Final AP Poll Projections

[cajunhawk]

Napier vs Sark after Dark to kick off next year. I like our chances in that game. Like em a lot more if Napier starts to use Lewis like a mobile QB first, instead of a passing QB. We have a chance, this team is good enough to go into Texas and beat a new head coach.

[DieHard 1280]

I'm going to "predict" us at 24th to start the season, but I'm wanting to be positive.

I think the realistic window likely is 24 to 29. Those six slots. Even if it's 29, it's higher than we've every been preseason, and even starting that low, an upset in Austin (I'm thinking we'll be a 11 to 14 point underdog) would vault us immediately into the Top 25. No question.

Bottom line next September, whether we start the season ranked or not, our performance against UT will determine our ranking going into week 2. Start the season ranked and lose, we're probably out unless we lose on a last second FG or something similar. We beat them and we WILL be ranked.

BUT, I agree that being ranked to start the season would be GREAT and very much deserved. If so, beating Texas in Austin would likely catapult us into the top 15-20 range.

[CajunEXPRESS]

You can bet your bottom dollar AP sport writers care about UT. Like the Dallas Cowboys, Notre Damn almost everybody loves or hates them, but aren’t uninterested. They write opinion pieces about the Longhorns. So yeah that might influence how they vote their AP top 25. Of course it’s not some highly thought out intellectual process, it’s totally bias.

[covcaj]

You can bet your bottom dollar AP sport writers care about UT. Like the Dallas Cowboys, Notre Damn almost everybody loves or hates them, but aren’t uninterested. They write opinion pieces about the Longhorns. So yeah that might influence how they vote their AP top 25. Of course it’s not some highly thought out intellectual process, it’s totally bias.

I agree.