Phil Steele's 2013 Top 40 Countdown

[Motown]

2013 Top 40 Countdown:

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#40 North Carolina
#39 Kansas St
#38 Marshall
#37 BYU
#36 Baylor
#35 Tulsa
#34 Penn St
#33 Boise St
#32 Northwestern
#31 UCLA
#30 Washington
#29 Oregon St
#28 Mississippi
#27 Arizona St
#26 Northern Illinois
#25 Miami, Fl
#24 Michigan
#23 Michigan St
#22 Fresno St
#21 TCU
#20 Wisconsin
#19 Oklahoma
#18 Florida
#17 LSU
#16 Nebraska
#15 Clemson
#14 South Carolina
#13 Texas A&M
#12 Virginia Tech
#11 Stanford
#10 Notre Dame
#9 Georgia
#8 Oklahoma St
#7 Louisville
#6 USC
#5 Oregon
#4 Texas
#3 Florida St
#2 Ohio St
#1 Alabama

[seasprite]

Re: Phil Steele's 2013 Top 40 Countdown

Hope to see the Vols in this top 40 by the end of this season

[Bamafan3723]

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Texas at #4

[Chrisksaint]

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A lot of faith in Jameis Winston, if he pans out to his high expectations they could easily be one of the best teams in CFB. If not then most likely in the 10-15 range.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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VTech at #12 seems kinda high.

[TheVinylHippo]

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Texas at #4

If we hadn't blown the WVU and (especially) TCU games, we would've finished 11-2. Only game where we looked totally out of it was against OU (we had our chances against K-State), and I expected that to change dramatically this season; assuming Manny Diaz actually takes our defenders out of the Blake Gideon School of Tackling and Ash takes the necessary steps to be a consistent national title-calibur QB. Everything is set up for this team to be very good. Only thing that really worries me about our team is the back end of the secondary.

Suffice it to say, I don't think you'll be laughing by the end of the season.

[Perfect Zero]

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If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Nobody cares about the maybe's, everybody cares about the results. Texas hasn't produced and they don't show any signs of improving their lot. Ash has to improve a lot. Brown has to find his old magic. There are a ton of variables down in Austin.

[bkrich83]

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#6 USC

What in the name of all that's holy???

Has to be a typo.

[bkrich83]

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If we hadn't blown the WVU and (especially) TCU games, we would've finished 11-2. Only game where we looked totally out of it was against OU (we had our chances against K-State), and I expected that to change dramatically this season; assuming Manny Diaz actually takes our defenders out of the Blake Gideon School of Tackling and Ash takes the necessary steps to be a consistent national title-calibur QB. Everything is set up for this team to be very good. Only thing that really worries me about our team is the back end of the secondary.

Suffice it to say, I don't think you'll be laughing by the end of the season.

Longhorn fans never cease to amaze.

[Bamafan3723]

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If we hadn't blown the WVU and (especially) TCU games, we would've finished 11-2. Only game where we looked totally out of it was against OU (we had our chances against K-State), and I expected that to change dramatically this season; assuming Manny Diaz actually takes our defenders out of the Blake Gideon School of Tackling and Ash takes the necessary steps to be a consistent national title-calibur QB. Everything is set up for this team to be very good. Only thing that really worries me about our team is the back end of the secondary.

Suffice it to say, I don't think you'll be laughing by the end of the season.

I bet I will.

[xcrushx]

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Half of our opponents are in the top 40. This could be a long year.

[BigDofBA]

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If we hadn't blown the WVU and (especially) TCU games, we would've finished 11-2. Only game where we looked totally out of it was against OU (we had our chances against K-State), and I expected that to change dramatically this season; assuming Manny Diaz actually takes our defenders out of the Blake Gideon School of Tackling and Ash takes the necessary steps to be a consistent national title-calibur QB. Everything is set up for this team to be very good. Only thing that really worries me about our team is the back end of the secondary.

Suffice it to say, I don't think you'll be laughing by the end of the season.

Yeah, OU is down and Texas is a team on the rise as stated by some of their fans last year. Last year was probably Stoops' second worst team and Texas has all of these great running backs and 5 star recruits...



I just hope my team is competitive this season. We lost key players from a team that wasn't even that good by OU standards.

[tHurley2010]

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Virginia Tech @ #12? Overrated.

For the record, Nebraska is too high at #16. I'd place them somewhere in the 20 range.

[tbennett54]

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Glad to see Marshall is getting some love this off-season.

[ZB9]

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Texas is top 5 in Vegas also fyi fwiw