College Football 2007
 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2959891

USC is No. 1, trailed by SEC foes LSU and Florida
ESPN.com news services

Updated: August 3, 2007, 11:54 AM ET

Southern California picked up 45 of a possible 60 first-place votes and is easily the No. 1 team in the initial USA Today Top 25 coaches' poll released on Friday.

The Trojans, 11-2 last season but loaded as 2007 approaches, picked up 1,481 total points, easily outdistancing No. 2 LSU (1,372 points) and No. 3 Florida (1,278 points). The Tigers picked up four first-place votes and the defending national champion Gators grabbed nine.

Texas is No. 4 (1,231 points), with Michigan -- which received two first-place votes -- fifth (1,218 points).

The remainder of the top 10: West Virginia (1,205), Wisconsin (1,114), Oklahoma (1,026), Virginia Tech (1,005) and Ohio State (919). The Big Ten has three teams in the top 10 -- the most of any conference.

The Southeastern Conference has six teams in the initial top 25, including No. 13 Georgia, No. 14 Auburn, No. 15 Tennessee and No. 20 Arkansas.

Boise State, which finished last season at No. 6, opens 2007 at No. 23. Florida State, unranked at the end of a 7-6 season a year ago, opens at No. 21.

Your boys are loaded as usual RL. Glad that fraud Notre Dame was not in the top 25. :p Can't wait for the season to start!

GO LIONS!

Greetings Gents.

Just wanted to go on record, since I have not previously...

Since I was four or five years old, I knew every note of the "fight song!"

GO SOONERS!!! :lifter

As long as Mack Brown doesn't try to play Colt when he should be in a wheelchair an entire game we will do well. If our secondary is up to par this year we will be looking at another national title run, and that wouldn't be a bad way to go out as this is my last year here at Texas. Too bad we don't have the God of Football playing for us anymore... Watching Vince Young develop was an amazing experience as a sports fan, and mark my words that if he stays on the right track, he will be the Michael Jordan of Football... no doubts here.

I'll be in Dallas for TX-OU, as usual. OU has been, by far, our strongest rival these last 6-7 years. TX-A&M game has been a joke in comparison but it will feel good beating them this year because of all the cheap hits to our already injured QB in the last game. I could probably write an essay on Texas football, but I'll stop here.

Go Longhorns!

Um, I hold you in a very high regard, since you are an SF candidate.

Um, but, Longhorns...NOHA!!!:D

Holly

I hate to infringe but....

While being a lifelong fan of all Pennsylvania teams (PSU, Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, Sixers, etc), I must make you all aware - if you weren't already - of the developing beast in the Big East that is my current university.

The University of South Florida Bulls. :lifter

We won our first bowl game last year, led by Big East Freshman of the Year, Matt Grothe. Furthermore, we picked up freshman RB Mike Ford who was a 5-star recruit at Alabama before bowing to grades. We still have have a couple of the stronger defensive players in the league: LB Ben Moffitt, CB Mike Jenkins, and DE George Selvie

We play Auburn for our second game of the season. It should be a fun year; we meet Louisville and West Virginia at home this time around.

Just a notification of a dark horse out there for you guys... we have true optimism down here that Big East title contention is not out of sight.

Thanks!

I only hope you have good popcorn over there...ya'll will need it!:D

hehehe

Holly

:lifter Attachment 8080

ON WISCONSIN! GO BUCKY!

WhiskeyBoarder:

Slightly off topic.

I lived in Tampa for several years while I was at SOCOM, and love the area, but have real problems with cheering for a school with the terrorists who are members of both the staff and student body there.

I hope things get better, but just today, two more USF students were busted with pipe bombs acting suspiciously outside a Naval Weapons Station in South Carolina.

This sort of conduct by students and staff at USF reflects negatively on everyone there, regardless of what the multi-cultural, enlightened faculty may think.

Does the school attract these people, or what?

TR

You mean the Notre Dame team that laid an asswhooping on the Lions last year, 41-17. :lifter

Trust me, I understand your sentiments completely. Imagine my difficulty trying to follow any sort of Middle Eastern track in my studies in the wake of the Sami Al Arian fiasco. When he went down, as did U.S.F.'s entire staff of faculty with any ability to teach in those disciplines.

The state of the academics here for, say, international studies should be rather healthy because, as you alluded, SOCOM is so closely headquartered. But I guess sometimes the association works better in theory than in practice....

Anyway, I had dinner with the football team the other night in our cafeteria and, boy, are those kids big. I stand 6'1" and over 200 and have always considered myself "solid." After being surrounded by those beasts, I have an entirely different self-perspective. So, after such an observation, I alter previous said statement and now declare that a BCS game isn't out of our sights!:lifter


Thanks.



P.S. TR, USF is about to complete the last portions of a multimillion dollar joint training facility dedicated solely to the military ROTC programs. I hope to be utilizing this building in the coming years and I figured this might help promote your perspective of USF

ahem...LAST YEAR, circa 2006 yes?? See you in week two buddy! ;)

Just for the record,

GO BLUE!

WB...I have no doubt that the Team is filled with non-slackers. That is what I love about College Football in general...The guys are not slackers!

Holly

I hate Michigan.

That is all. Good day.

Hey...Me too !! lol

Penn State had a good day. Hopefully a sign of things to come this year.

JMI, looking forward to playing you all next week. Should be a good one.



Bandy

WVU rolled on as usual, and the game in Blacksburg was good, once VT put their mind to the task. Notre Dame's loss warmed my heart.

We'll see if South Florida can walk their talk come Sept 28!

Sorry Buddy But USF and just about every other team in the Big East has no chance against UofL go C-A-R-D-S !!!

Hope UR not talking bout UK :mad:

Not until basketball season. Then we'll talk about UK and that "other Kentucky team". :p



Bandy

Tops in The LAND
 

Geaux LSU TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to Appalachian State.

TR

We better get our game up a level or two because we looked terrible tonight!

Go Horns!

I'm with echoes- BOOMER SOONER! :lifter
Born in Norman, I bleed Crimson.

How do you feel about Georgia Tech? :munchin

We're seeing the effects of Willingham's poor recruiting. Not many seniors are starting or contributing. Nice to see you're still preoccupied with how Notre Dame does each week. I think you're a closet fan. :D

Could be worse. GT could have been I-AA. Doh.

I was at the Texas game yesterday, and yes... we looked VERY sloppy. TCU beat OU last year and it looks like they are going to beat us this year if we don't get our ---- together. Mack better be making the guys do bear crawls after that! At least Arkansas State wasn't 1-AA...

ND is typically overrated... When is the last time they won a bowl game?

I remember the times when Texas was considered overrated, and one good year with Vince Young and they come back out of the word work. :D But hey, being a ND fan comes with a need for a thick skin - losing 9 straight college bowl games will do that. Lets face it, fans and commentators are always preoccupied with Notre Dame football. Every season. Every week. Every game.

:lifter

LOL, from today's LA Times:

That other Kentucky team? You mean the NCAA 2007 Collage Football Champs! Yea, get your facts straight. ;) Go Cards!

Thanks for stopping by. You didn't heed TR's advice. Now you'll have to pay the consequence.

Good luck. This is gonna suck for you.

This isn't even a military discussion, we're talking about sports, and you're going to get me hammered?

RTK had nothing got do with it. If you can't follow simple instructions on a message board, how do you think you will fare in more challenging environments?

:munchin

I didn't get you hammered. You hammered yourself.

Failure to Follow Simple Instructions is one thing.

Getting lippy with someone who could be your commander if you ever decide to join the Army is another.

The post said do not post on this board. You are now spotlighted.

Since you were fairly warned, repeatedly, and you still couldn't follow simple instructions, you can't say you weren't told.

Clearly, you think we want to read your juvenile comments, and the only way to get you to be quiet and read only is to cut you off, so there you have it.

You can now read quietly, and serve as an object lesson for other kids.

Good luck in another branch, and on some other board.

TR

How about some more football, gentlemen?

I'd like to remind you all about one of the underdogs in the Top 25---Rutgers! We haven't been a football powerhouse since 1869 when the first college game was played between Rutgers and Princeton:

http://http://www.scarletknights.com...first-game.asp

We had a great season last year and hope for the same this year.

Go Scarlet Knights!

By the way, go Appalachian State....what a great win over Michigan!

Go Idaho!

They didn't do half bad against USC for being one of the worst teams in the US. GO VANDALS!