The SportsRatings 2012 college football preview ranks all 124 FBS (Division I-A) teams. These rankings predict how good the teams should be, before taking schedule into account; then the preview explores how well they should do given their schedule.
Projected odds of winning each scheduled game are given for every team. Two projected records are presented: one based simply on which games a team is favored to win (straight up), and also an aggregate projection that allows for the uncertainty across a season (cumulative). The expectation for the team's season lies somewhere within the range of the two values.
2012 SportsRatings Pre-season Top 124
1. USC Trojans
2. Alabama Crimson Tide
3. Oklahoma Sooners
4. LSU Tigers
5. Florida State Seminoles
6. Texas Longhorns
7. Michigan Wolverines
8. Oregon Ducks
9. Wisconsin Badgers
10. Oklahoma State Cowboys
11. Stanford Cardinal
12. Georgia Bulldogs
13. Arkansas Razorbacks
14. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
15. Nebraska Cornhuskers
16. South Carolina Gamecocks
17. West Virginia Mountaineers
18. Ohio State Buckeyes
19. Vanderbilt Commodores
20. Missouri Tigers
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22. Kansas State Wildcats
23. Florida Gators
24. Utah Utes
25. Michigan State Spartans
26. Clemson Tigers
27. TCU Horned Frogs
28. South Florida Bulls
29. Tennessee Volunteers
30. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
31. Baylor Bears
32. Texas Tech Red Raiders
33. Auburn Tigers
34. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
35. Virginia Tech Hokies
36. Boise State Broncos
37. Houston Cougars
38. California Golden Bears
39. Iowa State Cyclones
40. Mississippi State Bulldogs
41. Tulsa Golden Hurricane
42. BYU Cougars
43. North Carolina Tar Heels
44. Illinois Fighting Illini
45. Central Florida Knights
46. Washington Huskies
47. Oregon State Beavers
48. UCLA Bruins
49. Pittsburgh Panthers
50. Cincinnati Bearcats
51. Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
52. Southern Miss Golden Eagles
53. Louisville Cardinals
54. Iowa Hawkeyes
55. Connecticut Huskies
56. Miami Hurricanes
57. Army Black Knights
58. SMU Mustangs
59. North Carolina State Wolfpack
60. Purdue Boilermakers
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61. Boston College Eagles
62. Arizona State Sun Devils
63. Arizona Wildcats
64. Bowling Green Falcons
65. FIU Golden Panthers
66. Penn State Nittany Lions
67. Washington State Cougars
68. Virginia Cavaliers
69. Temple Owls
70. Miami Ohio Redhawks
71. Wake Forest Demon Deacons
72. Ohio Bobcats
73. Arkansas State Red Wolves
74. Mississippi Rebels
75. Toledo Rockets
76. Fresno State Bulldogs
77. Utah State Aggies
78. Nevada Wolf Pack
79. Northwestern Wildcats
80. Western Michigan Broncos
81. Louisiana-Lafeyette Ragin' Cajuns
82. Duke Blue Devils
83. Syracuse Orange
84. Minnesota Golden Gophers
85. UTEP Miners
86. Northern Illinois Huskies
87. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
88. Wyoming Cowboys
89. Maryland Terrapins
90. San Diego State Aztecs
91. Kentucky Wildcats
92. East Carolina Pirates
93. Kansas Jayhawks
94. Navy Midshipmen
95. Kent State Golden Flashes
96. Air Force Falcons
97. Marshall Thundering Herd
98. Ball State Cardinals
99. Central Michigan Chippewas
100. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
101. San Jose State Spartans
102. Eastern Michigan Eagles
103. Rice Owls
104. Colorado Buffaloes
105. Hawaii Warriors
106. Buffalo Bulls
107. Indiana Hoosiers
108. North Texas Mean Green
109. Colorado State Rams
110. Idaho Vandals
111. Troy Trojans
112. Texas State Bobcats
113. Tulane Green Wave
114. Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners
115. Massachusetts Minutemen
116. Florida Atlantic Owls
117. South Alabama Jaguars
118. UNLV Rebels
119. UAB Blazers
120. Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
121. Memphis Tigers
122. New Mexico State Aggies
123. New Mexico Lobos
124. Akron Zips
Schedule listings are adapted from James Howell's site. Team helmet .gifs are from The Helmet Project.
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We do our college football fantasy auction this Sunday. I use your data in my spreadsheet to bid on teams. Could you please send me the rest of the top fifty with their projected records? Thank you!
You should charge for your information!
Posted by: Jim Szczerba | August 23, 2012 at 04:34 PM