[NU Sports] R-E-S-P-E-C-T

[neonrye at aol.com]

The Preseason Coaches' Poll is out today, with the Sooners in the No. 1 slot:

    http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/2/week/1

Five Big Ten teams made the Top 25:

Wisky-10
Neb.----11
tOSU---16 (Wonder where they would be with The Sweater)
Sparty--17
JoePa---25

As for my traditional favorite category--"Others receiving votes" (since that's where we often find NU)--there are 3 more BT representattives:

Hawkeyes--41 votes (or No. "30", if the Poll went that far; not a comfortable perch for Ferentz)

'Cats----------30 votes (or No. "31"; We are definitely on "the radar"and ahead of Mich...)

Wolverines---19 votes (or No. "33")

Thus, the following BT squads got no love at all from the Coaches:

Illini
Boilers
Hoosiers
Gophers

It will be interesting to compare this poll to the final one in January.  Stay tuned, College FB fans....


Paul Levinson