Projected Preseason AP Top 26 (by Phil Steele)

From their performance and lack of improvement it doesn't seem so.

 

here's another Top 25 ranking that has a great track record of accurately predicting the preseason AP Top 10: "how close have we come to predicting what the AP Poll releases in August? Very close! In five of the last nine years, the Early Bird Preview has nailed 9 out of the Top 10 teams. Only once in 9 preseasons have we scored less than 8 out of 10." and they show the results of how each of their predictions since 2004 stack up against the preseason AP poll

this is what they have for 2013:

SEC West
#1 Bama
#5 Texas A&M
#12 LSU
#25 Ole Miss

SEC East
#4 Georgia
#9 South Carolina
#10 Florida

Pac
#2 Stanford
#3 Oregon
#16 Oregon State
#21 USC

Big Ten
#7 Ohio State
#18 Northwestern
#19 Wisconsin
#20 Nebraska
#23 Michigan State

ACC
#11 Clemson
#14 Florida State

Big XII
#13 Texas
#15 Oklahoma
#22 TCU
#24 K State

Other
#6 ND
#8 Louisville
#17 Boise State

 

ND still ranked. Biz as usual.

 

Like the '09 LSU/Bama game? That was a blatant one sided game for the refs.

 

Haha thats good chit Tap. How that game wasn't scrutinized i'll never know. If ever there was a game of refs on a payroll that'd be it.

 

I could give a shyte about preseason polls. We'll end up where our record takes us.

 

ATM at 5 is a joke. They lost more starters than us but because they play Bama early, they HAVE to be ranked high!

 

Bama looses to LSU and AnM this year. I have a feeling we will field a hell of an offense and a defense that is as good as ever. 38-27 LSU over Bama. I can feel it bro. Nicky gonna have a melt down. Manziel is gonna be contained by us with little problem. If we are passing as much in practice as I think we are. Our safety and corners are gonna be awesome at defending the pass.

 

Man, I want to believe that BAD. But for the last 5 years, we've heard the offense is going to take a big jump for a slew of reasons (JJ finaly grasping the offense, new OC Kragthorpe, new QB Mettenburger, now it's Cameron.

I'm going to take a wait and see attitude this year