Oklahoma #1??? No One Gets Crowned Pre-Season

Skip Bayless is “booking it” already and says that Oklahoma has rightly been chosen #1 by most of the coaches in the NCAA. Oklahoma vs. Alabama in the national championship??? I think not.  Anyways, the Coaches Poll has come out and surprise surprise Okie-La-Homer was right, they are #1 by quite a distance.  Alabama comes in second with less than a third of the votes of Oklahoma.  Does this mean that Oklahoma is 3 times better than Alabama…of course not.  The Big 12 looks strong this year, lets just hope they can live up to their reputation.   With exactly half of the Big 12 in the top 25, we are no doubt expecting great things this season.  Another team that SidelineBlog will be closely following is the TCU Hornfrogs.  They were undefeated last season beating two #5 ranked teams and Oregon State who was in the Top 25 at the beginning of the season.  They beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.  I think that  leaves nothing else to say.  Here is your Coaches Poll Preseason Top 25 (and also realize that this is in no way how the season will turn out).

 

Rank	School	Record	Points	Previous
1	Oklahoma	0-0	1454	6
2	Alabama	0-0	1414	11
3	Oregon	0-0	1309	3
4	LSU	0-0	1296	8
5	Florida State	0-0	1116	16
6	Stanford	0-0	1101	4
7	Boise State	0-0	1065	7
8	Oklahoma State	0-0	933	10
9	Texas A&M	0-0	885	21
10	Wisconsin	0-0	829	8
11	Nebraska	0-0	814	19
12	South Carolina	0-0	779	22
13	Virginia Tech	0-0	767	15
14	Arkansas	0-0	750	12
15	TCU	0-0	687	2
16	Ohio State	0-0	631	5
17	Michigan State	0-0	536	14
18	Notre Dame	0-0	440	Not Ranked
19	Auburn	0-0	329	1
20	Mississippi State	0-0	301	17
21	Missouri	0-0	266	18
22	Georgia	0-0	260	Not Ranked
23	Florida	0-0	240	Not Ranked
24	Texas	0-0	162	Not Ranked
25	Penn State	0-0	161	Not Ranked
26	Arizona State	0-0	158	Not Ranked
27	West Virginia	0-0	149	Not Ranked
28	Utah	0-0	50	23
29	Miami (FL)	0-0	49	Not Ranked
30	Iowa	0-0	41	Not Ranked
31	Northwestern	0-0	30	Not Ranked
32	Arizona	0-0	28	Not Ranked
33	UCF	0-0	22	20
34	Michigan	0-0	19	Not Ranked
35	Air Force	0-0	15	Not Ranked
36	North Carolina	0-0	14	Not Ranked
37	Houston	0-0	13	Not Ranked
38	South Florida	0-0	9	Not Ranked
39	Hawaii	0-0	8	Not Ranked
40	Clemson	0-0	7	Not Ranked
41	Tennessee	0-0	7	Not Ranked
42	Southern Mississippi	0-0	6	Not Ranked
43	BYU	0-0	5	Not Ranked
44	North Carolina State	0-0	4	25
45	Northern Illinois	0-0	4	Not Ranked
46	Oregon State	0-0	4	Not Ranked
47	Pittsburgh	0-0	3	Not Ranked
48	Washington	0-0	3	Not Ranked
49	Nevada	0-0	1	13
50	Georgia Tech	0-0	1	Not Ranked

Longhorns on Top of Money List Again!

That’s right, out of the Top 200 Colleges and Universities, The University of Texas at Austin tops them all in amount of merchandise sold. The Longhorns made over $10 million in the last fiscal year (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010).  That’s almost $1.5 million more than they made last year.  This top 10 looks almost identical to a lot of the college sports top 10 teams.  I think its interesting how those two go hand in hand.  A lot of professors curse at collegiate sports like they serve no purpose in this educational system.  I say they go side by side more than you could think.  Colleges need to make money in order to update their facilities, pay their staff, and keep everything like business as usual.  Sports bring in far more money(Football in particular) than the professors do.  That’s impressive if you consider the amount of grants that professors can get from companies and individuals who support whatever research and development is going on in that field.  The point is that I am tired of hearing about how UT puts too much emphasis on sports and not enough on the education.  To me, The University of Texas at Austin is the best place in the world to go to school because not only is it one of the best public universities in the nation for education, but its also one of the best University systems for sports having teams ranked in the Top 25 in nearly all sports.  The Collegiate system out there to me also falls under the “iron law of oligarchy” in the sense that eventually the best teams are just gonna get better making all the other schools out there suffer ever more than they already are.

Top Selling Universities

Rank	College/University
1	The University of Texas at Austin
2	The University of Alabama
3	University of Florida
4	Louisiana State University
5	The University of North Carolina
6	University of Georgia
7	The University of Michigan
8	University of Kentucky
9	The Pennsylvania State University
10	The University of Oklahoma
11	University of Notre Dame
12	University of Tennessee
13	West Virginia University
14	University of Nebraska
15	Auburn University
16	University of Wisconsin
17	The University of Kansas
18	University of Missouri
19	Florida State University
20	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
21	Texas A&M University
22	University of Illinois
23	University of South Carolina
24	Texas Tech University
25	Clemson University
26	Oklahoma State University

The Collegiate Licensing Company Names Top Selling Universities and Manufacturers

SidelineBlog Preseason Top 25 Rankings

First of all I would like to tell you how good it personally feels to see USC not in the Top 25 this season due to their slight death penalty.  However, I do not like how the Big 12 really got screwed in the USA Today Poll.  We here at SidelineBlog have created my own Top 25 that in my opinion is more realistic because you are kididing yourself if you think that Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and more have given up because teams are leaving.  Texas is put at #1 because their program consistently puts together the best team possible out on the field and this season it just so happens to be the best in the nation.  Now whether or not they live up to those expectations is very doubtful if you look at their past (minus the win against USC with Vince Young).  I am excited to see how the Top 25 ends up in the end and how close I am right now to predicting it.  We will be monitoring the situation all season and will have updates periodically (More than likely on a weekly to bi-weekly basis).  Without further ado, here is our Top 25 preseason rankings:

Rank	Team	Record
1	Texas	0-0
2	Alabama	0-0
3	Ohio State	0-0
4	Florida	0-0
5	TCU	0-0
6	Nebraska	0-0
7	Miami U (FL)	0-0
8	Boise State	0-0
9	Wisconsin	0-0
10	Oklahoma	0-0
11	Iowa	0-0
12	Virginia Tech	0-0
13	LSU	0-0
14	Penn State	0-0
15	Florida State	0-0
16	Pittsburgh	0-0
17	Georgia Tech	0-0
18	North Carolina	0-0
19	Arkansas	0-0
20	Houston	0-0
21	Oregon State	0-0
22	Cincinnati	0-0
23	Oklahoma State	0-0
24	Oregon	0-0
25	Missouri	0-0

Week 1 College Football Rankings Top 50

So the first week of college football has already seen its plethora of upsets.   I am so excited for this college football season because Sam Bradford is already out of the Heisman watch and it looks like after Week 1 we already have it down to two candidates.  Tim Tebow and Colt Mccoy are both front runners for the Heisman Trophy this year with Tim Tebow leading slightly.  Jahvid Best is a somewhat close 3rd with Max Hall of BYU getting a huge boost after dismantling the Oklahoma Sooner defense.  Dez Bryant made the cover of the next Sports Illustrated but has not see much boost in the Heisman Watch.  Oklahoma State put a beat down on Georgia this past weekend which was personally my favorite game even though Oklahoma did lose to BYU.  With week 2 having some more important games I am excited to see what the rankings will be after this weekend.

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma State
4. USC
5. Alabama
6. Ole Miss
7. Penn State
8. Ohio State
9. LSU
10. BYU
11. Cal
12. Boise State
13. Oklahoma
14. Virginia Tech
15. Georgia Tech
16. TCU
17. Utah
18. North Carolina
19. Miami (FL)
20. Notre Dame
21. Nebraska
22. Cincinnati
23. Kansas
24. Missouri
25. Texas Tech
26. Oregon State
27. Georgia
28. Michigan State
29. Pittsburgh
30. Oregon
31. Clemson
32. Florida State
33. West Virginia
34. Tennessee
35. Iowa
36. Michigan
37. UCLA
38. Baylor
39. Boston College
40. Arizona
41. East Carolina
42. Air Force
43. Auburn
44. Colorado State
45. Arkansas
46. South Carolina
47. South Florida
48. Southern Miss
49. Tulsa
50. Houston

Preseason College Football Rankings

Thank you god!  College Football season is just around the corner now.  I was seriously going crazy having to watch Baseball 24/7 in order to fill my sports time in my life.  I am pretty much through with baseball because of all the steroids issues.  I feel like the time I found out that wrestling wasnt real.  Thank you oh football gods for making this time go faster than I thought though, because I am so ready for this season to start.  There are so many awesome teams out there to choose from.  Personally I am hoping for a Longhorn national championship again (but I am not holding my breathe).  The only thing I truly care about is that they do not hype the SEC up more than they are worth this season.  The Big 12 is where its at and the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and PAC-10 are pretty weak this season.  I will also be interested in finding out where Utah, Boise State, and TCU will be ending up as well as how June Jones does at SMU.  Anyways, I know what you guys are looking for so here it is.  This past week USA Today did their annual preseason rankings for this next season.

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma
4. USC
5. Alabama
6. Ohio State
7. Virginia Tech
8. Penn State
9. LSU
10. Mississippi
11. Oklahoma State
12. California
13. Georgia
14. Oregon
15. Georgia Tech
16. Boise State
17. TCU
18. Utah
19. Florida State
20. North Carolina
21. Iowa
22. Nebraska
23. Notre Dame
24. Brigham Young
25. Oregon State
26. Kansas
27. Michigan State
28. Texas Tech
29. Cincinnati
30. Pittsburgh
31. West Virginia
32. Rutgers
33. Miami (FL)
34. Missouri
35. Illinois
36. Clemson
37. South Carolina
38. UCLA
39. Auburn
40. South Florida
41. Nevada
42. Kentucky
43. North Carolina State
44. Wisconsin
45. Arkansas
46. Northwestern
47. Southern Miss
48. Wake Forest
49. Arizona
50. Boston College
51. Central Michigan
52. East Carolina
53. Colorado
54. Maryland
55. Navy
56. Tennessee
57. Troy
58. Minnesota
59. Michigan
60. Houston

I personally cannot believe how Notre Dame was ranked so high.  The Big 12 has 8 teams ranked in the top 60 which theorectically means that the Big 12 could have 8 + teams in college bowl games by the end of the season.  I can only hope that they take care of business before the conference games start.  Anyways, this is exciting for me because I just watched an NFL game on TV for the first time this season.  The Hall of Fame Game was on and it has made my life a lot better and hope it will yours too!

Week 10 Losers

A lot of big losers this weekend.  Once again we see another top 5 team get upset.   Looks like Texas should be moving up soon.

#3 Penn State

#9 Oklahoma State

#12TCU

#16 LSU

#20 Georgia Tech

#21 California

#23 Maryland

#24 Northwestern

#25 West Virginia

Its BCS Time…BCS Top 25

Over the past few years there has been a lot of concern for the rankings of college football to be determined by a computer system.  Personally I am all for it and all for exploiting the computer world, but I too, have had problems in the past with its decisions.  The two incidences that I am referring to are the 2003 season when USC was ranked #1 in both polls but when the final BCS Standings came out, they were ranked 3rd and out of the championship.  Personally since then I have felt that USC has gotten a lot of votes when they should not have.  After they won their bowl game they were forced to share the #1 status with LSU which created a lot of controversy.  In 2006 Boise State was denied a spot in the championship game after going undefeated the entire season and ended up having to play in the Fiesta Bowl and beat Oklahoma in overtime 43-42 (my favorite bowl game of the year).  To me, I dont think you should even be given a chance in the case of Boise State unless they are willing to play heavy hitting teams throughout the season.  There is no chance they make it in this year because of the schedules the Big 12, SEC, and Big 10.  Even though the BCS has had its controversial subjects, its still better than the alternative which would be biased votes from across the country like the AP Poll which this season I have had a lot of problems with.  I am just glad that Texas is at the top where they should be at this point.  A lot of Alabama fans are pissed they are not #1 and all I have to say about that is look at what has happened the past couple of seasons with the #1 spot.  They seem to lose all the time so I wouldn’t worry too much about it because you guys don’t have much of a schedule left. Anyways, without further blabbing, here is the first BCS Standings of the 2008 season:

1. Texas 7-0
2. Alabama 7-0
3. Penn State 8-0
4. Oklahoma 6-1
5. USC 5-1
6. Oklahoma State 7-0
7. Georgia 6-1
8. Texas Tech 7-0
9. Ohio State 7-1
10. Florida 5-1
11. Utah 8-0
12. Boise State 6-0
13. LSU 5-1
14. TCU 7-1
15. Missouri 5-2
16. South Florida 6-1
17. Pitt 5-1
18. Georgia Tech 6-1
19. Tulsa 7-0
20. Ball State 7-0
21. BYU 6-1
22. Northwestern 6-1
23. Kansas 5-2
24. Minnesota 6-1
25. Florida State 5-1

Texas is #1 by 13 votes

A huge shake up in the polls today.  Just one week before the BCS polls come out, the AP poll is going nuts.  I couldnt believe the way it ended up with Texas being number 1 in the end.  I couldnt believe they leapfrogged Alabama like that, but I guess it makes sense.   Texas did just beat the Number 1 team, while Alabama didnt play anyone.  If the Alabama fans have anything to look at, its that they dont have the schedule Texas does in the future, and hey, Alabama and Texas both became Bowl eligible this past weekend.

1. Texas (39) 6-0 1,599
2.  Alabama (26) 6-0 1,582
3.  Penn State 7-0 1,492
4.  Oklahoma 5-1 1,306
5.  Florida 5-1 1,284
6.  USC 4-1 1,247
7.  Texas Tech 6-0 1,210
8.  Oklahoma State 6-0 1,184
9.  Brigham Young 6-0 1,131
10.  Georgia 5-1 1,081
11.  Missouri 5-1 984
12.  Ohio State 6-1 908
13.  LSU 4-1 893
14.  Utah 7-0 834
15.  Boise State 5-0 714
16.  Kansas 5-1 620
17.  Virginia Tech 5-1 540
18.  North Carolina 5-1 416
19.  South Florida 5-1 397
20.  Michigan State 6-1 371
21.  Wake Forest 4-1 330
22.  Vanderbilt 5-1 258
23.  Pittsburgh 4-1 182
24.  Ball State 7-0 166
25.  California 4-1 115

All I have to say is…Watch out for Penn State.

Week 6 – College Football – Division 1 – Top 25

SideLine Blog’s Top 25 Week 5

I feel as if the AP Poll doesnt know what its doing.  Do you ever feel like that?  Like how Georgia was #1 in the beginning of the season and how they fell to #3 in the first week after beating someone.  Anyways, I think that I can do a better job of predicting the outcome of the season instead of creating all this drama and upsets.  I think thats why they do it.  Anyways for the 5th week of the College Football season, here is my top 5:

1. Oklahoma
2. Missouri
3. Alabama
4. LSU
5. Texas
6. Texas Tech
7. Penn State
8. South Florida
9. Utah
10. Vanderbilt
11. BYU
12. Georgia
13. Florida
14. USC
15. Ohio State
16. Oklahoma State
17. Kansas
18. Kentucky
19. Connecticut
20. Wisconsin
21. Northwestern
22. Boise State
23. Maryland
24. Michigan State
25. North Carolina