re: ESPN Prestige Rankings

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"Negatives: Ole Miss hasn't had a major bowl appearance since the 1969 season"

I guess they didn't take this year into account

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I have to assume they only consider the Rose, Sugar, and Orange Bowl as major bowl games. The Fiesta is currenly a major bowl, but it's pretty modern. The Cotton Bowl was the other "major 4" back in the 40-70's.

Depending on how the probation years hurt us, the UF-FSU outcome should be interesting. Everything is almost identical in terms of # of top 5's, major bowl games, rankings in the AP. However, UF has more national titles and Heismans. The only other real difference seems to be in the rankings between 6-10, where UF has more.

should be 3rd in SEC behind bama and florida

# 7 behind usc, bama, notre dame, michigan, florida , miami ..not in that order. i think the 90's could factor us being 8 - 12, cant see fsu being ahead of us even with there success in the 90's

What if this was for baseball, LSU would have to be #1 or 2

while LSU only has.150? Michigan hasnt hasn'twon many championships.Why does Michigan have 350 National Championship points, w

Well, we already know that Miami is 10th from Pat Forde's article on black coaches today.

So that means I was wrong... We'll be 9th if we beat out Tennessee, 11th if we didn't. I feel strongly that 12-15 will be Georgia, Florida, Florida State, and Penn State.

Today, Arkansas was ranked 19th and Texas A&M was 20th. Pretty interesting considering the conversation we had a while back with an Arkansas fan stating that Arkansas was better than LSU leading up to the 90s...

I know this is kinda geeky, but I think it is pretty cool to see where your school lines up based on an objective criteria...

Everyone this is what I came up with for us missing a couple components...

National Championships - 3 (3 x 25 = 75 points)
Major Bowl Appearances - 22 (22 x 10 = 220 points)
Major Bowl Wins - 11 (11 x 10 = 110 points)
Best Win/Loss in Conference - 9 (9 x 10 = 90 points)
Final AP Top 5 - 8 (8 x 10 = 80 points)
Heisman Winner - 1 (1 x 8 = 8 points)
Final AP 6-10 Finish - 11 (11 x 6 = 66 points)
Conference Champinoship Game Bonus - 1 (1 x 5 = 5 points)
Final AP Top 11-25 Finish - 13 (13 x 4 = 52 points)
Bowl Appearance (non big) - 18 (18 x 3 = 54 points)
Bowl Wins (non-big) - 10 (10 x 3 = 30 points)
10+ win season - 9 (9 x 2 = 18 points)
Weeks as AP #1 - ?
Wins over AP #1 - ?
Consensus All-Americans - ?
First Round NFL Draft Pick since '70 - 19 (19 x 1 = 19 points)
Losing Seasons - 19 (19 x 2 = -38 points)
Probation - ?

Total - 789


Not sure how they will break down our probation. I found the page in media guide about 1st team all-americans but not consensus all-americans. No idea where to find wins over ap #1 and weeks spent as #1 in ap. I figure we will fall around #10 and #12 in the rankings and be around 825 I suppose as our total score.