COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Lindy's Preseason Top 25

[KTJ]

Texas is starting to become the consensus #2 in several pre-season polls. Some Longhorn fans like it....others definitely do not. Everyone knows that preseason polls mean nothing but this is for fun.

Also, it's good to have all 3 Texas schools starting to get in the top 25. I would take out Penn State and put in UTEP.



LINDY'S PRESEASON TOP 25

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Michigan
4. Florida
5. Oklahoma
6. Tennessee
7. Ohio State
8. Florida St.
9. LSU
10. Va. Tech
11. Louisville
12. Miami
13. Purdue
14. Georgia
15. Iowa
16. Texas A&M
17. Auburn
18. Oregon
19. Pittsburgh
20. Boston Col.
21. Texas Tech
22. Alabama
23. Fresno St.
24. UCLA
25. Penn St.

[Manck]

4 of the 6 teams in the Big XII South in the top 25?!? Rough conference. Hope that it lives up to the hype.

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by Manck
4 of the 6 teams in the Big XII South in the top 25?!? Rough conference. Hope that it lives up to the hype.

And the only reason OSU isn't in there is because they have to play the rest of the conference. Put them in Conference-USA... heck, put them in the Big East... and they're a top-15 team.

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by KTJ
Texas is starting to become the consensus #2 in several pre-season polls. Some Longhorn fans like it....others definitely do not. Everyone knows that preseason polls mean nothing but this is for fun.

I think the Horns go to the NC this year.

Oh, and everyone seems to be really high on Florida this year. I know Meyer's there and they have quite a bit of talent, but #4?????

[AggieJohn]

i know russ, i think urban does good however i don't feel like he'll bring them to prominence right away

[3afan]

good to see Penn St back up there .............

[NHSRattler60]

I look for 2 teams to do better this year than last year.

1. TCU. No, not because I have a teammate going there, but because of the schedual difficulty and the major team reconstruction they've been doing. We shall see.

2. Either Rice or U of H. Both teams have been doing better, but not better enough to earn a high ranking bowl game. This year I think will be a ear of changes. Houston should step up somehow and say "Hey, lets get a winning college program please, were tired of looking bad do College Station, Dallas, and Austin."

Granted Rice is an Ivy League college so academics count, but if they can win a Baseball title, football isn't too far out of reach. As for U of H, I just like pulling for the underdog.

Some other Colleges I'd like to see do better: Purdue, Notre Dame, LSU, Texas Tech, Ball State, North Carolina, and of coarse, I want Texas to exceed their ranking.

[We're Back]

Rice is not an Ivy League school, they are in the WAC but moving to C-USA

[KTJ]

What's funny is that Zook had good players. I think they should have given him another year. But I read an article about Meyer at his spring practices and he was pretty intense...something the UF players weren't used to.

I wouldn't be surprised to see UF up there. It will certainly be interesting to see the UF/USC game, should they play this year.

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by We're Back
Rice is not an Ivy League school, they are in the WAC but moving to C-USA

LOL... got it backwards. They're CUSA now, moving to the WAC beginning in the fall.

The Ivy League consists of:
Dartmouth
Harvard
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale
Penn
and Columbia

They're a D I-AA Conference.... don't participate in the postseason in football... only up in the Northeast. Rice is a I-A school in Southeast Texas. Great academics, but more of a Stanford than a Yale.

[Astrosdawg07]

Originally posted by big daddy russ
LOL... got it backwards. They're CUSA now, moving to the WAC beginning in the fall.

Wrong, they had been in the WAC but have now moved into CUSA!

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by Astrosdawg07
Wrong, they had been in the WAC but have now moved into CUSA!

Nah, they've been in C-USA the past few years. Next year they'll be facing off against the Wyomings, Utahs, and San Diego States of the world. It'll be a tough conference with TCU moving in.

TCU's 2005 schedule, includes conference games...

[sicem74]

BAYLOR SHOULD SWITCH WITH TCU THEN BAYLOR WOULD WIN MORE GAMES, IN FOOTBALL THEN U WOULD SEE THEM IN THE TOP 25

[AggieJohn]

Originally posted by 3afan
good to see Penn St back up there .............

that's just hype from recieving the Derrick Williams and Justin King...these guys are both 6.1 on the RR rating that rivals has...which is defined as a Franchise Player; considered one of the elite prospects in the country, generally among the nation's top 25 players overall; deemed to have excellent pro potential; high-major prospect

it'll phase out soon

[KTJ]

Originally posted by big daddy russ
Nah, they've been in C-USA the past few years. Next year they'll be facing off against the Wyomings, Utahs, and San Diego States of the world. It'll be a tough conference with TCU moving in.

TCU's 2005 schedule, includes conference games...

Russ, Rice is, and has been for a while, in the WAC...not C-USA.