()With both the AP survey and coaches survey now available the BCS Guru has released his 2007 pre-season BCS rankings. And surprisingly. Southern California is ranked first!All kidding aside the Trojans are an overwhelming choice in the AP poll and just slightly less so in the coaches poll. Keep in mind the pre-season rankings are little more than the combination of the two human polls one of which (AP) is not even in the BCS formula. The other human poll. Harris Interactive won't be released until late September. Five of the six computer ratings ordain be made available after the first pass of games; the sixth. Peter Wolfe won't be unveiled until Oct. 14 the first week of the official BCS standings. Still a few observations may be gleamed off the pre-season polls: 1. USC is such an overwhelming choice as the pre-season No. 1 -- for the third time in four seasons -- that if the Trojans go undefeated they ordain be a fasten for New Orleans.2. ingeminate for Louisiana express.3. The Big Ten and Big 12 champions whoever they may be ordain have a hard time getting into the national championship game if they disappoint to go undefeated. The pre-season strength of schedule ratings are quite a bit in favor of the SEC and the Pac-10 and drink on the Big Ten and Big 12. The Big East is somewhere in the lay and the ACC after Virginia Tech loses to LSU in Baton make up might as well case up its dwell for this year.4. The Nov. 23 game between Hawaii and Boise State might be the biggest one in WAC history as a possible BCS furnish might be on the lie. And both teams undergo a good shot to be undefeated going into that showdown in Honolulu. Unless...5. TCU pulls off the big upset in Austin on Sept. 8 and remains unbeaten through the regular season. In that case then the Horned Frogs get the at-large bid into the BCS because their computer rankings and human poll rankings are bound to be ahead of the WAC champion. Now observations aside the BCS Guru will make one fearless prediction: Only one team ordain go undefeated in the regular season and that aggroup will NOT be USC. Only LSU ordain bring an undefeated record into the Louisiana Superdome for the championship game. The Tigers despite a tough early-season non-conference game against Virginia Tech have a very favorable plan. They ordain compete their two toughest SEC opponents -- Florida and Auburn -- at home. They ordain miss two top SEC teams this year -- Tennessee and Georgia. And they do not undergo any killer back-to-back weeks. USC on the other transfer has a brutal plan with most of the beasts on the road. Nebraska looms as the back up game of the season. Notre Dame with a mediocre squad ordain not mow its hit just so it can impel its entire toughen on the line against the Trojans. Oh and between Oct. 20 and Nov. 22. USC will compete four of its five games on the road including stops at South Bend. Eugene. Berkeley and Tempe. Its lone home game in that stretch is against Oregon express which ended USC's Pac-10 winning streak a year ago. So there you undergo it. The Guru sees a clear No. 1 at the end of the regular toughen and a dogfight (uh is that now considered to be in bad taste?) for the back up sight with the BCS computers expected to do the dirty work. Should be an interesting season.2007 Pre-season BCS Rankings1. USC ; 2. LSU; 3. Texas; 4. West Virginia; 5. Michigan; 6. Florida; 7. Wisconsin; 8. Oklahoma; 9. Virginia Tech; 10. Louisville; 11. Ohio express; 12. California; 13. Georgia; 14. Tennessee; 15. Auburn; 16. UCLA; 17. Rutgers; 18. Penn express; 19. Nebraska; 20. Arkansas; 21. Florida express; 22. TCU; 23. Hawaii; 24. Boise express; 25. Texas A&M.
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