CFB 2013: K-State gets Hernandez'd

[Plow]

Meet Glenn Gronkowski, fullback at KSU:




And of course the whole Gronk clan went to Manhattan for the spring game last year, with Rob of course making the kind of appearances you'd expect:





and signing in to frats he visits for parties





Oh, yeah, football.

USA Today:
1 Alabama (58) 0-0 1545
2 Ohio State (3) 0-0 1427
3 Oregon 0-0 1397
4 Stanford 0-0 1262
5 Georgia 0-0 1250
6 Texas A&M (1) 0-0 1215
7 South Carolina 0-0 1136
8 Clemson 0-0 1047
9 Louisville 0-0 1010
10 Florida 0-0 930
11 Notre Dame 0-0 872
12 Florida State 0-0 844
13 LSU 0-0 797
14 Oklahoma State 0-0 726
15 Texas 0-0 622
16 Oklahoma 0-0 620
17 Michigan 0-0 589
18 Nebraska 0-0 426
19 Boise State 0-0 420
20 TCU 0-0 400
21 UCLA 0-0 202
22 Northwestern 0-0 186
23 Wisconsin 0-0 172
24 USC 0-0 165
25 Oregon State 0-0 135


ESPN Power Rankings
1 Bama
2 Ohio State
3 Oregon
4 Standford
5 Texas A&M
6 (t) Georgia
6 (t) South Carolina
8 Louisville
9 Clemson
10 Florida
11 Florida State
12 LSU
13 Notre Dame
14 (t) Michigan
14 (t) Texas
16 Oklahoma State
17 Oklahoma
18 TCU
19 UCLA
20 Nebraska
21 Boise State
22 Northwestern
23 Oregon State
24 USC
25 Baylor



So yeah, nobody taking the Big 12 seriously this year, and Pac-12 getting all kinds of credit for their big bowl wins. I'm not sure how you dump Notre Dame almost to 15 at this point given they lost basically nothing (lolteoandgols) and Kelly is fully into his own players now, and of course their schedule is damn near identical to last year.


Not even going to bother doing a "proper" top 25 according to the idiotic "unwritten rules" of ranking, so straight into this:

This is what I think will be the top 25 going into the bowls. Not even going to bother trying to predict bowls in the preseason lol.

1. Alabama- I figure they beat the hell out of A&M and nobody even challenges them.
2. Stanford- Expecting an undefeated regular season there
3. Georgia- Georgia loses 1, to SC; SC drops a fluke to Mizzou or Vandy or some shit then gets rolled by bama in SECC game.
4. K-State- I'm actually just giving this spot to whoever comes through the big 12, and of course assuming that'll be KSU. Collin Klein was special as a dual threat... Daniel Sams was already better running last year and it won't be hard to become a better passer. As long as he's not fully fucking retarded like Bishop and Beasley and Ell, he's a legit heisman contender.
5. Notre Dame- Their showdown with Stanford will be 2 undefeated teams playing on Nov 30th, and it'll be a close one; they won't fall far after it.
6. Oregon- They'll lose to Stanford without Kelly but that's all (they're a better team than last year, but with lesser coaching).
7. TCU- Beats LSU, but they'll lose one, maybe 2 between Texas, OU, Baylor, OSU, and KSU.
8. South Carolina - see georgia
9. Texas - I think there's going to be a big pile of Big 12 teams right around 10 at the end of the year.
10. Louisville- Loses retarded game no respectable team should lose while playing complete joke of a schedule, gets to be top ten anyway
11. Oklahoma
12. Baylor
13. Oklahoma State - yeah, big ole pile, expect a whole bunch of 2 loss teams from big 12, and a couple damn good 3 loss ones
14. Florida- 3 losses
15. Michigan- Ohio State loses 3 or 4, Michigan takes the big 10 unimpressively with a bad loss to ND in the big 10's biggest non-conference game
16. Clemson- looks decent, but loses to SC, Georgia, FSU
17. Oregon State - USC takes em out preventing a 2-loss season with just Oregon and Stanford
18. Nebraska
19. Wisconsin - Better than Nebraska, but Nebraska's schedule is fucking hilarious
20. LSU- Good team, but 4 or 5 losses including TCU
21. Ohio State- Just not as good as they seem on paper. When they ran the table last year they had really close games against teams that had way more to deal with mentally.
22. USC- Best they've been in a while, shouldn't have trouble ending up ranked. Expecting 3-4 losses on a schedule that doesn't include Oregon, though.
23. VaTech- Outside Bama they have quite possibly the easiest schedule in the history of "major" conference football.
24. Michigan State- There's no offense in the Big 10 right now that can run away from them against that defense. All their games will at least be close.
25. Toledo- plays close with florida, beats another sec team (mizzou), and wins the mac with ease


Honorable mention Texas A&M- I have yet to hear a denial that Johnny got paid. I'm not guaranteeing it or anything, but I don't expect him to be playing. They dodge everything scary from the east, though.


Let the fl, er, games begin.

[chazzyphizzle]

saban voting for texas a&m, we're onto you, you sly dog you

[Cail]

Terrible title, terrible thread

[Plow]

says the guy that's quoting tyven quoting a manning video as his sig

[Roranora]

plow you keep on doing your thing

preseason unranked kstate to top 5 -- i'm okay with this

[Plow]

Sad part is that's becoming a regular thing at this point.

2012 preseason: 22, into bowls: 5
2011 preseason: unranked, 0 votes, into bowls: 8

The last time we were the unranked team with the highest votes, i.e. 26, in the preseason was 2002... went 11-2 and won the holliday bowl finishing 6.

[Cail]

says the guy that's quoting tyven quoting a manning video as his sig

Best video ever

[Chrius]

Go Frogs

[Moss]

20. LSU- Good team, but 4 or 5 losses including TCU

Just wait, fucker.

[Mertron]

RUTGERS!

[Mertron]

4 Standford

get em

[Plow]

CBS CFB preview guy to Sumlin: "I've got to ask the hard question here, do you expect Johnny Manziel to be your starting QB to start the season?"

Sumlin: "Well you know last year we didn't even announce a starter until 2 weeks before the season, we've still got some time, blah blah something about other qb's blah blah."


read: NOPE LOL

[Moss]

reasonable A&M peeps I know seem fairly confident he'll be playing

would be lame as fuck if he can't

[Anoat]

I don't see how a 4 or 5 loss LSU (or any team, actually) would be ranked that high. And no FSU at all? WE ARE NOW MORTAL ENEMIES (in this thread)

[Abandon]

Hook 'Em... god we're gonna lose 4 games this year.

[Bregor]

I want Jonathan Football playing, and I want C.J. Mosley to rip him limb from limb.

Also I feel like it is very unlikely Alabama avoids injury and complacency enough to three-peat, but since they miss the SEC East's best teams I don't see them losing until the conference championship. Either way should be a hell of a ride.

[Ishido]

GO BUFFS

Going to be difficult to surpass the excellence of last season though.

[Plow]

I don't see how a 4 or 5 loss LSU (or any team, actually) would be ranked that high. And no FSU at all? WE ARE NOW MORTAL ENEMIES (in this thread)

Last year going into the bowls UCLA and Michigan were 17 and 18 at 9-4 and 8-4.

To be completely honest I thought I had FSU in there, between like 10-15. I'm expecting them to fuck with Florida, but drop some dumb games prior.

[Anoat]

Time to start posting your school's pre-season football hype videos. Here is FSU! Not really a fan of the song choice but w/e, it fits.

[Abandon]

i will post no such thing