2009 Preseason College Football Rankings

Good stuff man…. Great compilation

I posted it on my forum to get you some more exposure

Brennan-

You guys will be the Clemson of last year and lay an egg. Okay, maybe not quite that bad. Perhaps the Missouri of last year. Or LSU. Or Auburn. It happens every year. There are at least three teams that are picked in the top 10, that are big time busts. That will be Ole Miss this year. Mark it in your book.

Watch out for the Huskers this year, may still be rebuilding but will definitely bust into the top 25. Probably take Notre Dame’s spot after they lose a couple of times (of course, I’ve seen ND teams that have 2-3 losses and are still rated above good undefeated teams).

Brennan my man, take deep breaths and get your feet back on the ground. Put out wharever you are smoking and get a grip. Firstly, Ole Miss is gonna be good…not that good. ‘Bama and The Bayou Bengals are gonna whoop you like a rented mule….in Oxford. Don’t be too hasty to put UT and Arkansas in your W column as well. And I’ll share somwthing else with ya….ya gonna have trouble in Columbia. Don’t forget last season, this average team strolled into Oxford…kicked your butts…and came home. Expect problems in Nashville as well. Good luck with that 10-2 my man

New York Yankees Blog –

I’ll agree with 1-4, but I don’t see how you can say Ole Miss will be a big-time bust. You didn’t see the Cotton Bowl last year, when #24 Ole Miss stroked the hell out of #7 Texas Tech? We didn’t lose much from last year – yeah I know we lost Michael Oher and Peria Jerry, but we’ve got the holes filled well – and we’ve got one of the top recruiting classes in the country. We’ve got one of the top 3 pure passers in the country in Jevan Snead, and if my observations at practice are correct, he’s even better than he was last year. We averaged 45 points/game over the last 4 games last year, and yet, we were known for our havoc-wreaking defense. I’m telling you now – we probably won’t end up in the top 5 like some of the rankings have us, but we won’t be lower than 15, I assure you. We’ve got an admittedly easy schedule: non-conference games feature Memphis, Southeastern Louisiana, UAB and Northern Arizona. Our conference schedule is about as easy as it can get in the SEC West: we pick up South Carolina, Vandy, and Tennessee from the East, playing at SC & Vandy and we get Tennessee at home, as well as home games against Bama, Arkansas and LSU. Our road games are: Memphis, SC, Vandy, Auburn, and Mississippi State. We should be 5-0 on the road. I don’t see us losing to anyone but Bama or maybe LSU at home, but neither of those games are failsafe wins for the visiting teams. We’ve got a schedule that should easily put us 10-2 or better. There’s no way we don’t end up top 15.

The Hatred for ND needs to stop here, all of you forget what the school stands for and where that money goes. The football program does alot for a school that does alot for society. Notre Dame will never have the return on investment other schools get because they still value education… The requirements keep convicts out that are great football players but still the school stands firm. there is something respectable about that. The basketball program suspended one of the best shooters in big east history for marijuana possesion. Show Me ONE other football school who has done that. Values and Moral behavior should say more to all the haters out there than this. WE do not have rapists and drug dealers and over look it because they are amazing athletes. Bottom line ND has the right to do what they do because they are ND. i would be willing to bet most of the haters out there couldnt have went to notre dame if they had 4 years tuition in cash because the school isnt like that. It takes brains and talent and being a human being… if the Ncaa had policies like that no one else would win a game

Good looking info on the preseason rankings. I am sure they will stay pretty close to your results when the AP is released. Here are the five teams that I feel will be in the preseason top 25, but will be big time busts.

1.North Carolina
2.Utah
3.Oregon
4.Pitt
5.Ole Miss

And yes, it is super lame that somehow Notre Dame continues to get such hype, before proving anything. Also, Boise State? Get real. Enough said.

How about a little love for the Cincinnati Bearcats. We have one of the best coaches in college football. Besides that we were the Big east Champs, lost very few people, and are looking even stronger at the Qb position(Because we were down to our 4th string Qb by the third game). Aside from that Ohio is one of the strongest high school football states and were are taking a lots of recruits away from Ohio state. Regardless of whether you agree with me or not if you see cincy on your teams schedule you should just prepare for a long tough game because we bring it every time.

What?? “ND hasn’t been very good for awhile.” “ND hasn’t been good for a couple of years.” You people need to get a grip on history or maybe you’re just newbies on the scene. ND has done absolutely nothing, Squat, Zero since 1988 when ND and Lou Holtz stole a national championship from Miami with a very bad call (remember the Cleveland Gary endzone call?). That’s 21 (TWENTY ONE) years!!!!!

The mainstream media claims sports need teams like Notre Dame and the Yankees to be important.

These teams bring higher ratings when doing well. This merely means that the casual fan (people who don’t normally follow the sport because they have no passion for it) tunes in to see what happens, usually just so they’ll have something to say when it comes up in conversation.

The sports don’t need any particular team to be good. The sports are great in and of themselves.

As a life-long fan of ND and the daughter of ND alum, I strongly disagree with some of these statements from posters. Let’s get over the anger of Notre Dame not joining a conference. There are several reasons for this,one being that by remaining independent, the revenue belongs to them. The school has accumulated a massive dowry by staying independent. There are plenty of Notre Dame haters out there which I know is based on sheer jealousy. ND’s grad rate with student athletes rivals only ivy league schools and a handful of other elite academic institutions such as Stanford and Duke. The only controversy I will invite next season is the firing of Weiss if he doesn’t produce some important wins and a better than mediocre season. ND has some ridiculous talent now (due to Weiss’s awesome recruiting which is ironic since he can’t seem to develop his recruits after he reels them in). In all seriousness, with the talent he will have this year, this is a nat’l championship caliber team. It’s up to Weiss to develop and foster that spirit.