(05-14-2013 11:05 AM)Crump1 Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 10:49 AM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 09:39 AM)panama Wrote:  http://www.collegefootballuniverseblog.c...p-126.html

#72 Rice
#74 UTSA
#78 MTSU
#82 South Alabama
#91 Louisiana
#93 Florida Atlantic
#96 WKU
#97 ULM
#98 Texas State
#107 North Texas
#109 UAB
#110 Old Dominion
#111 Georgia State
#112 New Mexico State
#114 Arkansas State
#122 Idaho
#124 Troy
#125 La tech
#126 FIU

Actually its not a composite ranking. A composite ranking would suggest he used a collective group of preseason rankings and he didn't.

He used three factors:
1) end of last year ranking
2) number of returning starters
3) quality of recruiting class.

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That doesn't add up either to me. I know stAte was ranked higher than probably anyone on that list last year and we return a lot of starters. Our recruiting class was not ranked as high this year (of course it doesn't count the three guys we picked up since February) but that alone couldn't account for such a ridiculously low ranking.

Although I disagree with a number of his perdictions, the one major criteria that wasn't included was schedule. How can you include his 3 criteria and not include schedules?

You could've pulled the names out of a hat and likely had a more agreeable ranking. This is just message board fodder. Move along folks nothing to see here.

Did not want to put this out this early due to very little to report this time of year. Like I did last year, I will track several prognosticators and provide a real composite. I hope to update several times a week as rankings come out.

Enjoy!

SBC Composite Football Rankings 2013

Seriously Indiana at 26? A team that has lost to Ball State 3 years running? An almost perennial doormat of the Big Ten for a while now? These rankings are terrible and while I highly doubt Kent State can repeat last years performance I would hope we would do better than that.