Re: Preseason Most Underrated/Overrated NCAAF Teams since 1989
I like the idea of this chart, but for it to be useful it needs to incoporate 1-117 (or however many D-1's there are now). It fails, for instance, to note how severely underrated someone like this season's TCU team was at the beginning of the season.
TCU was, by most preseason power rankings, somewhere right in the middle of D-1's pack -- about 60 in most that I saw. They are currently #15 and will move up farther if they win their bowl game. That's underrating them by close to FIFTY spots, yet this list doesn't account for that.
It also, as another poster mentioned, does not account for how far a team can fall during a given season, either. This list makes it hard to account for HUGE discrepancies between a team's expectations and eventual results.
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