We have 16 contestants this year (the most in our 5-year history). Out of the 16 we have five different #1 picks, 10 of the 16 have at least one wild card team (not showing in the pre-season top 20) and we all rank BYU in the top 20, anywhere from #5 to #16.
A breakdown of the AP pre-season 25:
SEC (6 teams)
Big 12 (5 teams)
Big 10 (4 teams)
Pac 10, Big East, ACC (3 teams each)
Mountain West (1 team)
Conf USA, Mid America, Sun Belt, WAC and Independents had 0 teams in the AP top 25.
An analysis of 10 different top 25 pre-season polls:
-40 different teams are ranked at least once
-Georgia is ranked anywhere from #1 to #9
-USC and OSU rank between #1 and #4
-BYU's highest rank is #12, lowest is #25
-Utah shows up in four polls
-Rutgers, South Carolina, New Mexico, Notre Dame, Cincinatti and Tulsa show up once in one of the ten polls (none of us picked any of these)
