Let's predict the AP Preseason Top 25 CFB Rankings

The Game Room
#1

Using whatever source(s) you like, or just your own sense of things, what’s your best guess as to how AP will see the upcoming year?

=================

Predicting the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 College Football Poll
By Amy Daughters(Featured Columnist) on June 24, 2012

Earlier SDMB threads:


Is there anything to be gained by talking about 2012’s College Football this early?


Bleacher Report Articles: Speeding up the process

Other preseason predictions:

http://www.lsufootball.net/articles/2012-preseason-polls.htm
2012 Preseason College Football Polls
06/12/12: Page is way out of date; I’ll try to update by Thursday


2012 College Football Season Preview
Preseason Rankings Comparison
2012 Preseason Rankings Comparison
Updated 6/7/12

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--preseason-1-124-countdown--nos--66-70.html;_ylt=Al33A15u7etLKLWhH.MeD7UcvrYF
Preseason 1-124 countdown: Nos. 66-70
By Mike Huguenin | Yahoo! Sports - Sat, Jun 23, 2012 8:23 AM EDT

==================================

#2

It would appear that Bleacher Report is going after this idea:

Ranking All 124 College Football Teams, Summer Edition
By Dan Vasta(Featured Columnist) on June 24, 2012

#3

A source that’s beginning to be filled in is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_rankings#Preseason_polls

It might be fun to compare this with last year’s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_rankings#Preseason_polls

and how that compared with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_rankings#AP_Poll

The guesswork would all hinge on how this year’s AP Voters think like last year’s.

A fun measure of that sort of thing can be seen at
http://preseason.stassen.com/prediction-accuracy/2011.html