Tag: preseason rankings

  • College Football: 2017 Preseason Rankings

    College Football: 2017 Preseason Rankings

    No surprising in the first poll, the preseason one, for the 2017 college football season. Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State and USC seem like the favorites to reach the College Football Playoffs, while defending national champions Clemson, Big Ten champions Penn State and the Big 12 champions Oklahoma are hoping to prove everyone wrong over the course of this fall.

  • College Football – 2014 Preseason Rankings

    College Football – 2014 Preseason Rankings

    A College Football season can’t begin with a preseason poll, that doesn’t surprise anyone by putting Florida State as the number one team heading into the 2014 season, although Alabama, Oregon and Oklahoma have also been getting consideration as potential national champions when this is all over.

  • College Football – Way Too Early 2014 Preseason Rankings

    It’s impossible to predict what happens in College Football season, but it’s always worth giving it a shot. The new playoff system means no more BCS rankings, and maybe even more significance in public perception for the AP Poll and its top 25.

  • College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition

    College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition

    Every season there’s another example of how preseason polls are quite terrible at predicting who are actually the best teams in college football. Florida State, undefeated and number one heading into the conference championship game, were outside the top 10. Florida, who finish the season at 4-8 were the number 10 team in the nation when the polls came out.

  • 2013 College Football Season – Preseason Coaches Rankings

    2013 College Football Season – Preseason Coaches Rankings

    Preseason polls mean nothing, as last year taught us. And yet it’s no surprise that Alabama are close to consensus number one preseason pick to win the national title, leading five teams in the top 13 from the SEC according to the coaches around the league.

  • Too Early College Football 2013 Rankings

    Are things going to be different in 2013? Who knows. Still, it’s always fun speculation, and it’s not a really bold assumption saying Alabama will be the early season favorites; Texas A&M will be the closest thing to a challenger in the SEC, while Oregon, Stanford and Ohio State will also have hopes of winning a national title.

  • Preseason College Football Rankings – Worth Anything?

    The preseason college football rankings for the 2012 season came out this week and guess what – LSU, who led the rankings for most of last season and Alabama, #2 for most of last season and the national champions, took the top two spots once again. SEC dominance doesn’t change, it just got stronger. Problems is these preseason rankings usually don’t mean much.