/r/CFB Poll

User	Rank	Reason
TotalEconomist	3	I drank the kool aid at your house, Zerosa
eclectic_tastes	10
Daigotsu	12
bread_buddy	13
TheTeamCubed	13
mickeyquicknumbers	15	Texas was somehwere between a 7-5 and 8-4 quality team that was coached down to a 5-7 season; and a 7-5 team that returns 18 starters and has consistently recruited at a top-10 level feels fine at 14th. I think if you control for Strong's hapless coordinator-shuffling and on field coaching├â┬é├é┬á you're looking at a team that very well should be ranked preseason. 8 returning starters on offense - sure one of them was D'onta Foreman, whose absence I think will make less of an impact than most people would think. Add in Tom Herman who just spent consecutive seasons coaching Houston to better records than their team was realistically capable of, and yeah - I think this is a very 9-3 looking Texas team.
RegulatorRWF	16
THECrew42	17
vanburen1845	17
CockADoodleBOOM	18
kermic_the_frog	18
nickknx865	18
surreptitioussloth	18
blahblehblahwhoru	19
gohuskies	19	5-7 rabble rabble rabble, whatever, they're more talented than almost everyone and have actual good coaching.
Lex_Ludorum	19
TanzaniaMagic	19
TimeBroken	19
buckeyegold	20
PalmettoFace	20
uwbjb	20
Wurst_Law	20
xelphin	20
alextoyalex	21
Bill3ffinMurray	21
noahthearc	21	Promising young coach with talent behind him, could make a splash in his first year.
SpeedxKills	21
UNC_Samurai	21
chceman	22
conchobor	22
corundum9	22
esoterik	22
justsaynotoreddit	22
Nathanael-Greene	22
retnuh101	22
TDenverFan	22
3RDnKING	23
AGSattack	23
BabyBladder	23
ExternalTangents	23
G-manP	23
grjohnst	23
Luriker	23
seaotter2	23
WhiteBaseCoat	23	Texas and Oregon are my "talented teams with a ton of experience and great first-year coaches." They're down low because A. they had pretty bad records last year and B. again, these are first year coaches, but I'd be surprised if at least one doesn't make a nice leap forward (though I honestly think both will, that's why I ranked them). I went with Texas over Oregon because they have more talent and had a better record (so their returning experience should mean more).
Ghost_of_Dude	24	Ah yes, the most controversial of choices. But let's set our prejudices aside for a moment and analyze this objectively. They lost to Kansas last year, which was obviously one of the program's most embarrassing moments, and was completely inexcusable. They were also 5 points away from downing Oklahoma and 4 points away from beating WVU. The point is that the talent was clearly there, and much of that talent returns. The awful losses were coaching failures. Now they have Tom Herman, who OC'd his way to a title just three years ago at Ohio State and had Houston in the national spotlight in just his second year. I firmly believe that Texas will be contending for a national title before the end of the decade. Herman will be able to take the talent already on this team and turn it into a winning season. Ranking the Longhorns in the top 25 based on their talent and coaching ability already demonstrated is perfectly reasonable. This ain't Charlie Strong's Texas anymore.
HarbingerOfFun	24
HelioOne	24
orangeslash	24
Pikachu1989	24
plannedsickdays	24
stripes361	24	Texas was loaded with talent under Charlie Strong but could never put it together. The big question in Austin is whether new darling Tom Herman will crash and burn like his heralded predecessor. This year may be a rough transition for the former Houston coach.
TaylorLeprechaun	24
topher3003	24
52hoova	25
AaronRodgers16	25
aubieismyhomie	25
CambodianDrywall	25
cmdrcaboose2	25
DFWTooThrowed	25
doormatt26	25
jmac_21	25	I think the Texas players will rally around their new coach Tom Herman. They have the talent already on campus.
Knightro2011	25	The Hook 'em Horns hand signal was introduced at 1955 during a pep rally, by head cheerleader at the time Harley Clark Jr. The hand signal was later recognized as Top College Hand Signal by Sports Illustrated.
lk6	25	Texas is back!
nemoran	25
Our-Gardian-Angel	25	Tom Herman is in Austin and expectations are sky high for the Longhorns moving forward. Year 1 could even see them contending in the Big 12 depending on how QB Shane Buechele and a young Texas offense comes along.
relax_on_the_mat	25	├é┬áI probably shouldn't have Texas ranked, but I really liked what I saw from Buechele last year and I think he and the rest of the team are going to improve under Herman.├é┬á
sideoutpar	25
TheOrangeKush81	25	"texas is back"
typicaliconoclast	25

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