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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roadkill" data-source="post: 1100080" data-attributes="member: 1555">We’re Georgia Tech, we can do that!Seriously, I suspect that our history of inconsistency makes poll voters reluctant to rank us – we don’t get the benefit of ranking inertia from the prior year like many of the perennial powers, and if we are a good team one year, we tend to follow it up with a lackluster year. I think this hurt us in 2016, when we had 9 wins, including 3 over SEC teams, but were outside the rankings at the end of the season.Being viewed as not having elite talent is another headwind. We probably need to put together a series of 8-10-win seasons to change this mindset.</blockquote>