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2013 College Football Preseason Consensus Rankings

Did you have a chance to read every single preseason College Football magazine? Me too. If you add all these numbers together, the top 25 rankings and conference predictions are quite interesting.

By Dr. Frasier Crane, MD, Ph.D
Jerome Miron-US PRESSWIRE
Not that preseason polls matter (they don't), but it is interesting to see how the consensus thinks... #18 is about right for TCU from my perspective, but that projected Big 12 finish could be really wrong. Props to Stassen on putting this together:

National Top 25

Rank Team Total
Points		 Lindy Athlon TSN Phil
Steele		 USA
Today
(mag.)		 McIllece
Sports		 F'Ball
Out-
siders		 Arena
Fanatic		 Gold
Sheet		 Compu-
Picks		 Com
pughter
Ratings
1 Alabama 329 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1
2 Oregon 303 4 3 8 5 5 2 2 2 1 4 2
3 Ohio State 300 2 2 5 2 2 6 10 4 3 2 3
4 Georgia 269 6 4 12 9 4 9 9 3 4 5 7
5t South Carolina 244 9 5 3 14 11 13 14 6 7 10 5
5t Texas A&M 244 5 9 7 13 7 4 15 12 11 8 6
7 Stanford 236 3 7 2 11 3 - 3 5 5 - 4
8 Clemson 219 7 6 9 15 8 15 20 8 8 17 9
9 Oklahoma State 212 11 16 6 8 19 3 6 15 18 14 13
10 Texas 209 18 18 14 4 13 11 8 10 12 6 18
11 Florida State 206 13 15 18 3 17 5 19 14 10 7 14
12 Louisiana State 202 8 12 16 17 18 - 4 7 6 12 8
13 Notre Dame 199 14 8 10 10 14 20 13 20 20 3 10
14 Florida 192 12 13 4 18 10 - 5 13 16 16 11
15 Louisville 169 10 10 11 7 12 - - 9 14 22 15
16 Michigan 155 16 14 13 24 15 12 - 19 15 11 16
17 Nebraska 144 21 21 21 16 9 8 21 11 - 19 19
18 Texas Christian 134 22 20 - 21 16 18 11 17 22 9 20
19 Oklahoma 133 15 17 19 19 21 24 7 - 19 24 12
20 Boise State 130 17 11 15 - 6 - 12 - 9 - 17
21 Wisconsin 99 - 19 24 20 - 7 16 25 17 - 21
22 Southern Cal 89 25 - - 6 - 10 17 - - 15 24
23 Michigan State 60 20 - - 23 - 17 18 - - 25 23
24t Baylor 42 19 - 17 - - - - - 24 - 22
24t Fresno State 42 - 22 - 22 22 - - 16 - - -
24t Oregon State 42 - 25 23 - - 25 22 - - 18 -


Others receiving votes:

Rank Team Total
Points		 Lindy Athlon TSN Phil
Steele		 USA
Today
(mag.)		 McIllece
Sports		 F'Ball
Out-
siders		 Arena
Fanatic		 Gold
Sheet		 Compu-
Picks		 Com
pughter
Ratings
27 Arizona State 41 - 23 - - - 16 - 23 21 - -
28 Miami-Florida 38 24 - 22 25 - 21 25 - - - -
29 Mississippi 37 - - 25 - - - - 18 - 13 -
30 Northwestern 36 - 24 - - 20 - - - 13 - -
31t UCLA 27 23 - 20 - - - - - 23 - -
31t Virginia Tech 27 - - - 12 - - 23 - - - -
33 Georgia Tech 25 - - - - - 19 - 24 25 - -
34 Kansas State 22 - - - - 24 22 - - - - 25
35 Washington 20 - - - - - - - 22 - 20 -
36 Northern Illinois 18 - - - - 23 - - 21 - - -
37 North Caroolina 17 - - - - - 14 - - - - -
38 Vanderbilt 10 - - - - - - - - - 21 -
39t Cincinnati 8 - - - - - 23 - - - - -
39t Missouri 8 - - - - - - - - - 23 -
41 Penn State 7 - - - - - - 24 - - - -
42 Tulsa 6 - - - - 25 - - - - - -
43 unranked 0 - - - - - - - - - - -

Big XII

Rank Team Total
Points		 Lindy Athlon TSN Phil
Steele		 USA
Today
(mag.)		 McIllece
Sports		 F'Ball
Out-
siders		 Arena
Fanatic		 Gold
Sheet		 Compu-
Picks		 Com
pughter
Ratings
1 Oklahoma State 19 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 3 2
2 Texas 21 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 3
3 Oklahoma 29½ 2 2 3 3 3 3½ 2 3 3 4 1
4 Texas Christian 43½ 5 4 6 4 3 3½ 4 4 4 2 4
5 Baylor 58½ 4 6 4 5 6½ 6 5 6 5 6 5
6 Kansas State 60 6 5 5 6 5 5 6 5 6 5 6
7 Texas Tech 83 8 7 7 7 8 8 8 7 9 7 7
8 West Virginia 90½ 9 8 9 8 6½ 10 7 9 7 9 8
9 Iowa State 92 7 9 8 9½ 9½ 7 9 8 8 8 9
10 Kansas 108 10 10 10 9½ 9½ 9 10 10 10 10 10

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