Yahoo's college sports affiliate, rivals.com, has been counting down the college teams all month. They started at 120 and today they did #6 (Florida, if you're interested). By my count that leaves Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Missouri, Georgia, and Ohio State as your top 5 teams.
OSU plays at USC sometime in September so that will pretty much set the season for me. Do we get thrown to the wolves in another BCS fiasco, or do we gear up for the Big Ten season and play for the Rose Bowl? (I'll fess up to the drubbing we got against Florida in the Fiesta Bowl, but I still say LSU benefited from getting to play what was essentially a home game, blecch). So all things being equal, and knowing how badly we play against the SEC, I'll take my chances in the Rose Bowl.
Also, it's going to be another long year in Fort Collins as Colorado State rebuilds under their new coach, Steve Fairchild. Rivals pegs them as the 96th best team in College football (two spots down from where they finished last year) and warns that the Rams have no quarterback (we've seen that before - as I recall, Bradley Van Pelt's first year was the season of rotating quarterback ineptitude).
OSU plays at USC sometime in September so that will pretty much set the season for me. Do we get thrown to the wolves in another BCS fiasco, or do we gear up for the Big Ten season and play for the Rose Bowl? (I'll fess up to the drubbing we got against Florida in the Fiesta Bowl, but I still say LSU benefited from getting to play what was essentially a home game, blecch). So all things being equal, and knowing how badly we play against the SEC, I'll take my chances in the Rose Bowl.
Also, it's going to be another long year in Fort Collins as Colorado State rebuilds under their new coach, Steve Fairchild. Rivals pegs them as the 96th best team in College football (two spots down from where they finished last year) and warns that the Rams have no quarterback (we've seen that before - as I recall, Bradley Van Pelt's first year was the season of rotating quarterback ineptitude).
