Preseason College Football Coaches Poll

[Indy23]

Big XII gets five teams in the top 14. Six teams with first-place votes = wide open year.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm

1. Georgia (22)
2. Southern California (14)
3. Ohio State (14)
4. Oklahoma (3)
5. Florida (5)
6. LSU (3)
7. Missouri
8. West Virginia
9. Clemson
10. Texas
11. Auburn
12. Wisconsin
13. Kansas
14. Texas Tech
15. Virginia Tech
16. Arizona State
17. Brigham Young
18. Tennessee
19. Illinois
20. Oregon
21. South Florida
22. Penn State
23. Wake Forest
24. Michigan
25. Fresno State

[KC Shox]

Who cares! Gateway football baby - all the way! Go Drake!

[WuDrWu]

Who cares! Gateway football baby - all the way! Go Drake!

Drake's schedule may be better than KU's.

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

Who cares! Gateway football baby - all the way! Go Drake!

Drake isnt in the gateway

but valiant effort none the less

[ShockerFever]

These rankings, like all preseason rankings, will mean garbage in about 6 weeks.

Where's the Prince Purple Machine? :good:

[Shox151]

These rankings, like all preseason rankings, will mean garbage in about 6 weeks.

Where's the Prince Purple Machine? :good:

True remember Michigan V App State....preseason polls = worthless.

Actually almost all polls are nothing more than a weekly popularity contest for the BCS

[CharlieHog]

Taking a quick glance at last year's preseason and final polls, they are pretty similar. Obviously a couple of teams were underrated and a few overrated.

Michigan had 9 wins last year and won a bowl game even though they started off poorly.

Football polls are probably less meaningless than other sports polls. lol

[BenWSU]

I`m waiting for a bowl game between Florida & USC. :D

[Indy23]

Who cares! Gateway football baby - all the way! Go Drake!

Drake's schedule may be better than KU's.

Usually that might be true, but not this year. Good lord. Five teams in the top 25, including four in the top fourteen. KU has a much tougher road this season.

@ #21 South Florida
@ #4 Oklahoma
#10 Texas
#14 Texas Tech
@ #7 Mizzou ("neutral" game)

We also have a road game to Nebraska, who will be a little miffed about that whole 76-point thing last year.

[CharlieHog]

Arkansas has a brutal schedule too...a stretch of 4 games is Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Auburn.

[newshock1234]

I really think, if College football is gonna continue to have this ridiculous system in place and not have a playoff, then they really should consider holding off on the polls until like week 5 or 6.

[rrshock]

Who cares! Gateway football baby - all the way! Go Drake!

Drake's schedule may be better than KU's.

Usually that might be true, but not this year. Good lord. Five teams in the top 25, including four in the top fourteen. KU has a much tougher road this season.

@ #21 South Florida
@ #4 Oklahoma
#10 Texas
#14 Texas Tech
@ #7 Mizzou ("neutral" game)

We also have a road game to Nebraska, who will be a little miffed about that whole 76-point thing last year.

If there were ever a reason to run the score up on someone, I believe that is it. I'd expect a good 'ol coutry ass whoopin from the Huskers this year.

[SubGod22]

Didn't Nebraska practice running up the score back when they were actually pretty good?

[newshock1234]

Didn't Nebraska practice running up the score back when they were actually pretty good?

no, they were using their 4th string in the 3rd quarter and still nobody could stop them

[Indy23]

From 1971 to 2003, the combined score between Nebraska and KU was 1,515-244. Osborne ran up the score on us every year. Certainly their being a national powerhouse and our crappiness didn't help, but civility was completely absent from those maulings. KU owes Nebraska about 30 more epic beatdowns like last year and 2005.