You may want to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

From 2010 to 2013, South Carolina finished ranked higher than their preseason rank. Explain to me, then, how that is considered crashing and burning in the polls. Most people would call that being underrated to start a season.

Now, in 2014 they did receive a high ranking based on the 4 straight seasons of finishing ranked, including three straight top 10 finishes. And if they'd just held onto 3 late 4th quarter double digit leads, they'd have finished 10-3 and ranked. But they didn't, which earned them a non-ranked finish. But even with that said, the stats clearly prove your statement to be very ill-informed.