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Josh Pate Lists Miami #6 on his Early Top 25

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P-Tizzle said:
CJ Carr (who is an absolute baller).
They return nearly all of their defense including the secondary.

Although they lose both Love and Price, Williams is returning and he averaged over 9 yards per carry for them. They also add some interesting portal guys including DT Brewu.

on a team that finished with two losses and another very manageable schedule outside of playing us at home in November (possible bad weather in South Bend.

I would def put them in the top 5 preseason for next year.

1. Miami
2. Oregon
3. ND
4. Indiana
5. Texas

With OSU, Tech, UGA, BYU, and A&M rounding out the top 10
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Oregon and Lanning are vastly overrated.

Oregon has a 76% blue-chip ratio according to rivals. This is the highest blue-chip ratio since money is no object. See attached link:

www.on3.com

2026 Team Ranking Football Breakdown

www.on3.com www.on3.com

Oregon is comprised of soft people.

I would love to play them in the CFP.
 
Oregon, Georgia, Texas and Miami are most talented teams. OSU and Indiana will be down from last year as they lose too much and do not have the horses behind them. ND is top 10 but not top 5. Other teams all have holes.
 
P-Tizzle said:
CJ Carr (who is an absolute baller).
They return nearly all of their defense including the secondary.

Although they lose both Love and Price, Williams is returning and he averaged over 9 yards per carry for them. They also add some interesting portal guys including DT Brewu.

on a team that finished with two losses and another very manageable schedule outside of playing us at home in November (possible bad weather in South Bend.

I would def put them in the top 5 preseason for next year.

1. Miami
2. Oregon
3. ND
4. Indiana
5. Texas

With OSU, Tech, UGA, BYU, and A&M rounding out the top 10
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CJ Carr is cool, don’t think he’s an absolute baller though. Williams avg 9ypc against syracuse, Stanford, navy, and arkansas. I think their portal class is about as good as anyone in the top 10, they cancel each other out.

What did they do to improve overall? Another year in their defense and 2nd season starting for CJ Carr. That’s not enough for me to think they improved from last season. Which is what they need to do for me to think they r a certified top 5 team. I think the best teams r Miami, Indiana, Oregon, and Texas, after that I have no idea. There schedule is easy so they’ll be a playoff team.
 
Notre Dame has a really good team. They uncharacteristically loaded up on DL in the Portal, which is smart given their weakness up front last year.

The question for them is whether they can replace the big-play ability of Love and Price. Explosiveness has been their weakness in the past and they lost their most dangerous players.
 
JayCane20 said:
Holmon Wiggins and Lyle Hemphill is probably the worst coordinator duo in the top 25 conversation (probably the top 30ish teams in the country)

Elko calling the defense gives them a slight leg up from where they could be. But I think they fail pretty badly this year
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Agree but my post was referring to UT
 
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JayCane20 said:
So we're questioning Miami's OL but not ND's who had 2 guys declare early and starting center had ACL surgery in late October?

I think they lack talent at WR, drop off at TE and obviously RB, a mediocre DL, good LBs but the best player had ACL surgery in October or November, and a good secondary but still majorly overrated because of Leonard Moore. Gray and everyone they took out of the portal are mediocre.
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Agreed

I honestly started typing up an annoyed response at this but was like ya know what…good. When we BTA them again it’ll just be better this way

It’s goofy
 
twes.305 said:
CJ Carr is cool, don’t think he’s an absolute baller though. Williams avg 9ypc against syracuse, Stanford, navy, and arkansas. I think their portal class is about as good as anyone in the top 10, they cancel each other out.

What did they do to improve overall? Another year in their defense and 2nd season starting for CJ Carr. That’s not enough for me to think they improved from last season. Which is what they need to do for me to think they r a certified top 5 team. I think the best teams r Miami, Indiana, Oregon, and Texas, after that I have no idea. There schedule is easy so they’ll be a playoff team.
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^this! Let's see how good Carr is when teams aren't loading the box to stop Love. He is a good QB but so is every other QB of a top 10 team. We have a more dynamic QB in Mensah.
 
West Coast Cane said:
Oregon and Lanning are vastly overrated.

Oregon has a 76% blue-chip ratio according to rivals. This is the highest blue-chip ratio since money is no object. See attached link:

www.on3.com

2026 Team Ranking Football Breakdown

www.on3.com www.on3.com

Oregon is comprised of soft people.

I would love to play them in the CFP.
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Pate is a huge Dan Lanning fan. He hyped them all last season, too
 
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twes.305 said:
CJ Carr is cool, don’t think he’s an absolute baller though. Williams avg 9ypc against syracuse, Stanford, navy, and arkansas. I think their portal class is about as good as anyone in the top 10, they cancel each other out.

What did they do to improve overall? Another year in their defense and 2nd season starting for CJ Carr. That’s not enough for me to think they improved from last season. Which is what they need to do for me to think they r a certified top 5 team. I think the best teams r Miami, Indiana, Oregon, and Texas, after that I have no idea. There schedule is easy so they’ll be a playoff team.
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Oh you mean the guy (Williams) who played behind two superstar RBs excelled when he got his opportunity to play? Wow, you got me there. Go away
 
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