1994 Preseason Consensus

See the "notes" file for information on the preseason consensus. See the "1994 accuracy" file for a comparison between 1994 preseason predictions and final conference standings.

Jump to:

National rankings
Atlantic Coast Conference Predictions
Big East Conference Predictions
Big 8 Conference Predictions
Big Ten Conference Predictions
Big West Conference Predictions
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	Sport Magazine	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Florida State	311	1	3	2	5	1	1	1	1	3	4	8
2	Nebraska	308	4	4	5	3	4	3	4	2	2	1	1
3	Florida	306	3	1	4	8	2	2	2	3	1	2	7
4	Notre Dame	297	5	2	1	2	3	4	3	13	6	3	2
5	Michigan	282	6	6	3	4	5	5	5	12	4	5	4
6	Colorado	268	2	8	7	11	6	6	6	6	9	6	6
7	Miami (Fla)	254	9	5	6	1	7	11	7	9	5	7	-
8	Arizona	229	7	9	11	21	11	13	11	4	7	8	10
9	Alabama	222	12	7	9	16	13	7	13	5	16	9	12
10	Penn State	216	8	10	8	17	10	8	10	11	8	-	-
11	Wisconsin	215	13	16	12	7	8	14	8	8	12	-	13
12	Tennessee	205	11	11	13	10	12	10	12	7	15	-	-
13	Oklahoma	181	14	23	17	6	14	15	14	10	18	-	14
14	Southern Cal	174	15	20	19	14	15	19	15	19	11	-	5
15	Auburn	168	22	14	10	12	-	17	-	14	10	-	9
16	UCLA	151	19	21	14	19	18	12	18	17	17	-	-
17	Texas A&M	150	20	22	18	18	20	9	20	15	19	10	-
18	Texas	149	17	18	16	9	-	20	-	22	14	-	11
19	North Carolina	143	18	19	15	-	17	18	17	16	13	-	-
20	Ohio State	126	16	15	23	24	16	16	16	-	24	-	-
21	Stanford	123	10	-	-	13	9	22	9	-	-	-	-
22	Virginia Tech	103	23	17	25	22	-	21	-	25	20	-	-
23	Georgia	89	24	-	-	20	-	-	-	20	-	-	3
24	Illinois	85	-	12	21	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-
25	Clemson	75	-	-	22	15	-	24	-	-	-	-	-

Others receiving votes:

Rank	Team	Total Points	Sport Magazine	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
26	Boston College	72	21	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
27	Virginia	71	-	-	-	-	19	-	19	24	23	-	-
28	Brigham Young	70	-	24	24	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
29	Washington	65	-	-	20	20	20	20	20	20	21	-	-
30	Michigan State	59	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-
31	California	56	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-	25	-	-
32	Arizona State	55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	-
33t	Kansas State	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	-	-
33t	Louisville	53	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	-	-	-	-
35t	Mississippi St.	51	-	-	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
35t	Syracuse	51	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Conference predictions

Atlantic Coast

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Florida State	10	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	North Carolina	28	2	2	5	5	2	2	2	2	3	3
3	Virginia	33	4	4	3	2	4	3	3	3	2	5
4	Clemson	34	3	3	2	3	3	4	6	4	4	2
5	North Carolina St.	51	6	5	6	4	6	5	5	5	5	4
6	Georgia Tech	54	5	6	4	6	5	6	4	6	6	6
7	Maryland	75	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	9	7	9
8	Duke	80	8	9	9	7	8	8	8	7	9	7
9	Wake Forest	85	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8

Big East

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Miami (Fla)	11	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
2	Virginia Tech	21	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
3	Boston College	37	2	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	5	6
4	West Virginia	41	5	2	3	3	5	5	4	4	3	7
5	Syracuse	45	4	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	4	4
6	Rutgers	60	6	6	7	6	6	7	6	6	7	3
7	Pittsburgh	65	7	7	6	7	7	6	7	7	6	5
8	Temple	80	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8

Big 8

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Nebraska	10	1	1	-	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Colorado	18	2	2	-	1	2	3	2	2	2	2
3	Oklahoma	26	3	3	-	3	3	2	3	3	3	3
4	Kansas State	39	5	5	-	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
5	Kansas	42	4	4	-	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
6	Missouri	59	6	6	-	7	6	7	7	6	6	8
7	Iowa State	62	8	7	-	6	7	6	6	7	8	7
8	Oklahoma State	68	7	8	-	8	8	8	8	8	7	6

Big Ten

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Michigan	12	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	1
2	Wisconsin	26	5	3	2	3	3	2	1	3	2	2
3	Penn State	30	2	2	3	4	2	4	2	2	5	4
4	Ohio State	39	4	5	4	2	4	3	5	5	4	3
5	Illinois	46	3	4	5	5	5	6	4	6	3	5
6	Michigan State	66	6	8	7	7	8	8	6	4	6	6
7	Indiana	72	9	7	6	8	6	7	7	8	7	7
8t	Iowa	82	7	9	8	9	7	9	10	7	8	8
8t	Minnesota	82	11	6	9	6	9	5	9	9	9	9
10	Purdue	100	8	10	10	11	11	11	8	11	10	10
11	Northwestern	105	10	11	11	10	10	10	11	10	11	11

Big West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	SW Louisiana	22	7	1	1	2	-	1	1	1	-	8
2	New Mexico State	26	1	2	5	5	-	5	2	4	-	2
3t	Nevada	27	5	4	4	1	-	2	5	3	-	3
3t	Utah State	27	2	3	2	7	-	6	4	2	-	1
5	Pacific	45	9	5	7	4	-	3	3	5	-	9
6	Louisiana Tech	50	6	6	6	3	-	4	10	9	-	6
7	UNLV	53	4	7	8	6	-	7	7	7	-	7
8	Northern Illinois	54	8	8	3	9	-	9	6	6	-	5
9	San Jose State	57	3	9	9	8	-	8	8	8	-	4
10	Arkansas State	69	-	10	10	10	-	10	9	10	-	10

Mid-American

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Bowling Green	15	2	2	2	1	-	2	2	2	-	2
2	Western Michigan	18	3	1	1	3	-	1	1	1	-	7
3	Ball State	25	4	5	4	2	-	3	3	3	-	1
4	Central Michigan	38	1	3	7	6	-	4	4	5	-	8
5	Miami (Ohio)	43	6	4	6	4	-	8	6	4	-	5
6	Toledo	46	5	6	5	5	-	5	9	7	-	4
7	Ohio U.	54	10	7	3	9	-	9	5	8	-	3
8	Eastern Michigan	61	8	8	8	7	-	6	8	6	-	10
9	Akron	62	7	9	9	8	-	7	7	9	-	6
10	Kent	78	9	10	10	10	-	10	10	10	-	9

Pacific 10

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Arizona	20	1	1	4	4	2	3	1	1	1	2
2	UCLA	22	3	2	3	2	1	1	2	3	2	3
3	Southern Cal	27	2	3	2	3	3	4	3	2	4	1
4	Stanford	43	6	7	1	1	4	2	8	7	3	4
5	Washington	55	5	4	6	8	5	6	5	4	6	6
6	California	60	4	5	7	6	6	8	6	5	5	8
7	Arizona State	62	7	6	5	5	7	10	4	6	7	5
8	Washington State	81	8	8	8	10	9	5	7	8	9	9
9	Oregon State	88	10	10	10	7	10	7	10	9	8	7
10	Oregon	92	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	10	10	10

Southeastern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
East
1	Florida	11	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
2	Tennessee	23	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	3	3
3	Georgia	28	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	2	1
4t	South Carolina	44	3	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	5
4t	Kentucky	44	5	3	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
6	Vanderbilt	60	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
West
1	Alabama	13	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	2
2	Auburn	17	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	1
3	Mississippi State	37	4	4	3	3	4	3	3	5	5	3
4	Arkansas	44	3	3	4	5	5	5	4	3	6	6
5	Mississippi	47	6	5	6	4	3	4	6	6	3	4
6	Louisiana State	52	5	6	5	6	6	6	5	4	4	5

Southwestern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Texas	12	1	1	-	1	2	1	2	1	2	1
2	Texas A&M	15	2	2	-	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
3	Baylor	33	3	3	-	4	3	4	3	3	7	3
4	Texas Tech	42	4	5	-	6	4	3	6	4	5	5
5	Texas Christian	43	5	4	-	5	6	5	4	7	3	4
6	Rice	50	6	7	-	3	7	7	5	5	4	6
7	Southern Methodist	60	7	6	-	7	5	6	7	8	6	8
8	Houston	69	8	8	-	8	8	8	8	6	8	7

Western Athletic

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy's	TSN	Athlon	C&PFN	Inside Sports	Football Action	Game Plan	Street & Smith	Feist	Preview
1	Brigham Young	10	1	1	-	3	-	1	1	1	1	1
2	Colorado State	22	5	3	-	4	-	2	2	2	2	2
3	Utah	23	2	2	-	1	-	4	4	4	3	3
4	New Mexico	38	9	7	-	2	-	3	3	3	7	4
5t	Fresno State	44	4	4	-	7	-	6	6	5	4	8
5t	Wyoming	44	3	6	-	5	-	5	7	6	5	7
7	San Diego State	51	6	5	-	6	-	7	8	7	6	6
8	Air Force	63	7	9	-	9	-	8	9	8	8	5
9	Hawaii	65	8	8	-	8	-	9	5	9	9	9
10	Texas-El Paso	80	10	10	-	10	-	10	10	10	10	10