ESPN Power Rankings

[HawKCP]

NCAA College Football Power Rankings Preseason - ESPN

Highlights (as far as I'm concerned):

Hawks come in at #9 overall...which I think is about right.

Ivan Maisel, ESPN.com Senior Writer picks the Hawks 2nd...probably a little high.

Bruce Feldman is clearly an idiot - one of three voters (20 total) who have the Badgers picked ahead of the Hawks and he has Wisky 3rd. The others are Pat Forde...and I won't even get into his intelligence level...and Dari Nowkhah...and even his name is dumb. Plus Nowkhah picked TCU 2nd...clearly he was hopped up on Robotussin or something.

Rittenberg...who's opinion I probably value most at ESPN when it comes to college football has the Hawks #9. He also has Boise St ahead of Ohio St...which I found interesting.

Ohio St only received two 1st place votes...Boise St received 1 and Alabama got the rest.

 

[racerhawk]

Thanks for the recap.

I don't think Alabama wins it two years in a row. That's tough to do.

 

[SDK46]

To rank Iowa anywhere below where they finished last year (#7) is just stupid.

Show me any team, much less three, ranked lower than Iowa at the end of last year, and has more coming back than Iowa (QB, WRs, defense, special teams) to warrant Iowa being pushed down 2-3 positions.

What is truly scary is it's these people who VOTE for BCS placings later on in the year.

Time, way past time, for a playoff, based upon W-L records.

 

[herkyattack]

To rank Iowa anywhere below where they finished last year (#7) is just stupid.

Show me any team, much less three, ranked lower than Iowa at the end of last year, and has more coming back than Iowa (QB, WRs, defense, special teams) to warrant Iowa being pushed down 2-3 positions.

What is truly scary is it's these people who VOTE for BCS placings later on in the year.

Time, way past time, for a playoff, based upon W-L records.

you do it based only on w/l the non-conference portion becomes a joke. Welcome UNI, N. Colorado, Akron, and San Jose St. to Kinnick.

 

[SDK46]

you do it based only on w/l the non-conference portion becomes a joke. Welcome UNI, N. Colorado, Akron, and San Jose St. to Kinnick.

Not necessarily.

It's an easy fix actually.

#1--You mandate the exact same # of intra-league games for each conference, whether it's 8 or 9. Everybody schedules cupcakes now, just some more than others. Level the playing field.

#2--You only allow one 1-AA opponent, say, every two years, or at most, one a year. But you make everybody do it the same way. Level the playing field.

Level the rules = W/L become very very relevent, as opposed to, truly, know-nothing sports writers and coaches who let assistants vote.