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2000 Preseason Consensus


See the "notes" file for information on the preseason consensus. See the "2000 accuracy" file for a comparison between 2000 preseason predictions and final conference standings.

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National Top 25

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
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1 Nebraska 386 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 - - 2 - 2 1 - 1
2 Florida State 378 1 2 2 1 2 4 3 2 2 - - 1 - 1 2 - 2
3 Alabama 353 3 3 4 6 3 6 7 3 3 - - 3 - 3 3 - 3
4 Wisconsin 330 5 4 3 10 5 2 6 5 7 - - 5 - 5 8 - 8
5 Miami-Florida 324 9 6 5 4 4 3 2 10 5 - - 6 - 14 6 - 5
6 Michigan 320 4 12 6 9 6 11 4 4 4 - - 4 - 11 4 - 4
7 Texas 302 6 7 8 7 11 8 8 9 12 - - 10 - 4 5 - 6
8 Florida 301 10 8 7 3 9 5 5 11 8 - - 11 - 6 10 - 9
9 Georgia 291 7 11 9 8 8 7 9 7 6 - - 9 - 17 7 - 7
10 Kansas State 289 12 5 10 5 7 9 10 6 10 - - 7 - 7 - - 10
11 Virginia Tech 248 16 13 11 12 10 17 12 12 9 - - 8 - 8 - - 11
12 Clemson 212 13 23 16 15 18 13 13 8 14 - - 14 - 13 - - 15
13 Tennessee 206 14 10 12 20 12 21 - 14 13 - - 12 - 9 - - 13
14 Southern Cal 198 15 9 23 14 15 12 11 18 17 - - 21 - 20 9 - 21
15 Washington 183 8 16 14 17 19 20 - 13 21 - - 17 - 16 - - 12
16 Ohio State 177 11 15 24 11 17 18 17 22 19 - - 15 - 21 - - 20
17 Purdue 175 21 14 13 - 14 10 - 16 15 - - 13 - 18 - - 16
18 Mississippi 168 19 19 15 - 16 14 25 17 11 - - 16 - 19 - - 17
19 Texas Christian 162 20 18 21 16 24 15 15 15 20 - - 20 - 22 - - 19
20 Penn State 128 18 - 17 13 20 - - 19 25 - - 19 - 10 - - 25
21 Oklahoma 119 17 17 - 23 23 23 14 23 - - - - - 12 - - 23
22 Southern Miss 105 - 25 19 21 25 24 16 20 23 - - 22 - 25 - - -
23 Illinois 104 - - 20 - 13 19 19 21 - - - 18 - - - - 18
24 Texas A&M 81 - 21 25 18 - - - - 18 - - 23 - 15 - - -
25 Colorado 70 - - 18 - 21 22 - 25 - - - - - - - - 14

Others receiving votes:

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
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Smith
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F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
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Sports
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26 East Carolina 62 - - - 19 - 16 20 - - - - - - - - - 22
27 Utah 59 24 - 22 22 - - 18 - - - - 25 - - - - -
28 Notre Dame 42 23 22 - - - - 21 - - - - - - - - - -
29 UCLA 41 22 20 - - - 25 - - - - - - - - - - -
30 Michigan State 38 - 24 - - 22 - - - - - - 24 - - - - -
31 Mississippi State 30 - - - - - - - - 16 - - - - - - - -
32 Colorado State 29 - - - 24 - - - 24 - - - - - - - - -
33 Auburn 28 25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24
34t Arizona State 24 - - - - - - 22 - - - - - - - - - -
34t Toledo 24 - - - - - - - - 22 - - - - - - - -
36t Minnesota 23 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 - - -
36t Virginia 23 - - - - - - 23 - - - - - - - - - -
38t Oregon 22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24 - - -
38t Pittsburgh 22 - - - - - - 24 - - - - - - - - - -
38t Syracuse 22 - - - - - - - - 24 - - - - - - - -
41 Louisiana State 21 - - - 25 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
42 unranked 15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Notes:

Conference predictions

Atlantic Coast

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
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1 Florida State 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Clemson 35½ 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 Virginia 62½ 3 4 3 3 3 2 3 4 6 3 3 5 6 3 5 4
4 Georgia Tech 76 5 6 4 5 4 7 6 3 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3
5 Maryland 87 4 5 5 6 6 5 4 5 7 3 7 6 3 5 6 3 7
6 North Carolina 88 7 3 6 4 5 4 5 6 5 4 5 5 6 7 5 6 5
7 N.C. State 111 6 7 7 8 7 6 7 7 6 7 6 7 7 3 7 7 6
8 Wake Forest 141 8 8 8 7 8 8 9 8 9 9 8 8 9 8 8 9 9
9 Duke 147 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 8 8 9 9 8 9 9 8 8

Notes:

Big East

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Miami-Florida 21 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1
2 Virginia Tech 32 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2
3 Syracuse 54 4 4 3 2 3 2 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 Pittsburgh 77 5 6 4 4 4 4 3 5 5 4 6 4 4 5 4 4 6
5 Boston College 80 3 3 5 6 5 6 4 3 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 4
6 West Virginia 96 6 5 6 5 6 5 6 6 6 7 4 6 7 4 5 7 5
7 Temple 120 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 8 6 7 7 6 7 8 6 8
8 Rutgers 132 8 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 7 8 7

Big Ten

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Michigan 26 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 1
2 Wisconsin 27 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2
3 Purdue 66 5 3 3 5 4 2 5 3 5 4 3 3 4 4 6 4 3
4 Ohio State 75 3 4 6 3 5 4 3 6 3 3 4 4 7 5 3 7 5
5 Penn State 87 4 7 4 4 6 8 6 4 4 5 5 6 6 2 4 6 6
6 Illinois 93½ 7 6 6 8 3 6 4 5 6 7 5 3 7 7 3 4
7 Michigan State 115½ 6 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 7 8 8 5 8 7
8 Minnesota 124 8 8 8 6 8 5 9 8 8 8 8 8 5 6 8 5 8
9 Indiana 154 9 9 9 10 9 10 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
10 Northwestern 176 11 11 11 9 11 9 10 11 10 10 10 11 10 11 10 10 11
11 Iowa 179 10 10 10 11 10 11 11 10 11 11 11 10 11 10 11 11 10

Notes:

Big 12

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
North
1 Nebraska 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Kansas State 34 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 Colorado 55½ 3 4 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3
4 Kansas 79 4 3 4 6 4 6 4 5 5 4 4 5 4 6 6 4 5
5 Iowa State 80½ 5 6 5 5 5 5 3 4 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 4
6 Missouri 91 6 5 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 3 4 6 6
South
1 Texas 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Oklahoma 38 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2
3 Texas A&M 48 3 3 2 2 4 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3
4 Texas Tech 70 4 5 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4
5 Oklahoma St. 82 5 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5
6 Baylor 102 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Notes:

Big West

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Boise State 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Idaho 36 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 3
3 New Mexico St. 50 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 2 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 2
4 Arkansas State 68 4 5 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 3 4
5 Utah State 85 6 4 5 6 5 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5
6 North Texas 99 5 6 6 5 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Conference USA

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Southern Miss 23 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 2
2 East Carolina 30 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1
3 Memphis 72 5 6 6 6 3 7 3 6 4 4 3 3 2 4 5 2 3
4 Louisville 80 6 4 3 5 5 6 8 4 3 3 6 4 4 5 3 4 7
5 Cincinnati 82 3 5 5 3 4 3 4 5 8 6 5 5 7 3 4 7 5
6 Houston 104 4 3 7 8 6 5 7 3 5 8 4 6 9 8 6 9 6
7 UAB 112 7 8 4 7 7 9 5 8 6 7 7 8 6 6 7 6 4
8 Tulane 113 9 7 8 4 8 4 6 7 7 5 8 7 5 7 8 5 8
9 Army 149 8 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 8 9

Mid-American

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
East
1 Marshall 29 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 1 4 1 1 4 2
2 Akron 31 3 2 2 4 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1
3 Ohio U. 59 4 4 3 5 4 3 6 4 2 3 3 4 2 3 4 2 3
4 Miami-Ohio 65 2 3 4 2 3 5 4 2 5 5 5 3 5 4 3 5 5
5 Bowling Green 75 5 5 6 3 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 5 3 5 5 3 4
6 Kent 98 6 6 5 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
7 Buffalo 119 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
West
1 Toledo 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1
2 N. Illinois 38 2 2 3 3 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 2
3 Western Michigan 49 4 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 3 3 3 3
4 Central Michigan 71 3 4 4 5 3 5 6 4 4 3 4 5 4 5 4 4 4
5 Eastern Michigan 81 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 5 4 5 4 5 5 5
6 Ball State 99 5 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Mountain West

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Utah 25 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2
2 Colorado St. 33 2 1 3 3 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 3 2 1
3 Brigham Young 48 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 4 3 3 2 2 4 3 3
4 Air Force 77 5 6 5 5 7 3 6 6 4 3 4 4 4 5 2 4 4
5 Wyoming 92 4 4 6 8 4 7 5 4 6 7 6 5 5 6 5 5 5
6 UNLV 99 7 5 4 4 5 5 4 5 5 6 5 6 8 8 7 8 7
7 San Diego St. 118 8 7 7 7 6 8 8 8 7 8 7 7 7 4 6 7 6
8 New Mexico 120 6 8 8 6 8 6 7 7 8 5 8 8 6 7 8 6 8

Pacific 10

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Washington 25 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1
2 Southern Cal 33 2 1 2 1 1 4 1 2 1 2 1 2 4 2 1 4 2
3 UCLA 67 3 3 3 3 3 2 4 4 3 4 3 3 6 4 7 6 6
4 Oregon 80½ 4 4 4 4 7 5 9 3 3 4 4 3 6 9 2 3
5 Oregon State 84½ 5 6 8 8 5 3 7 5 5 7 6 2 3 3 3 4
6 Arizona State 94½ 6 5 6 5 4 8 2 8 6 5 5 7 5 6 7 5
7 Arizona 118½ 7 8 5 6 8 6 5 6 9 6 8 9 8 5 8 8
8 Stanford 120 8 7 7 10 6 7 10 7 8 7 8 7 5 7 4 5 7
9 California 147 9 9 10 7 9 9 6 9 9 8 9 9 8 9 8 9 10
10 Washington St. 165 10 10 9 9 10 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9

Notes:

Southeastern

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
East
1 Georgia 25 1 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1
2 Florida 28 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2
3 Tennessee 49 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3
4 Kentucky 69 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 Vanderbilt 85 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 South Carolina 101 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
West
1 Alabama 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Mississippi 34 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 Mississippi St. 70 4 6 4 5 3 6 6 4 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 3 6
4 Auburn 72 3 5 5 3 4 3 5 6 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 5
5 Louisiana St. 80 5 4 3 4 6 5 3 5 6 6 3 5 6 4 5 6 4
6 Arkansas 84 6 3 6 6 5 4 4 3 5 5 6 6 5 6 6 5 3

Western Athletic

Rank Team Total
Points
Athlon Sporting
News
Lindy Phil
Steele
Street
&
Smith
Coll.
F'ball
News
ATS
Cons.
Sports
Illus.
Preview
Sports
Sports
Net-
work
CNN/
SI
CPA
Rnk.
F'ball
Action
Game
Plan
Jim
Feist
C&PF
N'wkly
Blue
Ribbon
1 Texas Christian 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Fresno State 36 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 Hawaii 62 3 3 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 3 4 3 5 3 3 5 3
4 S. Methodist 77 6 5 3 5 6 6 4 4 3 4 5 5 3 5 5 4 4
5 Rice 81 5 7 5 2 5 3 6 6 5 5 6 6 4 4 4 3 5
6 Texas-El Paso 88 4 4 7 7 4 4 2 5 6 6 3 4 7 6 6 7 6
7t San Jose St. 129½ 7 8 6 8 8 9 8 7 7 8 8 6 9 8 6 9
7t Tulsa 129½ 8 6 9 6 7 8 7 8 8 7 7 8 8 9 8 8
9 Nevada 144 9 9 8 9 9 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 7 9 7

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