3 hours ago3 hr Moderator No. O - O 😍 Ohio State is No.1 and OBD 2nd!On3College Football Rankings: USA Today reveals Preseason Co....
2 hours ago2 hr Administrator No. Perfect. Respected, but still an underdog.May these rankings remain until we meet in Columbus! Mr. OBD
1 hour ago1 hr Author Moderator No. Reviewing the Bidding - 9 SEC teams, 6 in the top 12. 8 Big Ten Teams, 3 in the top 12. 4 B12 teams, and 3 ACC teams, and No. 5 Notre Dame. No.7 Miami would be the ACC's sole PO participant (sorry, Coach Narduzzi😁), with Notre Dame the PO 5th seed. Think this would Just Mean More to Greg Sankey? No. 12 Texas Tech, the only B12 participant, would knock No. 11 Alabama out of the 12-team field. 12-seed G6 No. 35 Boise State would also add to Bama's misery and help to keep 13 LSU out of the PO. Please, football gods, let this happen! 😇With eight teams ranked, the Big Ten is only one off the SEC's nine teams ranked. But here's the rub: five SEC teams are ranked between No. 6 Indiana and No. 14 USC. On the field, over the last two seasons in particular, the middle of the SEC has not been superior to the middle of the Big Ten.The coaches don't get this. And based on two seasons of PO committee rankings, neither do the members of the committee. SEC-centric ranking is the main reason Tony Petitti and the Big Ten insist on a 24-team PO field. The B1G will not budge from this number of PO participants. Especially when Petitti's format no longer includes automatic qualifiers. The ACC, B12, and Notre Dame back the Big Ten PO format; the SEC, carrying ESPN's exclusive broadcast bucket of water, wants a 16-team field, and why not? In 2025, a 16-team PO field would have included 7 SEC and 3 Big Ten teams. No. 16 USC would have been knocked out by G5 Tulane.Overrated IMO: No. 8 Texas A&M, no 2025 wins over an SEC team that won more than six games and a PO home loss.No. 9 Oklahoma. Shut down by 3-loss Texas, and also shut down in a 1st-round PO game loss to a 3-loss Bama team.No. 11 Alabama. One starting player returns on offense, and the starting QB will have no experience as a starter.No. 18 Tennessee. Why are the Vols, whose QB will have no starts, ranked ahead of a UW team with an experienced returning QB?No. 25 Missouri. Thrown into the top 25 for lack of a better idea? In 2025, these Tigers did not defeat a team with a winning record. Others Receiving Votes of interest to Oregon: 29 Illinois, 35 Boise State, 36 Oklahoma State, and 41 Nebraska. If CFB, like CBB, used a Quad System to value wins and losses, there would be 34 teams in Quad 1, and Oregon would play these Quad 1 opponents: No. 1 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio; 14 USC in LA; 16 Michigan; 19 Washington; and 29 Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The home opener vs 35 Boise State is a game against the highest-ranked G6 team and what would be the top-ranked Quad 2 team.With the game being played on the road in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the game vs 36 Oklahoma State would be a CBB Quad 1 game. The Coaches Preseason Poll Playoff.1. Ohio State vs 9. Oklahoma at 8. Texas A&M4. Texas vs 12. Boise State at 5. Notre Dame2. Oregon vs 11. Texas Tech at 6. Indiana3. Georgia vs 10. Mississippi at 7. Miami I do not want to hear the same stuff we heard in 2025 from SEC-centric (expletive deleted 🤬) Dixiecrats. A two-loss Oregon will not be on the bubble but will be a PO team.Beat Boise!
1 hour ago1 hr Author Moderator No. USA Today's thoughts on the top 25 -https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/04/college-football-rankings-top-25-coaches-poll-preseason/91067938007/?utm_source=usat-path-to-playoff-nletter76&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sportsgr
1 hour ago1 hr Author Moderator No. Overrated!https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/04/college-football-rankings-top-25-poll-most-overrated-teams-2026/91067845007/
1 hour ago1 hr Author Moderator No. The Hoosiers Were Hosed! And the SEC is Overrated.https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/04/college-football-rankings-coaches-poll-top-25-indiana-notre-dame-hot-takes/91062358007/
48 minutes ago48 min Author Moderator No. Five teams that could have been ranked include two 2026 opponents, Boise State and Illinois.https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/04/college-football-rankings-preseason-poll-top-25-snubs-2026/91067815007/?utm_source=usat-path-to-playoff-nletter76&utm_medium=email&utm_ca
41 minutes ago41 min Author Moderator No. What do the schedules say? Will 2 losses mean a PO bid?https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/04/cfp-bracket-prediction-college-football-playoff-rankings-top-25-preseason/91068181007/?utm_source=usat-path-to-playoff-nletter76&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig
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