- These are not our rankings. They are a compilation and average of the following preseason polls: Athlon's, Lindy's, Phil Steele, Rivals.com, SI.com and CFN.com.
- Why were these used? These sources ranked all teams from 1-119. Polls that included only a top 25 and "others receiving votes" were not considered. The goal is to track all 119 teams.
- I will use this as the beginning point for the CUOrange Power Poll that will be updated each week throughout the season.
- First place votes are in parenthesis after the school name.
- As we start our power rankings each team will be assigned a power index that will reflect their wins/losses and strength of schedule. No other measures are used in our power index.
With all that said, here we go:
1. Ohio State (1)
2. Georgia (1) tie with USC
2. USC (1) tie with Georgia
4. Florida (2)
5. Oklahoma
6. LSU
7. Missouri
8. Clemson
9. Auburn
10.West Virginia
11.Texas
12.Wisconsin
13.Texas Tech
14.Kansas
15.BYU
16.Tennessee
17.Oregon
18.South Florida
19.Arizona State
20.Penn State
21.Virginia Tech
22.Illinois
23.Pittsburgh
24.Wake Forest
25.Florida State
The conference breakdown goes like this: SEC (5), Big 12 (5), ACC (4), Big 10 (4), PAC 10 (3), Big East (3), MWC (1).
Other notables in our initial rankings: 26. Alabama. 27. South Carolina, 49. Texas A&M, 51. Notre Dame.
There is a precipitous drop off after numbers 1-6. The top 6 are consistently ranked higher across the polls where the teams immediately following had some ups and downs in the different polls creating a wide schism.
Tomorrow I'll rank the conferences.
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