2018 Pre-Season Coaches Poll

Being an "others receiving votes" but only having 2 votes doesn't make me think wins in our first 3 games (where we should be the prohibitive favorite in each) will move the needle much. There are 12 teams in the ORV category who have more votes than us, and if they all have manageable early schedules at least some of them will stay ahead of us.

In all honesty, I wouldn't expect us to legitimately approach the top-25 unless lots of teams lose or until we show how good (or bad) we are with the stretch of Furman and Samford. My guess is we would have to be no worse than 4-1 at that point to find ourselves in the coaches poll. It is fun to think about it, but at this stage I hope we don't lay an egg in any of those first 3 games - we need to make sure we win all the games we are supposed to, and then find a way to close out another couple.