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The Big East will get no love, unless they have a former NFL coach. Cincinnati has a new head coach and new QB (Tony Pike is gone), so their omission was expected.

I am surprised that the University of Washington is not on there, with a potential Heisman-candidate QB. Expect there to be more Huskies (UConn!) in the Top 25 after a few weeks of the season.

The Big East will get no love, unless they have a former NFL coach. Cincinnati has a new head coach and new QB (Tony Pike is gone), so their omission was expected.

I am surprised that the University of Washington is not on there, with a potential Heisman-candidate QB. Expect there to be more Huskies (UConn!) in the Top 25 after a few weeks of the season.

I agree with all of that except UC.  Zach Collaras was better even than Tony Pike when Pike was injured.  While the New coach factor didnt hurt USC much..let alone the bowl bans and lack of recruiting power due to stripped scholarships...I dont see why last years #2 has to fall completely out of the picture.

I agree with Pitt being ranked.  They were the best team in the Big East last year and will be this year as well.  Cincy was just a fluke.

And I also agree with YMT about both Huskies getting ranked in the near future.

...and Nebraska at 8... really???  I think there's some 90's bias in the ranking groups (cough* Notre Dame *cough)

Considering the Big East lost their three best teams - Miami, Va Tech and BC - to the ACC five-ish years ago, I think they should consider themselves fortunate to have three ranking-worthy teams at all this year.  WVU has been the class of the conference since then, but it's nice to see Pitt and UC finally catching up.  I honestly thought the conference was dead after that realignment, kind of like how the Big 12 narrowly avoided extinction this summer.

Yeah, just when they're starting to get good, right?

If the Big 12 had been decimated as some thought might happen, they might both have been booted and thrown the whole system into disarray while the committee either assigns new conferences (the MAC?) or reworks their formula for selecting teams.

For my part, anything that disrupts or destroys the BCS format would be all right with me.  I have not been very impressed with the matchups they created most years, and even though they say the "real" objective is to set up the 1-2 game, even only two or three of those have been really memorable.  And that's difficult for me to say, as a Buckeye fan who saw my team play in probably THE most memorable one, but also play in two very forgettable title games.

The rankings this early don't mean a whole lot.  They do help the non-BCS teams, but for the BCS teams, if you win a lot, you'll be fine.  Week 2 is what i'm looking forward to.

Daniel

 

p.s. I also agree cincy should at least be in the top 25, that backup QB was a stud last year.