [link]

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The four letter network did an analysis of the ove...
Published 8/19/2007 by r at Aggie Sports Blog
The four letter network did an analysis of the overrated-ness and underrated-ness of college football teams. Their analysis simple: using the AP poll sum the difference between a team's preseason rank and their final rank (a team that starts at 1 and ends up at 10 gets -9 and a team that starts at 20 and ends up at 13 gets a 7) then sum this number over the past 10 years, the lower the number the more overrated a team is. ...

Pac-10 underrated, also, sky is blue
Published 8/20/2007 by Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly

Most Overrated and Underrated Teams Bases on College Football's Preseason Polls
Published 8/20/2007 at FanIQ Blog

Most Overrated and Underrated Teams Based on College Football's Preseason Polls
Published 8/20/2007 at FanIQ Blog

What do you want?
Published 8/20/2007 by tedmiller@seattlepi.com (Ted Miller) at Ted Miller's Sports Rant
... for three games ... no matter what happens, the glass will be half-full ... or half-empty, depending on your state of mind. ---Is Washington State the nation's most underrated football program? Is the Pac-10 the nation's most underrated conference? ESPN.com says ... apparently . ---Looks like ...

Pundit Roundup
Published 8/21/2007 by CFR at CollegeFootballResource.com
... Also: Preseason polls aren't perfect. There's some good takeaway material in there, but it's more trendwatching than definitive analysis. ...

Is Oregon Overrated?
Published 8/21/2007 by Dave <info@addictedtoquack.com> at Addicted To Quack: Front Page Posts

ESPN’s College football list of the most overrated and underrated teams of the past decade
Published 8/21/2007 by Jai Eugene at Loser with Socks

Being Overrated is Underrated
Published 8/24/2007 by BLV at Hi-Plains Drifter
... In case you missed it, Nebraska is the 5th most overrated team of the past 10 years. What does that mean? Not a whole hell of a lot but let's talk about it anyway. ...

The Northwest without the Sonics
Published 8/27/2007 by Jack Brown at Deceptively Quick

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