cartman's FOFC Top 25 college football poll, preseason open for voting
 

Howdy all,

It is that time of year again! Just a little less than a week until the 2010 College Football season kicks off. Welcome to the 8th season of the poll.

Ground Rules:

• The poll is open to all forum members. All I ask is that if you decide to participate, you send in a poll each week during the season. It helps to keep the continuity of the poll going by having a stable set of voters.
• Also, I realize that some folks do not want to start voting until after the season has started. That is fine. Voting will be closed to new submitters after the voting for the week of Oct. 9th
• The voting will open up the day after the last game of each week is played, and voting will close by kickoff of the first game of the following week. 24 hours prior to the poll closing, I will PM voters that haven't sent anything in a reminder.
• Please use the following format when making your submission (it helps cut down greatly on processing time).
  1. State University
  2. Your State
  3. State Tech
  Basically, just make sure each of your votes starts with 1 to 25, and is marked with a period after the number then a space before the team name. Any other character (or none at all) confuses the parser.
• Please keep the thread with voting submissions free of any comments about someone's vote. If there is an obvious mistake or omission, that is ok, but running commentary muddies up the thread. Comments should go into the weekly college football thread.
• Solecismic's Football Frontier College Rankings will be one of the voters.
• cartman reserves the right to reject submissions.
• USC is eligible to receive votes

So without any further ado, let the voting begin! Voting closes at 6:00pm Central, Thursday Sept. 2nd.

Here's the Top 25 from Solecismic's Football Frontier:

1. Ohio State
2. Boise State
3. TCU
4. Iowa
5. Alabama
6. Wisconsin
7. Oregon
8. Texas
9. Florida
10. North Carolina
11. Arkansas
12. Miami (FL)
13. Oklahoma
14. Georgia
15. Cincinnati
16. Nebraska
17. West Virginia
18. Virginia Tech
19. USC
20. Auburn
21. Pittsburgh
22. Clemson
23. Stanford
24. Connecticut
25. California

1. Alabama
2. Boise State
3. Texas
4. Ohio State
5. Texas Christian
6. Florida
7. Virginia Tech
8. Oklahoma
9. Iowa
10. Nebraska
11. Oregon
12. Pittsburgh
13. Wisconsin
14. Miami (FL)
15. Georgia Tech
16. Arkansas
17. Auburn
18. Oregon State
19. LSU
20. Florida State
21. Stanford
22. Penn State
23. West Virginia
24. Cincinnati
25. North Carolina

(USC omission intentional and not a protest vote - I just feel like they need to win their way onto the top 25 this season).

1. Alabama
2. Texas
3. Florida
4. Ohio State
5. TCU
6. Virginia Tech
7. Boise State
8. Oklahoma
9. Nebraska
10. Penn State
11. Oregon
12. Arkansas
13. LSU
14. Iowa
15. Miami (FL)
16. Georgia Tech
17. Cincinnati
18. Wisconsin
19. Pittsburgh
20. BYU
21. Texas Tech
22. Oregon State
23. North Carolina
24. Georgia
25. Florida State

bump

1. Alabama
2. Texas
3. TCU
4. Florida
5. Boise State
6. Virginia Tech
7. Ohio State
8. Oklahoma
9. Nebraska
10. Penn State
11. Arkansas
12. Miami (FL)
13. LSU
14. Iowa
15. USC
16. Georgia Tech
17. Cincinnati
18. Wisconsin
19. Pittsburgh
20. Florida State
21. Texas Tech
22. Oregon State
23. Utah
24. Georgia
25. BYU

1. Alabama
2. Boise State
3. Texas
4. TCU
5. Florida
6. Oklahoma
7. Ohio State
8. Virginia Tech
9. Iowa
10. Oregon
11. Wisconsin
12. Nebraska
13. Miami (FL)
14. Penn State
15. USC
16. Georgia Tech
17. LSU
18. Arkansas
19. North Carolina
20. Pittsburgh
21. Oregon State
22. Utah
23. Georgia
24. Auburn
25. Florida State

1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Florida
4. Boise State
5. TCU
6. Oklahoma
7. USC
8. Texas
9. Virginia Tech
10. Miami
11. Iowa
12. Wisconsin
13. LSU
14. Oregon
15. Penn State
16. Georgia Tech
17. Nebraska
18. Cincinnati
19. North Carolina
20. Florida State
21. Stanford
22. Pittsburgh
23. Oregon State
24. Georgia
25. West Virginia

1. Alabama
2. Iowa
3. Ohio State
4. Boise State
5. TCU
6. Florida
7. Texas
8. Oklahoma
9. Virginia Tech
10. Oregon
11. Oregon State
12. Wisconsin
13. Georgia Tech
14. Penn State
15. Pittsburgh
16. Arkansas
17. Miami (FL)
18. LSU
19. North Carolina
20. Florida State
21. Auburn
22. Utah
23. Stanford
24. West Virginia
25. Georgia

bump... Have until 6pm Central tonight to get your vote submitted.

1. Alabama
2. Ohio St
3. Florida
4. Boise St
5. TCU
6. Texas
7. Nebraska
8. Oklahoma
9. Va Tech
10. Penn State
11. Arkansas
12. Miami (FL)
13. LSU
14. Iowa
15. USC
16. Georgia Tech
17. Wisconsin
18. Pitt
19. Cincinnati
20. Florida State
21. Georgia
22. Utah
23. Texas Tech
24. Oregon State
25. BYU

I'm not a fan of preseason polls in general, but I'll put one out for continuity's sake. I dropped UNC off due to the rumored suspensions. PS cartman - I read your initial post, but are there exceptions in regards to preferred nomenclature for UNC/LSU/USC/TCU/A&M ? Or should I/we spell out Louisiana State each week?

1. Oklahoma
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Alabama
5. Florida
6. Virginia Tech
7. Miami
8. Georgia
9. Wisconsin
10. Arkansas
11. Florida State
12. Boise State
13. TCU
14. Iowa
15. Nebraska
16. Oregon
17. Penn State
18. Auburn
19. Oregon State
20. Texas A&M
21. USC
22. Louisiana State
23. Boston College
24. Pittsburgh
25. Notre Dame

I'm interesting in the answer to this too. In the past, it seemed that the most standard abbreviations & acronyms were fine (LSU, USC, TCU, BYU) and I've generally used those as well, based in part on the fact that cartman copies those over when he posts Solecismic rankings.

Abbreviations are fine. Most of them are clear, with the exceptions of UT (please specify Tenn. or Tex.) and rarely USC (most people never refer to South Carolina with this, but it did happen once) or FSU (had someone a few years back use this for Fresno State).

In the interest of disclosure, here is my list:

1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Boise State
5. TCU
6. Florida
7. Georgia
8. Oklahoma
9. Virginia Tech
10. Nebraska
11. Oregon
12. Iowa
13. Miami(FL)
14. Arkansas
15. Georgia Tech
16. Wisconsin
17. Pittsburgh
18. USC
19. Stanford
20. Oregon State
21. Utah
22. Cincinnati
23. Auburn
24. West Virginia
25. LSU

1. Alabama
2. Ohio St.
3. Oklahoma
4. Texas
5. Iowa
6. Virginia Tech
7. Miami, FL
8. Arkansas
9. TCU
10. Wisconsin
11. Nebraska
12. Boise St.
13. Penn St.
14. Florida
15. Georgia
16. LSU
17. Auburn
18. Oregon St.
19. USC
20. Florida St.
21. Pitt
22. Georgia Tech
23. Northwestern
24. Texas A&M
25. Cincinati

I don't think that'll be a problem in the near future :D (sorry Jon)