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Preseason Coaches' poll

Rank Team .....'05 Record.....Votes...Previous

1 Ohio St.......(28) 10-2......1,487.....4
2 Texas.........(11) 13-0......1,378.....1
3 Notre Dame.(9) 9-3.........1,348.....11
3 USC............(1) 12-1........1,348.....2
5 Oklahoma...(13) 8-4.........1,320.....22
6 Auburn.......(1) 9-3..........1,206.....14
7 West Virginia...11-1..........1,202.....6
8 Florida.............9-3...........1,054.....16
9 LSU................11-2.........1,037......5
10 Florida St.......8-5............874........23
11 Miami............9-3............839........18
12 California........8-4...........798.........25
13 Louisville........9-3...........785.........20
14 Georgia.........10-3.........784.........10
15 Michigan........7-5...........778
16 Virginia Tech..11-2.........591..........7
17 Iowa.............7-5...........519
18 Clemson.........8-4...........493.........21
19 Penn St.........11-1.........406..........3
20 Oregon..........10-2.........373.........12
21 TCU...............11-1.........270.........9
22 Nebraska.........8-4..........261.........24
23 Tennessee......5-6..........216
24 Alabama..........10-2.........210........8
25 Texas Tech......9-3..........198.........19
 
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where is boise st?

did ABC piece this poll together so they could showcase #1 vs #2?
 
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Boise St got 46 votes..



Arizona State (7-5) 182; Boston College (9-3) 87; Utah (7-5) 84; Arkansas (4-7) 64; South Carolina (7-5) 55; Boise State (9-4) 46; Wisconsin (10-3) 37; UCLA (10-2) 29; Georgia Tech (7-5) 28; Fresno State (8-5) 14; Tulsa (9-4) 11; Iowa State (7-5) 9; Minnesota (7-5) 9; Maryland (5-6) 8; Purdue (5-6) 7; Texas A&M (5-6) 6; Memphis (7-5) 5; Nevada (9-3) 3; Texas-El Paso (8-4) 3; Arizona (3-8) 2; Brigham Young (6-6) 2; Northern Illinois (7-5) 2; Northwestern (7-5) 2; Oregon State (5-6) 2; Rutgers (7-5) 2; Colorado (7-6) 1; Duke (1-10) 1.


The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 63 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. This season?s board: Chuck Amato, N.C. State; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Mike Bellotti, Oregon; Jack Bicknell, Louisiana Tech; Larry Blakeney, Troy; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tommy Bowden, Clemson; Jeff Bower, Southern Miss; Gregg Brandon, Bowling Green; Art Briles, Houston; Mack Brown, Texas; Watson Brown, UAB; John Bunting, North Carolina; Bill Callahan, Nebraska; Lloyd Carr, Michigan; Larry Coker, Miami (Fla.); Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State; Darrell Dickey, North Texas; Bill Doba, Washington State; Randy Edsall, Connecticut; Dennis Franchione, Texas A&M; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Joe Glenn, Wyoming; Walt Harris, Stanford; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Pat Hill, Fresno State; Terry Hoeppner, Indiana; Brady Hoke, Ball State; Brian Kelly, Central Michigan; Steve Kragthorpe, Tulsa; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Rocky Long, New Mexico; Sonny Lubick, Colorado State; Dan McCarney, Iowa State; Les Miles, LSU; Shane Montgomery, Miami (Ohio); Joe Novak, Northern Illinois; Houston Nutt, Arkansas; Tom O?Brien, Boston College; George O?Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Bobby Petrino, Louisville; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia; Bobby Ross, Army; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Howard Schnellenberger, Florida Atlantic; John L. Smith, Michigan State; Mark Snyder, Marshall; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Jeff Tedford, California; Joe Tiller, Purdue; Dick Tomey, San Jose State; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tyrone Willingham, Washington; Ron Zook, Illinois.

The AFCA prohibits coaches from voting for schools on major NCAA probation.
 
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I think this is a pretty solid pre-season rating of the top teams but I see Oklahoma falling in the next vote as a result of this week's dismissal of Bomar and Quinn. They will probably land around #15 in my opinion.
 
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AR182 said:
i'm not a fan of preseaon polls but for discussion where would you put boise st.?
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around 18

i think they beat orest and fresno at home and the game at Utah will be what decides whether they go undefeated (i suspect they lose to the Utes).

with 18 returning starters and a very tough home field advantage and a weak schedule, they should go undefeated in the WAC.

if they win at Utah they should bein the top 10.
 
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around 18

i think they beat orest and fresno at home and the game at Utah will be what decides whether they go undefeated (i suspect they lose to the Utes).

with 18 returning starters and a very tough home field advantage and a weak schedule, they should go undefeated in the WAC.

if they win at Utah they should bein the top 10.
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then who would you knock out of the top 25...
 
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I am so glad ASU isn't top 25...less respect the better with that team...they let success go to their heads to easy.
 
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Marra said:
I am so glad ASU isn't top 25...less respect the better with that team...they let success go to their heads to easy.
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I think ASU will be very good this year... I'm glad they're not in the 25
 
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AR182 said:
then who would you knock out of the top 25...
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pennst
clemson
alabama

i see all those teams losing at least 4 games thie year.

now..do i think those Boise is better than those teams? mmmmm, tough to say this early on.

but i would vote how i see the final standings to be,
considering schedule and such. not how good i think the teams are right now. maybe that's a flaw in my thinking....
 
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The nation's coaches obviously realize the Longhorns have a lot of talent because I don't remember a team starting off this high without a quarterback who has ever played a down of college football. Of course, Texas went 13-0 last year and has a 20-game winning streak, plus 14 starters returning.

The Longhorns were No. 2 behind USC all of the 2005 season before turning the tables on the Trojans with a 41-38 victory in the Rose Bowl for the National Championship.

The showdown between No. 1 and No. 2 won't take nearly as long this season because the Longhorns and the Buckeyes will face off in Austin on September 9. This is the sixth consecutive season the Longhorns have opened in the Top 10 and the third time in the last four years they have been ranked in the Top Five. It is the first time since the poll began in 1982 that the Horns have made six consecutive appearances in the Top 10.

"I've always believed we shouldn't have polls until October, when we have a chance to see what a team is really like," said Texas' head coach Mack Brown. "But since there are pre-season polls, I always go back to what Coach Royal told us years ago when he said, 'Pre-season polls are like a beauty contest. But if somebody's gonna enter you, you'd like to win.'

"Our guys saw last year that the most important thing is to focus on your immediate goal and not worry about rankings because it is where you are at the end of the season that matters. But, it is a whole lot easier to get to No. 1 from No. 2 than it is from No. 20."
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Yes, Duke got 1 vote in the poll, despite going 1-10 last year, and, well, being Duke. The culprit? Steve Spurrier. Spurrier doesn't just slant the poll in favor of his own team, he does for teams he used to work for. Here's what he had to say about it.

"Yeah, I claim that. I've been voting for the boys from Duke since, oh, about 1990, whenever I started voting on that poll. I just want 'em to know that I haven't forgotten about 'em and I appreciate everything they did for me. That's why I did it."

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Maybe he should have just sent Duke a dozen roses.
 
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