Posted on 01/13/2022 6:25:18 AM PST by blam
Who is ready for 2022?
Several national publications have put out Way Too Early Top 25 rankings for the 2022 college football season.
The consensus at the top has not changed. Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia are the top three choices and likely will be the front-runners for the 2022-23 College Football Playoff.
Who else could make a run? Sporting News posted its Way Too Early Top 25, but we also took a look at other publications. We compiled a composite list using rankings from ESPN, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, Yahoo Sports, 247Sports, Action Network and Athlon.
We used an inverse scoring method (awarding 25 points to a No. 1 selection, 24 for a No. 2 selection, all the way down to one point for a No. 25 selection) to determine the highest possible score for each school.
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Here is what those rankings looked like:
Composite top 25 preseason college football rankings
RANK SCHOOL VOTES HIGH LOW
1 Alabama 225 1 1
2 Ohio State 213 2 3
3 Georgia 210 2 3
4 Texas A&M 188 4 6
5 Clemson 179 4 11
6 Notre Dame 170 5 12
7 Utah 164 4 13
8 Michigan 157 5 20
9 Baylor 135 6 16
10 Wake Forest 125 8 17
11 Oklahoma 119 4 25
12 Michigan State 110 9 NR
13 Oklahoma State 108 8 25
14 Oregon 104 9 20
15 Arkansas 94 10 20
16 NC State 69 8 NR
17 Wisconsin 64 6 NR
18 Iowa 59 11 NR
19 Tennessee 48 13 NR
20 USC 44 13 NR
21 Kentucky 42.5 12 NR
22 Cincinnati 40 14 NR
23 Houston 39 9 NR
24 BYU 38 14 NR
25 Miami 30 11 NR
Others receiving votes: LSU 29, Pitt 28, Penn State 24.5, Texas 23, Ole Miss 16, Minnesota 8, South Carolina 5, Florida 4, Fresno State 4, Coastal Carolina 2, Purdue 2, Kansas State 2, Air Force 2, Nebraska 1
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Cincinnati shouldn't be the farm system for ND coaches, LOL. And even Urban played at UC.
I’m glad Cincinnati made the list. I’ve never been on the campus or even visited the city of Cincinnati, but I earned one unit from the university when I took an online course.
Really Clark? Any team in the country would be happy to be 6-3 in title games.
Clemson has the second ranked scoring defense in the country, which certainly didn't hurt. But their offence ranked 13th in the ACC. Admittedly there were a lot of injuries and Lawrence left unrealistic expectations for his successor, but I'm not sure that Uiagalelei is the answer. I suppose we'll find out next year. Either he continues to improve or Clemson will have to find someone else.
Darn it... My team (UConn) isn’t in the top 25... Darn it... 🤓
Cincinnati is a joke... They play in the AAC American Athletic Conference, a bunch of directional schools - East Carolina, South Florida, Central Florida and a bunch of teams no one cares about - Tulsa, Tulane Temple. SMU and Houston are the 4th and 5th teams in Texas...
33-18.
This year.
UGA is losing a lot of players, while Bama will have more juniors and seniors with experience, and Young is coming back.
Us UConn fans got a coach who'll turn the corner. We have Jim Mora as coach and young assistant coaches.
Time to hit The Boneyard, the UVonn fan site!!
Well, that "joke" trounced America's Football Team, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 24-13.
I will say the one “basement” team I think will start to get much better is Kansas.
Any talk about it now is a total guess. 33-18. The witch is dead!!
I look at the patterns since Saban has been at Bama. The most he’s gone without an NC since 2007 is two years.
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