2000 Preseason Consensus

See the "notes" file for information on the preseason consensus. See the "2000 accuracy" file for a comparison between 2000 preseason predictions and final conference standings.

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Mid-American Conference Predictions
Mountain West Conference Predictions
Pacific 10 Conference Predictions
Southeastern Conference Predictions
Western Athletic Conference Predictions

National Top 25

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Nebraska	386	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	2	-	2	1	-	1
2	Florida State	378	1	2	2	1	2	4	3	2	2	-	-	1	-	1	2	-	2
3	Alabama	353	3	3	4	6	3	6	7	3	3	-	-	3	-	3	3	-	3
4	Wisconsin	330	5	4	3	10	5	2	6	5	7	-	-	5	-	5	8	-	8
5	Miami-Florida	324	9	6	5	4	4	3	2	10	5	-	-	6	-	14	6	-	5
6	Michigan	320	4	12	6	9	6	11	4	4	4	-	-	4	-	11	4	-	4
7	Texas	302	6	7	8	7	11	8	8	9	12	-	-	10	-	4	5	-	6
8	Florida	301	10	8	7	3	9	5	5	11	8	-	-	11	-	6	10	-	9
9	Georgia	291	7	11	9	8	8	7	9	7	6	-	-	9	-	17	7	-	7
10	Kansas State	289	12	5	10	5	7	9	10	6	10	-	-	7	-	7	-	-	10
11	Virginia Tech	248	16	13	11	12	10	17	12	12	9	-	-	8	-	8	-	-	11
12	Clemson	212	13	23	16	15	18	13	13	8	14	-	-	14	-	13	-	-	15
13	Tennessee	206	14	10	12	20	12	21	-	14	13	-	-	12	-	9	-	-	13
14	Southern Cal	198	15	9	23	14	15	12	11	18	17	-	-	21	-	20	9	-	21
15	Washington	183	8	16	14	17	19	20	-	13	21	-	-	17	-	16	-	-	12
16	Ohio State	177	11	15	24	11	17	18	17	22	19	-	-	15	-	21	-	-	20
17	Purdue	175	21	14	13	-	14	10	-	16	15	-	-	13	-	18	-	-	16
18	Mississippi	168	19	19	15	-	16	14	25	17	11	-	-	16	-	19	-	-	17
19	Texas Christian	162	20	18	21	16	24	15	15	15	20	-	-	20	-	22	-	-	19
20	Penn State	128	18	-	17	13	20	-	-	19	25	-	-	19	-	10	-	-	25
21	Oklahoma	119	17	17	-	23	23	23	14	23	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	23
22	Southern Miss	105	-	25	19	21	25	24	16	20	23	-	-	22	-	25	-	-	-
23	Illinois	104	-	-	20	-	13	19	19	21	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	18
24	Texas A&M	81	-	21	25	18	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	23	-	15	-	-	-
25	Colorado	70	-	-	18	-	21	22	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14

Others receiving votes:

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
26	East Carolina	62	-	-	-	19	-	16	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22
27	Utah	59	24	-	22	22	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	25	-	-	-	-	-
28	Notre Dame	42	23	22	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
29	UCLA	41	22	20	-	-	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
30	Michigan State	38	-	24	-	-	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-	-	-	-
31	Mississippi State	30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
32	Colorado State	29	-	-	-	24	-	-	-	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
33	Auburn	28	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24
34t	Arizona State	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
34t	Toledo	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
36t	Minnesota	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	-	-
36t	Virginia	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38t	Oregon	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-	-
38t	Pittsburgh	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38t	Syracuse	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
41	Louisiana State	21	-	-	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
42	unranked	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Notes:

Football Action did not predict a national ranking.

CNN/SI's national ranking was the same as Sports Illustrated's.

The Sports Network did not predict a national ranking.

Jim Feist predicted only a national top ten.

College and Pro Football Newsweekly did not predict a national ranking.

Conference predictions

Atlantic Coast

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Florida State	17	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Clemson	35½	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2½	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Virginia	62½	3	4	3	3	3	2	3	4	2½	6	3	3	5	6	3	5	4
4	Georgia Tech	76	5	6	4	5	4	7	6	3	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
5	Maryland	87	4	5	5	6	6	5	4	5	7	3	7	6	3	5	6	3	7
6	North Carolina	88	7	3	6	4	5	4	5	6	5	4	5	5	6	7	5	6	5
7	N.C. State	111	6	7	7	8	7	6	7	7	6	7	6	7	7	3	7	7	6
8	Wake Forest	141	8	8	8	7	8	8	9	8	9	9	8	8	9	8	8	9	9
9	Duke	147	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	8	8	9	9	8	9	9	8	8

Notes:

Preview Sports picked a tie between Clemson and Virginia for second place.

Big East

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Miami-Florida	21	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	1
2	Virginia Tech	32	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	2
3	Syracuse	54	4	4	3	2	3	2	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
4	Pittsburgh	77	5	6	4	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	6	4	4	5	4	4	6
5	Boston College	80	3	3	5	6	5	6	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	4
6	West Virginia	96	6	5	6	5	6	5	6	6	6	7	4	6	7	4	5	7	5
7	Temple	120	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	7	8	6	7	7	6	7	8	6	8
8	Rutgers	132	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	7

Big Ten

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Michigan	26	1	2	2	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	2	1
2	Wisconsin	27	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	2
3	Purdue	66	5	3	3	5	4	2	5	3	5	4	3	3	4	4	6	4	3
4	Ohio State	75	3	4	6	3	5	4	3	6	3	3	4	4	7	5	3	7	5
5	Penn State	87	4	7	4	4	6	8	6	4	4	5	5	6	6	2	4	6	6
6	Illinois	93½	7	6	6	8	3	6	4	5	6½	6	7	5	3	7	7	3	4
7	Michigan State	115½	6	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	6½	7	6	7	8	8	5	8	7
8	Minnesota	124	8	8	8	6	8	5	9	8	8	8	8	8	5	6	8	5	8
9	Indiana	154	9	9	9	10	9	10	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
10	Northwestern	176	11	11	11	9	11	9	10	11	10	10	10	11	10	11	10	10	11
11	Iowa	179	10	10	10	11	10	11	11	10	11	11	11	10	11	10	11	11	10

Notes:

Preview Sports picked a tie between Illinois and Michigan State for sixth place.

Big 12

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
North
1	Nebraska	17	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Kansas State	34	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Colorado	55½	3	4	3	3	3	3	5	3	3½	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3
4	Kansas	79	4	3	4	6	4	6	4	5	5	4	4	5	4	6	6	4	5
5	Iowa State	80½	5	6	5	5	5	5	3	4	3½	6	5	4	5	5	5	5	4
6	Missouri	91	6	5	6	4	6	4	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	3	4	6	6
South
1	Texas	17	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Oklahoma	38	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
3	Texas A&M	48	3	3	2	2	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3
4	Texas Tech	70	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4
5	Oklahoma St.	82	5	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5
6	Baylor	102	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Notes:

Preview Sports picked a tie between Colorado and Iowa State for third place.

Big West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Boise State	19	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Idaho	36	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	3	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	3
3	New Mexico St.	50	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	4	2
4	Arkansas State	68	4	5	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4
5	Utah State	85	6	4	5	6	5	6	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5
6	North Texas	99	5	6	6	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Conference USA

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Southern Miss	23	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	3	2
2	East Carolina	30	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	1	1
3	Memphis	72	5	6	6	6	3	7	3	6	4	4	3	3	2	4	5	2	3
4	Louisville	80	6	4	3	5	5	6	8	4	3	3	6	4	4	5	3	4	7
5	Cincinnati	82	3	5	5	3	4	3	4	5	8	6	5	5	7	3	4	7	5
6	Houston	104	4	3	7	8	6	5	7	3	5	8	4	6	9	8	6	9	6
7	UAB	112	7	8	4	7	7	9	5	8	6	7	7	8	6	6	7	6	4
8	Tulane	113	9	7	8	4	8	4	6	7	7	5	8	7	5	7	8	5	8
9	Army	149	8	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	8	9

Mid-American

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
East
1	Marshall	29	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	2	2	1	4	1	1	4	2
2	Akron	31	3	2	2	4	2	2	1	3	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	1
3	Ohio U.	59	4	4	3	5	4	3	6	4	2	3	3	4	2	3	4	2	3
4	Miami-Ohio	65	2	3	4	2	3	5	4	2	5	5	5	3	5	4	3	5	5
5	Bowling Green	75	5	5	6	3	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	3	5	5	3	4
6	Kent	98	6	6	5	6	6	6	3	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
7	Buffalo	119	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
West
1	Toledo	19	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1
2	N. Illinois	38	2	2	3	3	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	1	2	2	1	2
3	Western Michigan	49	4	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	3
4	Central Michigan	71	3	4	4	5	3	5	6	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	4	4	4
5	Eastern Michigan	81	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	5	4	5	4	5	5	5
6	Ball State	99	5	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Mountain West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Utah	25	1	2	1	1	1	3	1	3	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
2	Colorado St.	33	2	1	3	3	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	3	3	3	2	1
3	Brigham Young	48	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	2	3	4	3	3	2	2	4	3	3
4	Air Force	77	5	6	5	5	7	3	6	6	4	3	4	4	4	5	2	4	4
5	Wyoming	92	4	4	6	8	4	7	5	4	6	7	6	5	5	6	5	5	5
6	UNLV	99	7	5	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	6	5	6	8	8	7	8	7
7	San Diego St.	118	8	7	7	7	6	8	8	8	7	8	7	7	7	4	6	7	6
8	New Mexico	120	6	8	8	6	8	6	7	7	8	5	8	8	6	7	8	6	8

Pacific 10

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Washington	25	1	2	1	2	2	1	3	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1
2	Southern Cal	33	2	1	2	1	1	4	1	2	1	2	1	2	4	2	1	4	2
3	UCLA	67	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	4	3	4	3	3	6	4	7	6	6
4	Oregon	80½	4	4	4	4	7	5	9	3	6½	3	4	4	3	6	9	2	3
5	Oregon State	84½	5	6	8	8	5	3	7	5	4½	5	7	6	2	3	3	3	4
6	Arizona State	94½	6	5	6	5	4	8	2	8	4½	6	5	5	7	5	6	7	5
7	Arizona	118½	7	8	5	6	8	6	5	6	6½	9	6	8	9	8	5	8	8
8	Stanford	120	8	7	7	10	6	7	10	7	8	7	8	7	5	7	4	5	7
9	California	147	9	9	10	7	9	9	6	9	9	8	9	9	8	9	8	9	10
10	Washington St.	165	10	10	9	9	10	10	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9

Notes:

Preview Sports picked a tie between Arizona State and Oregon State for fourth place, and a tie between Arizona and Oregon for sixth place.

Southeastern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
East
1	Georgia	25	1	3	2	2	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	1
2	Florida	28	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
3	Tennessee	49	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
4	Kentucky	69	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
5	Vanderbilt	85	5	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
6	South Carolina	101	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
West
1	Alabama	17	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Mississippi	34	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Mississippi St.	70	4	6	4	5	3	6	6	4	3	3	5	3	3	3	3	3	6
4	Auburn	72	3	5	5	3	4	3	5	6	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5
5	Louisiana St.	80	5	4	3	4	6	5	3	5	6	6	3	5	6	4	5	6	4
6	Arkansas	84	6	3	6	6	5	4	4	3	5	5	6	6	5	6	6	5	3

Western Athletic

Rank	Team	Total Points	Athlon	Sporting News	Lindy	Phil Steele	Street & Smith	Coll. F'ball News	ATS Cons.	Sports Illus.	Preview Sports	Sports Net- work	CNN/ SI	CPA Rnk.	F'ball Action	Game Plan	Jim Feist	C&PF N'wkly	Blue Ribbon
1	Texas Christian	17	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Fresno State	36	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Hawaii	62	3	3	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	3	4	3	5	3	3	5	3
4	S. Methodist	77	6	5	3	5	6	6	4	4	3	4	5	5	3	5	5	4	4
5	Rice	81	5	7	5	2	5	3	6	6	5	5	6	6	4	4	4	3	5
6	Texas-El Paso	88	4	4	7	7	4	4	2	5	6	6	3	4	7	6	6	7	6
7t	San Jose St.	129½	7	8	6	8	8	9	8	7	7½	7	8	8	6	9	8	6	9
7t	Tulsa	129½	8	6	9	6	7	8	7	8	7½	8	7	7	8	8	9	8	8
9	Nevada	144	9	9	8	9	9	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	9	7

Notes:

Preview Sports picked a tie between Tulsa and San Jose State for seventh place.