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So now that the majority of preseason magazines for the upcoming 2013 season of College Football have been released, it’s time to start looking at the numbers and then taking a look at each team.  We’ll be using websites like these, preseason.stassen.com, to give us a broad look at all of the rankings from the major magazines.  We’ll also look at the websites out there and their rankings for conference  and overall wins.  My next post will be the odds from Vegas for the over/under win totals for all of the FBS Teams.

National Top 25

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
1	Alabama	150	1	1	1	1	1
2	Ohio State	142	2	2	5	2	2
3	Oregon	130	4	3	8	5	5
4	Stanford	129	3	7	2	11	3
5	Georgia	120	6	4	12	9	4
6	Texas A&M	114	5	9	7	13	7
7	South Carolina	113	9	5	3	14	11
8	Clemson	110	7	6	9	15	8
9	Louisville	105	10	10	11	7	12
10	Notre Dame	99	14	8	10	10	14
11	Florida	98	12	13	4	18	10
12	Oklahoma State	95	11	16	6	8	19
13	Florida State	89	13	15	18	3	17
14	Texas	88	18	18	14	4	13
15	Louisiana State	84	8	12	16	17	18
16	Boise State	75	17	11	15	–	6
17	Michigan	73	16	14	13	24	15
18	Nebraska	67	21	21	21	16	9
19	Oklahoma	64	15	17	19	19	21
20	Texas Christian	45	22	20	–	21	16
21	Southern Cal	31	25	–	–	6	–
22	Wisconsin	30	–	19	24	20	–
23	Fresno State	27	–	22	–	22	22
24	Baylor	26	19	–	17	–	–
25	Miami-Florida	22	24	–	22	25	–

Others receiving votes:

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
26t	Michigan State	19	20	–	–	23	–
26t	UCLA	19	23	–	20	–	–
26t	Virginia Tech	19	–	–	–	12	–
29	Northwestern	18	–	24	–	–	20
30	Oregon State	14	–	25	23	–	–
31t	Arizona State	8	–	23	–	–	–
31t	Northern Illinois	8	–	–	–	–	23
33	Kansas State	7	–	–	–	–	24
34t	Mississippi	6	–	–	25	–	–
34t	Tulsa	6	–	–	–	–	25
36	unranked	0	–	–	–	–	–

Conference predictions

AAC (former Big East)

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
1	Louisville	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Rutgers	15	2	3	2	5½	2½
3	Cincinnati	15½	3	2	3	3	4½
4	Central Florida	17½	4	4	5	2	2½
5	Houston	30½	5	7	10	4	4½
6	Connecticut	31½	6	6	4	7	8½
7	Southern Methodist	33½	7	8	6	5½	7
8	South Florida	34	8	5	7	8	6
9	Memphis	46	9	9	9	9	10
10	Temple	46½	10	10	8	10	8½

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Rutgers and Southern Methodist for 5th-6th place in the AAC.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Central Florida and Rutgers for 2nd-3rd place in the AAC.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Cincinnati and Houston for 4th-5th place in the AAC.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Connecticut and Temple for 8th-9th place in the AAC.

Atlantic Coast

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
Atlantic
1	Clemson	6	1	1	1	2	1
2	Florida State	9	2	2	2	1	2
3	N.C. State	18	4	4	3	4	3
4	Maryland	19	3	3	4	4	5
5	Wake Forest	27	7	5	6	4	5
6	Syracuse	29	6	6	5	7	5
7	Boston College	32	5	7	7	6	7
Coastal
1	Miami-Florida	6½	1	1	1	2	1½
2	Virginia Tech	11½	3	2	4	1	1½
3	Georgia Tech	15½	2	3	3	3½	4
4	North Carolina	16½	4	4	2	3½	3
5	Pittsburgh	26½	5	5	5	6	5½
6	Virginia	29½	6	6	6	6	5½
7	Duke	34	7	7	7	6	7

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Maryland, N.C. State, and Wake Forest, for 3rd-5th place in the ACC Atlantic division.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Georgia Tech and North Carolina for 3rd-4th place in the ACC Coastal division.
• Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Duke, Pittsburgh, and Virginia, for 5th-7th place in the ACC Coastal division.
• USA Today predicted a three-way tie between Maryland, Syracuse, and Wake Forest, for 4th-6th place in the ACC Atlantic division.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Miami-Florida and Virginia Tech for 1st-2nd place in the ACC Coastal division.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Pittsburgh and Virginia for 5th-6th place in the ACC Coastal division.

Big Ten

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
Leaders
1	Ohio State	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Wisconsin	10	2	2	2	2	2
3	Penn State	15	3	3	3	3	3
4	Indiana	21	4	4	5	4	4
5	Purdue	24½	5	5	4	5	5½
6	Illinois	29½	6	6	6	6	5½
Legends
1	Michigan	8½	1	1	1	3½	2
2	Nebraska	9½	3	2	2	1½	1
3	Michigan State	15½	2	4	4	1½	4
4	Northwestern	16½	4	3	3	3½	3
5	Iowa	27	5	6	6	5	5
6	Minnesota	28	6	5	5	6	6

Notes:

• Lindy’s swapped Purdue/Illinois and Iowa/Minnesota in their division predictions — they had Iowa/Monnesota in Leaders and Purdue/Illinois in Legends. Since they predicted each pair of teams 5th/6th (in the wrong division), I counted that as a prediciton of 5th/6th in the proper one.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Michigan State and Nebraska for 1st-2nd place in the Big Ten Legends division.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Michigan and Northwestern for 3rd-4th place in the Big Ten Legends division.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Illinois and Purdue for 5th-6th place in the Big Ten Leaders division.

Big XII

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
1	Oklahoma State	8	1	1	1	2	3
2	Texas	10	3	3	2	1	1
3	Oklahoma	13	2	2	3	3	3
4	Texas Christian	22	5	4	6	4	3
5	Baylor	25½	4	6	4	5	6½
6	Kansas State	27	6	5	5	6	5
7	Texas Tech	37	8	7	7	7	8
8	West Virginia	40½	9	8	9	8	6½
9	Iowa State	43	7	9	8	9½	9½
10	Kansas	49	10	10	10	9½	9½

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Iowa State and Kansas for 9th-10th place in the Big XII.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Baylor and West Virginia for 6th-7th place in the Big XII.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Iowa State and Kansas for 9th-10th place in the Big XII.

Conference USA

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
East
1	East Carolina	7½	1	2	1	2	1½
2	Marshall	9½	3	1	3	1	1½
3	Middle Tennessee	16	2	3	2	5	4
4	Southern Miss	20½	5	5	4	3½	3
5	UAB	22	4	4	5	3½	5½
6	Florida Atlantic	30	6	6	6	6½	5½
7	Florida Int’l	34½	7	7	7	6½	7
West
1	Tulsa	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Rice	10	2	2	2	2	2
3	Louisiana Tech	18	4	3	3	4½	3½
4	Texas-El Paso	23	3	4	4	6	6
5	North Texas	24	5	6	5	4½	3½
6	Tulane	25	6	5	6	3	5
7	UTSA	35	7	7	7	7	7

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Southern Mississippi and UAB for 3rd-4th place in CUSA East.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Florida Atlantic and Florida International for 6th-7th place in CUSA East.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Louisiana Tech and North Texas for 4th-5th place in CUSA West.
• USA Today predicted a tie between East Carolina and Marshall for 1st-2nd place in CUSA East.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Florida Atlantic and UAB for 5th-6th place in CUSA East.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Louisiana Tech and North Texas for 3rd-4th place in CUSA West.

Mid-American

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
East
1	Bowling Green	8	3	1	1	1	2
2	Ohio	9	1	2	3	2	1
3	Buffalo	16	2	4	4	3	3
4	Kent State	18	4	3	2	4	5
5	Miami-Ohio	25	6	5	5	5	4
6t	Akron	32	7	6	7	6	6
6t	Massachusetts	32	5	7	6	7	7
West
1	Northern Illinois	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Toledo	12	3	3	2	2	2
3	Ball State	13	2	2	3	3	3
4	Western Michigan	21	4	4	5	4	4
5	Central Michigan	24	5	5	4	5	5
6	Eastern Michigan	30	6	6	6	6	6

Mountain West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
West
1	Fresno State	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	San Diego State	12	3	3	2	2	2
3	San Jose State	14½	2	2	3	3	4½
4	Nevada	19	4	4	4	4	3
5	Nevada-Las Vegas	27	5	5	5	6	6
6	Hawaii	27½	6	6	6	5	4½
Mountain
1	Boise State	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Utah State	10	2	2	2	2	2
3	Air Force	15½	3	3	3	3½	3
4	Wyoming	22½	4	4	4	5	5½
5	Colorado State	24	5	5	5	3½	5½
6	New Mexico	28	6	6	6	6	4

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Air Force and Colorado State for 3rd-4th place in the MWC Mountain division.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Hawai’i and San Jose State for 4th-5th place in the MWC West division.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Colorado State and Wyoming for 5th-6th place in the MWC Mountain division.

Pacific 12

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
North
1t	Oregon	7½	2	1	2	1	1½
1t	Stanford	7½	1	2	1	2	1½
3	Oregon State	16½	4	3	3	3	3½
4	Washington	18½	3	4	4	4	3½
5	California	27	5	5	5	6	6
6	Washington State	28	6	6	6	5	5
South
1	UCLA	9	1	3	1	3	1
2	Arizona State	10½	3	1	2	2	2½
3	Southern Cal	11½	2	2	4	1	2½
4	Arizona	19½	4	4	3	4	4½
5	Utah	24½	5	5	5	5	4½
6	Colorado	30	6	6	6	6	6

Notes:

• USA Today predicted a tie between Oregon and Stanford for 1st-2nd place in the PAC 12 North.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Oregon State and Washington for 3rd-4th place in the PAC 12 North.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Arizona State and Southern Cal for 2nd-3rd place in the PAC 12 South.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Arizona and Utah for 4th-5th place in the PAC 12 South.

Southeastern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
East
1	Georgia	7	1	1	3	1	1
2	South Carolina	10	2	2	1	2½	2½
3	Florida	13	3	3	2	2½	2½
4	Vanderbilt	21½	4	4	4	5½	4
5	Tennessee	24½	5	5	5	4	5½
6	Missouri	29	6	6	6	5½	5½
7	Kentucky	35	7	7	7	7	7
West
1	Alabama	5	1	1	1	1	1
2	Texas A&M	10½	2	2	2	2½	2
3	Louisiana State	14½	3	3	3	2½	3
4	Mississippi	20½	4	4	4	4	4½
5	Mississippi State	28	5	5	7	6½	4½
6	Arkansas	29½	6	7	5	5	6½
7	Auburn	32	7	6	6	6½	6½

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Florida and South Carolina for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC East.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Missouri and Vanderbilt for 5th-6th place in the SEC East.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Louisiana State and Texas A&M for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC West.
• Phil Steele predicted a tie between Auburn and Mississippi State for 6th-7th place in the SEC West.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Florida and South Carolina for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC East.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Missouri and Tenneessee for 5th-6th place in the SEC East.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Mississippi and Mississippi State for 4th-5th place in the SEC West.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Arkansas and Auburn for 6th-7th place in the SEC West.

Sun Belt

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today
1	Louisiana-Lafay.	8	3	1	2	1	1
2t	Louisiana-Monroe	13½	1	2	3	3	4½
2t	Western Kentucky	13½	4	3	1	3	2½
4	Arkansas State	17½	2	4	4	3	4½
5	Troy	22½	5	5	5	5	2½
6	Texas State	30	6	6	6	6	6
7	South Alabama	35	7	7	7	7	7
8	Georgia State	40	8	8	8	8	8

Notes:

• Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Arkansas State, Louisiana-Monroe, and Western Kentucky, for 2nd-4th place in the Sun Belt.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Troy and Western Kentucky for 2nd-3rd place in the Sun Belt.
• USA Today predicted a tie between Arkansas State and Louisiana-Monroe for 4th-5th place in the Sun Belt.