COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW BOOKS

[Stats85]

Here a poll to see what brand of college football preview books anyone gets:

A) Phil Steele

B) Athlon

C) Lindy's

D) Other

E) None

[Swamp Swagger]

I usually get 2 but it just depends really. Half the time while my wife is shopping I read through it in the store lol....

[dingleberryfinn]

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I buy'em all, never heard of Blue Ribbon though.
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[Swamp Swagger]

I buy'em all, never heard of Blue Ribbon though.
[/fishbowl]

That's ice cream I'm pretty sure lol

[jerwoods]

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I Buy them all as Well
Here are all the dates and mags
Athlon - U Can Pre order Now any of the 6 National SEC BIG 12 BIG TEN PAC 12 ACC But will not ship Until May 31
Lindy's SEC Out May 21 National Out May 28 For some Reason They are NOT Making ACC PAC 12 mags this year
Sporting News is Back Making Preseason Mags College Should be out May 28
USA Today Made 1 Last Year IF they make Another Should be out June 4
Phil Steele Will be out June 18
Blue Ribbon Will NOT Make a College Football Mag This Year Said on Facebook We Want to Focus on what we do Best College Basketball
And a Another 1 Gameplan - will be out in Aug If U Do not mind very few pics and small text this is the 1 to get updated Rosters Death as of Mid July pro as well

[jerwoods]

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I buy'em all, never heard of Blue Ribbon though.
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Blue Ribbon Is Underrated it comes in book form about 400 pages
The GOOD - 3 Pages of Each Team Just Talked About Last Year Lots Of Coaches Comments About 4'000 Words on Each 1A Team

Bad - Its 22.95 which is Fair for the content Only Ranks Top 25 Very Vanilla in their picks no Starting Lineup Death chart Coaches Comments are all very nice
Bland

If u want Blue Ribbon Get their College Basketball

[Stats85]

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first college football preview i bought was athlon the 2 yrs (when i was getting into college football 07 and 08) in 09 lindy's from 2010 to present phil steele kinda funny 1st heard of phil steele from youtube channel call onikuno he does videos for dallas cowboys and oklahoma football phil steele they go more in depth with predictions very good

*for some reason i usally find them @ walmart that is a few miles more than me in league city town minutes from me heading to houston lol*

my walmart in my town usally sold out

[canesfins]

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I got Phil Steele for last season and didn't like the part that all the projections were mostly him bragging about his past accurate projections. Yes he gives a lot of statistics about each team but when I go to read about the team he keeps saying stuff like "Well, 2 years ago I predicted them to not go to a bowl and was right. Last year predicted them to go to a bowl game and was right also." We get it dude. Your good at what you do, now tell me about the actual team please and not your predictions that came true.

[khaled]

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I got Phil Steele for last season and didn't like the part that all the projections were mostly him bragging about his past accurate projections. Yes he gives a lot of statistics about each time but when I go to read about the team he keeps saying stuff like "Well, 2 years ago I predicted them to not go to a bowl and was right. Last year predicted them to go to a bowl game and was right also." We get it dude. Your good at what you do, now tell me about the actual team please and not your predictions that came true.

Haha yeah the guy likes to brag.

I end up reading some of Phil Steel and Dave Campbell's Texas Football.

[Motown]

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FLORIDA


TEXAS


PAC -12


NORTHWEST


EAST COAST


MIDWEST


BIG 10


SEC


ALABAMA/AUBURN


ARMED FORCES

https://www.philsteele.com/index.html

[coogrfan]

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Steele's and Dave Campbell's Texas Football are all I need.

[Swamp Swagger]

Athlons- Florida Gator SEC mag

[Jim Jones]

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Picked up Phil Steele's mag today and I'm really growing tired of his work. I hate how every position preview for a team, he starts listing off information from 7 years ago. Like for Ole Miss, his first sentence for the QB's is about records Eli Manning broke 10 years ago. Really? Why is that relevant? I want to know about THIS YEAR'S TEAM. It seems like sometimes he just lists info to fill space, but the worst part about it is how lazy he is about it.

Compare to the 2012 and 2013 Steele mags side-by-side and you will see a lot of stuff from last year is simply copy and pasted into this year. Almost the entire section on Ole Miss QB's in this year's is word-for-word from 2012. Same for a lot of the Miami QBs section or the LSU WR section and Penn State RB section for this year. Those are just ones I noticed from quickly flipping through.

That said, given how much OLD info he has in his book, combined with the fact that a lot of it is by and large just copied from previous editions, I'm going to find it hard to shell out $10 for his 2014 magazine. Think I'm sticking with Lindy and Athlon from now on.

[canesfins]

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Picked up Phil Steele's mag today and I'm really growing tired of his work. I hate how every position preview for a team, he starts listing off information from 7 years ago. Like for Ole Miss, his first sentence for the QB's is about records Eli Manning broke 10 years ago. Really? Why is that relevant? I want to know about THIS YEAR'S TEAM. It seems like sometimes he just lists info to fill space, but the worst part about it is how lazy he is about it.

Compare to the 2012 and 2013 Steele mags side-by-side and you will see a lot of stuff from last year is simply copy and pasted into this year. Almost the entire section on Ole Miss QB's in this year's is word-for-word from 2012. Same for a lot of the Miami QBs section or the LSU WR section and Penn State RB section for this year. Those are just ones I noticed from quickly flipping through.

That said, given how much OLD info he has in his book, combined with the fact that a lot of it is by and large just copied from previous editions, I'm going to find it hard to shell out $10 for his 2014 magazine. Think I'm sticking with Lindy and Athlon from now on.

YES! I can't believe people love this magazine. I bought it last year and NEVER again will I buy it for all the reasons to mentioned. When he's not giving a full historical recap, he brags about his predictions made correctly in the past. ex. His forecast for a team goes something like this "Well 2 years ago i predicted they would surprise people and make a bowl game, and they did." I really don't care. Sometimes when reading a full page on a team in his magazine I barely would learn anything new about the team other than some random statistic from 4 years ago that he felt the need to add.

[TDenverFan]

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I picked up Steele's the other day, and it has a lot of good info. But I think I'll go with a different one next year, it does seem like he hypes himself up too much.