Faculty of Faculty of Faculty: Oregon climbs, Texas Slides enters 3. Sunday

“The past is prologue. “ It has been more than 400 years since Shakespeare wrote that line in “The Tempest”, but it still true.

When it comes to AP Top 25 or survey coaches, we all frustrate when voters are too great too much in the last season and is washed aside what we actually saw in the field. Instead of throwing the pre-season expectations through the window, they refer to them as the gospel while rejecting early results as flukes.

The rat grades should be different. If public opinion polls reactive, surveys of power are predictive. They do not deal with what happened, but what is most likely to happen next. And when it comes to predicting the future, history is often the best guide. Teams – and people – are predictable. They repeat the patterns, only to the slightly different ways.

That is why a strong power rating must always be stuck in some history, but with the right balance of the past and present. We enter the season deeper, it will be worn more in 2025. Years. Last week she brought some movement, but this week brings a lot of change – and the clear upper level starts to form. The top five is firmly packed, with a noticeable fall behind them.

OUR NO. 1 remains, but there is a new number 2. And in the reflection of the current Sports Balance of power, 10 of our best 12 teams come to SEC or Big Ten. ACC has one. There is Our lady.

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He fell outside the top 12: Clemson, Michigan, Texas A & M