1993 Preseason Consensus

See the "notes" file for information on the preseason consensus. See the "1993 accuracy" file for a comparison between 1993 preseason predictions and final conference standings.

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Atlantic Coast Conference Predictions
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Mid-American Conference Predictions
Pacific 10 Conference Predictions
Southeastern Conference Predictions
Southwestern Conference Predictions
Western Athletic Conference Predictions

National Top 25

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Florida State	357	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1
2	Michigan	341	3	3	3	2	1	2	2	1	3	4	5	2
3	Alabama	340	1	2	2	4	3	3	5	3	2	2	2	3
4	Texas A&M	301	5	5	6	3	5	5	17	5	5	6	4	5
5	Miami (Fla)	289	4	6	4	12	6	11	6	6	4	13	6	4
6	Syracuse	272	14	4	9	10	8	4	3	8	7	3	8	12
7	Notre Dame	271	7	7	5	11	7	15	14	7	6	7	9	6
8	Nebraska	270	12	8	7	8	11	7	4	11	9	5	3	17
9	Colorado	262	11	9	13	5	4	8	7	4	11	14	-	9
10	Florida	247	10	15	10	7	13	6	9	13	8	8	7	19
11	Tennessee	245	9	10	12	9	9	10	12	9	10	12	-	10
12	Washington	233	8	11	8	16	10	9	15	10	14	15	-	8
13	Arizona	206	6	12	-	13	17	13	10	17	16	9	10	13
14	Georgia	191	18	13	11	15	16	12	11	16	-	10	-	14
15	Penn State	178	23	16	14	14	14	16	18	14	15	17	-	18
16	Stanford	174	19	14	15	6	12	-	8	12	-	-	-	7
17	Ohio State	154	13	21	16	-	15	18	22	15	23	19	-	11
18	Southern Cal	153	-	17	23	20	18	19	13	18	12	18	-	16
19	Boston College	128	21	25	20	19	19	22	-	19	19	20	-	15
20	Oklahoma	101	25	22	21	17	-	24	21	-	-	11	-	25
21	Clemson	90	15	23	22	-	-	14	-	-	13	-	-	-
22	Brigham Young	85	20	18	-	-	-	23	-	-	24	16	-	21
23	North Carolina State	78	-	19	19	-	-	21	16	-	-	-	-	24
24	North Carolina	73	-	20	17	24	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	23
25	Mississippi State	62	-	24	25	-	-	17	24	-	25	-	-	-

Others receiving votes:

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
26	Fresno State	55	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	20	-	22	-	-
27	Mississippi	54	-	-	-	-	-	20	23	-	-	-	-	20
28	Texas	51	24	-	24	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-
29	Arizona State	46	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	21	-	-
30t	San Diego State	41	-	-	-	21	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-
30t	Iowa	41	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
32t	Georgia Tech	40	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
32t	Kansas	40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	-
34	South Carolina	39	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
35	Virginia	38	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-
36	UCLA	37	-	-	-	25	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-
37	Louisville	36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	-
38t	Michigan State	35	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38t	Wisconsin	35	-	-	-	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38t	Baylor	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	-
38t	Nevada-Reno	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22
42	Auburn	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	-
43	Memphis State	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-
44	Washington State	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-	-	-	-

Conference predictions

Atlantic Coast

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Florida State	12	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	North Carolina	38	4	3	4	2	5	4	4	2	3	2	2	3
3	Clemson	40	2	4	2	6	2	2	5	6	2	3	4	2
4	North Carolina State	42	6	2	3	3	3	3	2	3	6	4	3	4
5	Virginia	61	5	6	6	5	4	6	3	5	5	5	6	5
6	Georgia Tech	62	3	5	5	7	6	5	6	4	4	6	5	6
7	Wake Forest	90	9	9	9	4	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	8
8	Maryland	94	8	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	7
9	Duke	101	7	8	8	9	7	9	9	9	9	8	9	9

Big East

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Miami (Fla)	17	1	2	1	2	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	1
2	Syracuse	19	2	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	2	1	2	2
3	Boston College	36	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
4	West Virginia	53	6	5	4	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
5	Rutgers	57	5	4	5	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5
6	Virginia Tech	72	4	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7
7	Pittsburgh	83	7	7	7	6	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	6
8	Temple	95	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8

Big 8

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Nebraska	16	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	1
2	Colorado	23	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	1	2	3	3	2
3	Oklahoma	34	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	2	2	3
4	Kansas	48	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
5	Oklahoma State	70	6	5	6	7	6	6	5	6	5	7	5	6
6	Missouri	74	5	6	5	8	8	5	6	7	6	5	6	7
7	Kansas State	79	7	8	7	6	4	7	7	5	8	8	7	5
8	Iowa State	88	8	7	8	5	7	8	8	8	7	6	8	8

Big Ten

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Michigan	13	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Penn State	31	5	2	3	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
3	Ohio State	34	2	3	1	6	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
4	Iowa	61	3	6	4	7	3	4	5	6	5	7	7	4
5	Michigan State	66	4	5	5	5	7	6	7	4	7	5	6	5
6	Wisconsin	71	6	4	6	3	6	5	6	8	6	8	6	7
7	Illinois	72	8	7	7	4	8	7	4	5	4	8	4	6
8	Indiana	89	7	8	9	8	5	9	9	7	9	4	5	9
9	Purdue	110	9	9	8	9	9	10	8	9	10	9	9	11
10	Northwestern	122	10	10	11	11	10	11	10	10	8	11	10	10
11	Minnesota	123	11	11	10	10	11	8	11	11	11	10	11	8

Big West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Nevada	17	-	2	1	2	-	1	2	4	1	2	-	2
2	Utah State	18	-	1	3	4	-	3	1	2	2	1	-	1
3	San Jose State	30	-	4	4	3	-	2	3	5	3	3	-	3
4	Northern Illinois	34	-	5	2	1	-	6	5	1	5	4	-	5
5	UNLV	42	-	7	5	5	-	5	4	3	4	5	-	4
6	Louisiana Tech	57	-	3	9	6	-	4	8	6	8	7	-	6
7	New Mexico St.	63	-	6	7	7	-	7	6	9	6	8	-	7
8	Pacific	67	-	8	6	9	-	8	7	7	7	6	-	9
9	SW Louisiana	77	-	9	8	8	-	9	9	8	9	9	-	8
10	Arkansas State	90	-	10	10	10	-	10	10	10	10	10	-	10

Mid-American

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Central Michigan	22	-	1	2	5	-	2	-	5	4	2	-	1
2	Akron	23	-	2	4	4	-	1	-	4	5	1	-	2
3t	Toledo	24	-	3	5	3	-	4	-	1	2	3	-	3
3t	Miami (Ohio)	24	-	4	1	2	-	3	-	2	3	5	-	4
5	Bowling Green	28	-	6	3	1	-	5	-	3	1	4	-	5
6	Ball State	51	-	5	6	6	-	6	-	8	7	7	-	6
7	Western Michigan	54	-	7	7	8	-	7	-	6	6	6	-	7
8	Ohio University	67	-	9	8	7	-	9	-	7	10	8	-	9
9	Kent	68	-	8	9	9	-	8	-	9	8	9	-	8
10	Eastern Michigan	79	-	10	10	10	-	10	-	10	9	10	-	10

Pacific 10

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Washington	23	2	1	2	3	1	1	4	1	2	2	2	2
2	Arizona	27	1	2	1	2	5	2	2	4	3	1	1	3
3	Southern Cal	36	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	3	1
4	Stanford	40	3	3	3	1	2	5	1	2	6	6	4	4
5	Arizona State	68	6	5	5	6	8	6	5	6	4	4	8	5
6	UCLA	74	8	7	7	5	6	4	7	8	5	5	6	6
7	Oregon	82	5	6	6	7	4	9	9	7	8	7	5	9
8	Washington State	93	9	9	9	8	9	7	6	5	7	9	7	8
9	Caliornia	97	7	8	8	9	7	8	8	9	9	8	9	7
10	Oregon State	120	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Southeastern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
East
1	Florida	15	1	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Tennessee	24	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2
3	Georgia	33	3	2	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3
4	South Carolina	50	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	5
5	Vanderbilt	59	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	4	5	4
6	Kentucky	71	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	6
West
1	Alabama	12	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Mississippi	35	2	3	2	2	4	3	2	4	4	4	3	2
3	Mississippi St.	39	5	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	4	6
4	Auburn	43	3	5	5	4	2	6	4	2	5	2	2	3
5	Arkansas	53	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	3	5	5	4
6	Louisiana St.	70	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	5

Southwestern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Texas A&M	11	1	1	1	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Texas	28	2	2	4	-	2	2	3	2	2	3	3	3
3	Baylor	34	3	3	2	-	4	3	2	3	3	5	4	2
4	Texas Tech	47	5	6	3	-	5	4	4	4	4	4	2	6
5	Houston	55	4	5	6	-	3	6	6	6	6	2	6	5
6	Rice	56	6	4	5	-	6	5	5	5	5	6	5	4
7	Texas Christian	79	7	7	7	-	8	7	7	7	8	7	7	7
8	Southern Methodist	86	8	8	8	-	7	8	8	8	7	8	8	8

Western Athletic

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	NCAA	Athlon	C&PFN	Lee Corso's	Inside Sports	Football Action	Street & Smith	Game Plan	Feist	Peter- sen's
1	Brigham Young	14	1	1	1	-	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	1
2	Fresno State	23	3	3	2	-	1	2	2	1	2	2	3	2
3	San Diego State	30	2	2	3	-	3	4	3	2	3	3	2	3
4	Hawaii	51	5	4	4	-	6	5	4	4	7	4	4	4
5	Utah	64	4	5	6	-	5	7	5	7	4	6	7	8
6	Air Force	65	6	6	5	-	7	6	6	6	5	7	5	6
7	Wyoming	72	7	7	8	-	4	3	8	8	6	8	6	7
8	Colorado State	83	8	8	9	-	9	9	9	5	8	5	8	5
9	New Mexico	93	9	9	7	-	8	8	7	9	9	9	9	9
10	Texas-El Paso	110	10	10	10	-	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10