Three overrated and three underrated teams from preseason media SEC poll
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Overrated SEC teams in preseason poll: Missouri
I could essentially copy and paste most everything I just said about Ole Miss and implement it here about the Tigers. Again, I think this will be a decent team. They're not the most talented if you look at composite ratings of the players as recruits (outside of Williams Nwaneri and Luther Burden, of course), but their schedule does them a lot of favors.
I think most teams could pencil in a 4-0 start when the competition is Murray State, Buffalo, Boston College, and Vanderbilt. The Tigers then get an off week before a trip to College Station, after which they... visit UMass? Yes, that's one of Mizzou's road games, somehow.
The Tigers have games at A&M and Alabama and a home contest against OU. In every other game, they should be favorites—and even could be against the Aggies and Sooners. It's readily conceivable, though, that they could lose each of those three games. The Tigers could finish 9-3—or even 10-2—and really not be a top 25-caliber team. I'm a little skeptical on them overall, but I think their predicted sixth-place finish is a function of schedule more than anything else.