10 Days and counting...

I can't believe the start of the new college football season starts in only 10 days.  This season is going to be unlike any other.  For starters, there is no more BCS and we have a playoff, well a mini playoff, in my opinion.  I would like to see it expanded from 4 to 8, which will probably happen sooner than the 12, 14 or however long the agreement is for.  I imagine if this year has controversy, which I'm sure it will, the playoff will be expanded especially if the controversy is an SEC team being left out of the four chosen.  For me, I would love that for 2 reasons.  First, the SEC finally gets screwed by the end of the season (Pac-10 got screwed at least 3 times and 2 of those caused a tweaking to the BCS).  Second, the playoff will get expanded to 8 a lot sooner.

The AP Top 25 Preseason Poll got released today.  Although,  the poll doesn't mean anything anymore, I still am using it for the first week of my ranking system so teams can get bonus points for playing top-ranked teams.  For example, Texas A&M vs South Carolina, Clemson vs Georgia and Wisconsin vs LSU are all games featuring 2 AP Top 25 ranked teams playing each other the 1st weekend of the season.  Like the previous years, I'm only using the AP poll for the 1st week only to use as a starting point.  After the 1st week, the bonus points related to rankings will be from the results of the 1st week from my polls.

Below is the AP Top 25 Preseason Poll:

AP Top 25 Preseason Poll
Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Previous
1	Florida St.	0-0	1496	1
2	Alabama	0-0	1361	7
3	Oregon	0-0	1334	9
4	Oklahoma	0-0	1324	6
5	Ohio St.	0-0	1207	12
6	Auburn	0-0	1198	2
7	UCLA	0-0	1106	16
8	Michigan St.	0-0	1080	3
9	South Carolina	0-0	1015	4
10	Baylor	0-0	996	13
11	Stanford	0-0	885	11
12	Georgia	0-0	843	NR
13	LSU	0-0	776	14
14	Wisconsin	0-0	637	22
15	USC	0-0	626	19
16	Clemson	0-0	536	8
17	Notre Dame	0-0	445	20
18	Ole Miss	0-0	424	NR
19	Arizona St.	0-0	357	21
20	Kansas St.	0-0	242	NR
21	Texas A&M	0-0	238	18
22	Nebraska	0-0	226	NR
23	North Carolina	0-0	194	NR
24	Missouri	0-0	134	5
25	Washington	0-0	130	25

Others receiving votes:  UCF 94, Florida 87, Texas 86, Duke 71, Iowa 68, Louisville 48, Marshall 41, Oklahoma State 37, Virginia Tech 26, TCU 23, Mississippi State 22, Michigan 19, Texas Tech 19, Miami (FL) 16, Cincinnati 15, Boise State 10, Oregon State 10, Northwestern 8, BYU 8, Penn State 5, Vanderbilt 2, Navy 2, Nevada 1, Lousisiana-Lafayette 1, Utah State 1