2011 College Football Power Rankings

Here are my preseason power rankings for the 2011 college football season.  My preseason rankings are derived by a combination of where teams finished last season, how many returning starters they have, their recruiting class and a numerical formula I came up with.

I have Alabama leading off this season as the No. 1 team in my rankings followed very closely by Oklahoma.  According to my formula they are clearly the top two teams in the country and there is a pretty decent step down after them.  LSU came in at No. 3, but I did these rankings prior to the suspensions they recently received so next week they could easily falter.  Florida State is my surprise at No. 4 then Oregon rounds out the top five.

Ranking	School	Record	LW	Next Game
1	Alabama	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Kent State
2	Oklahoma	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Tulsa
3	LSU	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. 5 Oregon
4	Florida State	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Louisiana-Monroe
5	Oregon	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. 3 LSU
6	Boise State	-	-	Sep. 3 @ 22 Georgia
7	Texas A&M	-	-	Sep. 4 vs. SMU
8	Oklahoma State	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
9	Stanford	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. San Jose State
10	Notre Dame	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. South Florida
11	South Carolina	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. East Carolina
12	Ohio State	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Akron
13	Arkansas	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Missouri State
14	Wisconsin	-	-	Sep. 1 vs. UNLV
15	Virginia Tech	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Appalachian State
16	Nebraska	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Chattanooga
17	TCU	-	-	Sep. 2 @ Baylor
18	USC	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Minnesota
19	Mississippi State	-	-	Sep. 1 @ Memphis
20	Michigan State	-	-	Sep. 2 vs. Youngstown State
21	Florida	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Florida Atlantic
22	Georgia	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. 6 Boise State
23	West Virginia	-	-	Sep. 4 vs. Marshall
24	Texas	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Rice
25	Missouri	-	-	Sep. 3 vs. Miami (OH)
Next Five: Penn State, Miami, Auburn, Michigan, Arizona State