NCAA Football 09: An Opinionated Look at the Top 25 Teams

[RaychelSnr]

Jeremy Hartman checks in today with a look at who he believes should be the Top 25 teams in the country in NCAA Football 09 when the game is released later this summer. Check out his article here.

"The release of EA Sports' latest installment of NCAA Football will be on shelves in roughly two months. Reports have already surfaced about the Top 25 teams in NCAA '09 and the beta team ratings have even been posted on OS. So today I will give my own personal take on who the Top 25 teams should be and how their top players should stack up once the ratings are officially completed."

[Brandwin]

You left out Baylor...

[rupe]

The screenshots show the bearcats as #24, not Wake. Goooooooooooo Bearcats!!!

[ChaseB]

He ranked the teams as he saw fit as well, sorry if that's not entirely clear in the title.

[WatchdogXC]

I think Chris Wells will be a beast for OSU on the game as well.

[RaychelSnr]

Not a bad Top 25 for NCAA when you look how close Jeremy got on a lot of predictions.

[DTX3]

Re: NCAA Football 09: An Opinionated Look at the Top 25 Teams

That SC defense is going to be sick.

[jhartman01]

As I was looking over the beta screen shots I was pleasantly surprised at how close the predictions were. Tim Tebow is indeed the highest rated QB and Laurinitis is the highest rated defensive player. Of course, those two weren't hard to predict...

[AuburnAlumni]

Re: NCAA Football 09: An Opinionated Look at the Top 25 Teams

After seeing the EA ratings this year, I'm gonna go ahead and put money on

1. Florida State, Georgia, Ohio State, and USC being #1-4 in total defense, scoring defense, passing defense, rushing defense, home defense, nuclear defense, etc.

2. Florida State will destroy everyone in their path in the ACC, rolling up 500 yards of offense a game and giving up 89 yards a game.

3. Florida will go from the 39th best defense in the nation to the 5th best defense in the nation.

4. Oklahoma will shrug off losing their best WR and starting tailback and set Big 12 records for total offense, averaging 752 yards a game.

5. Georgia will breeze through the SEC, winning their conference games by an average score of 52-12. Ohio State will trounce all in their path, winning their games by an average score of 50-13.

6. Kansas will lose 5 games.

7. Auburn will finish 4th in the SEC West, and go 6-6.

I'm headed to the bank right now to pull out my life savings and head to Vegas to place my bets.

[BlackJack]

get them badgers back in the top ten

I have a feeling that the bulldogs won't do as good as they have been touted

[ronnyballgame]

I think Florida State will be easily a Top 15 team on there

[dbrandon]

Where's ND, they should be no lower then 12.

[peteykirch]

Re: NCAA Football 09: An Opinionated Look at the Top 25 Teams

LMFAO Pitt at 19.

Yes McCoy is great. He is running behind an even worse offensive line.

They have no proven QB.

McKillop is a tackling machine.

That WVU win automatically put them into the Top 25 on everyones list.

[shyvoodoo]

You left out Baylor...

....and so has the Big 12 and the rest of th College Football world....

[Scott]

Re: NCAA Football 09: An Opinionated Look at the Top 25 Teams

Where's ND, they should be no lower then 12.