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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.

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 2 3 3 4 1
4 Texas Christian 43½ 5 4 6 4 3 4 4 4 2 4
5 Baylor 58½ 4 6 4 5 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 10 7 9 7 9 8
9 Iowa State 92 7 9 8 7 9 8 8 8 9
10 Kansas 108 10 10 10 9 10 10 10 10 10