The Blue Workhorse Preseason NCAA Rankings
The college football season officially starts tonight. North Carolina State will be taking on The Old Ball Coach Steve Spurrier and his South Carolina Gamecocks; Oregon State opens with Pac-10 conference for Stanford; and the first ranked team, Wake Forest, will play as well.
But before the season gets under way, we give you the official Top 25 from The Blue Workhorse, and later, we will give you our predictions for conference champions, the Heisman trophy winner, and maybe even a surprise team or two that may be flying under the radar now only to be clearly on the BCS scene at the end of the season.
Just as the ESPN or USA Today polls are compiled, we’ve polled our 4 top college football writers and given each vote a point value (#1 ranking = 25 points, #2 ranking = 24 points ….. #24 ranking = 2 points, #25 ranking = 1 point). We then tallied all of the points and tabulated the top 25 teams.
We’ve got the national powerhouses, the contenders, the possible BCS spoilers, and 25 teams that each want to hoist the glass football at the end of the season, so welcome to the first edition of The Blue Workhorse’s weekly NCAA football rankings:
(Thanks go out to James from NE Patriots Draft for assistance with the graphic and to Button Generator for the great buttons.)
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| #1 | USC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 96 |
| #2 | Florida | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 92 |
| #3 | Oklahoma | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 89 |
| #4 | Ohio State | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 87 |
| #5 | Georgia | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 86 |
| #6 | LSU | 9 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 77 |
| #7 | Missouri | 6 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 72 |
| #8 | Auburn | 8 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 66 |
| #9 | Texas | 14 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 65 |
| #9 | Clemson | 10 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 65 |
| #11 | West Virginia | 7 | - | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| #12 | Wisconsin | 15 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 50 |
| #13 | Tennessee | 19 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 47 |
| #14 | Texas Tech | 12 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 43 |
| #15 | Arizona State | 18 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 40 |
| #16 | BYU | 13 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 34 |
| #17 | Virginia Tech | 17 | 14 | 14 | - | 33 |
| #18 | South Florida | 20 | - | 15 | 13 | 30 |
| #19 | Kansas | 11 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 27 |
| #20 | Illinois | 16 | 16 | - | 24 | 22 |
| #21 | Wake Forest | 23 | 25 | 17 | - | 13 |
| #21 | Oregon | 21 | - | 24 | 20 | 13 |
| #21 | Oregon State | 16 | - | - | 23 | 13 |
| #21 | Rutgers | - | 13 | - | - | 13 |
| #25 | Pittsburgh | 25 | - | - | 16 | 11 |
Others receiving votes: Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Penn State, Fresno State, Tulsa, Navy, Michigan, Kentucky, Boise State, South Carolina
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