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(Link courtesy of Sparkscoug on eDuck)

http://preseason.stassen.com/over-under/all-teams.html

Based on final ranking vs preseason polls... Michigan and Notre Dame made the bottom 2 (ie: Most over-rated).

Kind of a strange statistic, because the good teams will always have high expectations and if they don't meet that threshold, then they will be considered "overrated." Basically, there will never be a time where top ranked teams will be considered underrated.

Tennessee & USC in the bottom 10 also

I can not speak as to Tennessee but as far as USC.. they have spent a lot of time in top 5 and was a time spent a lot of time at #1 so as TK said any time ranked that high it is easy to be overrated because to even finish season ranked 2nd.. if ranked 1st in preseason would be looked at as oveerated given these rankings. It is an intriguing statistic but in some aspects would rather be ranked high for numerous years running even if it means some years fall below where ranked initially. USC still gets the big time recruits despite being on that statistic.

Interesting idea to rank teams on this criteria. But, I don't think it's quite right. The differences should be averaged rather than cumulative. As it is, a team that was only in the top rankings a few times has no possibility of appearing as over or under rated, simply because they haven't been toward the top as many times. That shouldn't be factoring into these results.