2007 Pre-Season AP Poll Released

[bulls96go]

opportunity knocks...

[E.T.]

1 Southern California (62) 11-2 1622 4  

2 LSU (2) 11-2 1511 3  

3 West Virginia (1) 11-2 1396 10  

4 Texas 10-3 1375 13  

5 Michigan 11-2 1371 8  

6 Florida 13-1 1276 1  

7 Wisconsin 12-1 1192 7  

8 Oklahoma 11-3 1166 11  

9 Virginia Tech 10-3 1148 19  

10 Louisville 12-1 1031 6  

11 Ohio State 12-1 876 2  

12 California 10-3 790 14  

13 Georgia 9-4 782 23  

14 UCLA 7-6 605 NR  

15 Tennessee 9-4 571 25  

16 Rutgers 11-2 560 12  

17 Penn State 9-4 542 NR  

18 Auburn 11-2 519 9  

19 Florida State 7-6 392 NR  

20 Nebraska 9-5 377 NR  

21 Arkansas 10-4 376 15  

22 TCU 11-2 283 22  

23 Hawaii 11-3 256 NR  

24 Boise State 13-0 187 5  

25 Texas A&M 9-4 162 NR  

Others Receiving Votes: Missouri 128, Georgia Tech 94, Boston College 75, Oregon 73, South Carolina 69, Miami, Fla. 69, Alabama 66, Oregon State 42, Wake Forest 40, South Florida 28, Arizona State 17, BYU 14, Southern Miss 12, Notre Dame 11, Virginia 7, Clemson 6, Oklahoma State 3, Texas Tech 2, Houston 1, Kentucky 1, N.C. State 1, Purdue 1.  

Week 1 Games that could help us move up:

FSU - Clemson

Missouri - Illinois

Ga Tech - Notre Dame

Boston College - Wake Forest

Oregon - Houston

[Economics_Nerd82]

Ranked higher than Notre Dame is great! I did a double take!

[USF Colby]

Everybody is #1 right now in my book as I said in the other topic about AP Rankings. How do we know USC is the number 1 team anyway? Given their entire roster is full of players who were among the top ranked of their respective positions when they were recruited but potential doesn't mean anything. I'm not convinced that their going to be strong at RB even with all their top 5 recruits in their 10 deep, at wide receiver their inexperienced, and their replacing key starters on their offensive line. Their defense does have experience and should be good but a couple of injuries changes everything.

If I had to do preseason rankings I would rank USC #1, but I think preseason rankings are dumb. If after the first half USC is undefeated, and have been winning all of their games convincingly and are healthy I could see ranking them #1 but right now their in the same group as everyone else.