re: Sports Illustrated post-spring Top-25

Now that is a list where they put extra effort into spreading out the preseason votes. Not sure it will play out close to that in the regular season though.

Michigan and Texas are getting a lot of love for two teams that were thunderously mediocre last season. Notre Dame at least won 10 games last year with a decent schedule. Michigan and Texas are getting a lot of love for "potential" but neither coach has proven that they can turn that potential into success at their current school.

I'm not as down on Washington as most folks here are, but I think that ranking is a bit generous. Oregon is a bit of a head scratcher considering they were pretty far from being world beaters last year.

Only 4 teams from the SEC suggests that SI thinks the SEC is going to be down this year compared to most years.