It’s May at a college football blog, part two

One thing stassen.com does in the preseason is compile composite rankings of the projections from all the preseason college football mags.  Three are out — Athlon, Lindy’s and Street and Smith — so here’s what that batch looks like.

 

National Top 25

 

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Street and Smith	Lindy
1	Alabama	89	1	1	2
2	Clemson	88	2	2	1
3	Ohio State	83	4	3	3
4	Georgia	82	3	4	4
5	Wisconsin	73	9	6	5
6t	Miami-Florida	72	6	8	7
6t	Oklahoma	72	10	5	6
8	Washington	70	8	7	8
9	Auburn	65	7	12	9
10t	Michigan	61	5	9	18
10t	Penn State	61	11	10	11
12	Michigan State	60	12	11	10
13	Notre Dame	52	15	14	12
14	Stanford	49	18	13	13
15	Florida State	46	13	18	16
16	Virginia Tech	44	16	16	17
17t	Boise State	39	19	21	14
17t	Mississippi State	39	14	20	20
19	Southern Cal	38	21	15	19
20	West Virginia	34	22	22	15
21t	Central Florida	19	–	20	23
21t	Texas	19	20	23	–
23t	Oregon	17	23	–	22
23t	Texas Christian	17	24	–	21
25t	Florida	14	17	–	–
25t	Louisiana State	14	–	17	–
25t	South Carolina	14	–	24	24

If that holds up, you’ve got a noticeable gap between fourth and fifth, which should make the selection committee’s job pretty obvious.  Which means it’ll be the Big 12 and Pac-12 getting shut out of the playoffs.  Makes me wonder how long Bill Hancock’s “all is well” shtick will hold up if that’s the case.

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