Monday, July 23, 2007

Bang a Gong | by Jay

Stassen's got his annual preseason ranking summary up and running. With seven different precincts -- err, magazines -- reporting so far, Southern Cal is your consensus preseason #1 for 2007. Irish opponents are highlighted in yellow.

Top 25

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Lindy Sure-
fire
TSN Phil
Steele
S&S CBS
1 Southern Cal 210 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Louisiana State 200 3 2 2 2 2 4 2
3 West Virginia 191 5 4 3 4 4 2 4
4 Michigan 186 8 3 4 3 5 5 3
5 Texas 177 2 5 5 6 6 8 8
6 Florida 161 6 11 9 5 14 6 5
7 Virginia Tech 159 9 8 6 7 9 9 10
8 Wisconsin 157 4 6 17 8 16 3 6
9 Louisville 155 13 9 7 9 7 10 7
10 Oklahoma 137 7 10 - 13 3 7 9
11 Ohio State 116 12 13 14 17 15 15 15
12 UCLA 109 15 22 11 10 21 17 12
13 California 106 11 12 20 12 - 11 14
14 Penn State 97 17 - 12 15 10 13 22
15 Tennessee 95 20 7 15 18 25 21 16
16 Georgia 92 16 17 - 14 11 16 20
17 Texas Christian 86 25 15 8 20 23 23 17
18 Auburn 78 21 23 23 16 - 14 11
19 Nebraska 75 18 25 10 23 22 20 24
20 Rutgers 73 10 16 - 19 - 19 18
21 Hawaii 62 19 19 18 - 12 - 25
22 Florida State 60 - 21 24 11 8 - -
23 Arkansas 54 - 14 - - - 12 13
24 Texas A&M 51 23 18 22 - 20 - 21
25 Boise State 37 - - 21 22 - 25 19

others receiving votes
Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Lindy Sure-
fire
TSN Phil
Steele
S&S CBS
26 Oregon 28 - - 16 - 18 - -
27 Alabama 26 - - 19 - 17 - -
28t Miami-Florida 25 24 - 13 - - - -
28t Missouri 25 - - - - 19 18 -
30 South Carolina 18 - - - - 13 - -
31t Georgia Tech 17 14 - - - - - -
31t South Florida 17 - - - 21 24 - -
33 Oregon State 16 22 - - - - 24 -
34 Boston College 15 - 24 - - - - 23
35 Wake Forest 11 - 20 - - - - -
36 Clemson 9 - - - - - 22 -
37 Southern Miss 7 - - - 24 - - -
38t Brigham Young 6 - - - 25 - - -
38t Oklahoma State 6 - - 25 - - - -
40 unranked 0 - - - - - - -

Stassen's still adding magazines to his rankings, so add a bookmark and check back as the season gets closer. Or, hell: go explore his site right now. It's chock full of statistical goodness.

Who's too high? Who's too low? And where's ND ranked, anyway? Lying in the weeds, apparently...