NCAA Football: Far too early power rankings

Whats that?  Its the middle of the summer and football is still months away?  Its time to hit the old standby of predicted power rankings!

These rankings are of course likely to be wrong, but it is important to get them out and start looking at which teams might be risers and fallers based on the program's picks for them in season.  This first go through is a simple rating based mostly on returning depth and contribution, recruiting rankings, and the teams recent history.  Likely next week I'll have a post that will have simulated the entire college football season to see where it will put teams.  This first pass is also what I use early in the season to make predictions, and help smooth the numbers until the season is a few weeks old.

 In general, the top 25 feels about right with two teams standing out that I think will be far worse off than the program likes early on.  Florida State took a tumble last year under direction of Willie Taggert, and they now are facing the loss of Deandre Francois and an offensive line that has been a sieve.  The program sees the previous two years and strong recruiting and thinks maybe last year was a blip.  The same thing goes for Louisville, who fell tremendously and I don't think they'll be able to move up much past that.  They've got a lot of returning production, but that production was bad last year. 

On the other side, Utah is likely far too low, as still is likely Boise State. Utah returns a lot of talent, and has been on a nice upswing the last few years in the Pac-12, with relatively little competition outside of USC in the South.  The Broncos continue to be the class of the Mountain West, and while they have to replace veteran signal caller Brett Rypien, theyve got a lot of guys to pick from to do it. 

1	Alabama
2	Clemson
3	Michigan
4	Georgia
5	Ohio State
6	Louisiana State
7	Auburn
8	Oregon
9	Oklahoma
10	Notre Dame
11	Michigan State
12	Washington
13	Penn State
14	Southern California
15	Wisconsin
16	Central Florida
17	Florida State
18	Florida
19	Oklahoma State
20	Miami(FL)
21	Iowa
22	Louisville
23	Mississippi State
24	Tennessee
25	Texas

The full rankings are after the jump.

1	Alabama
2	Clemson
3	Michigan
4	Georgia
5	Ohio State
6	Louisiana State
7	Auburn
8	Oregon
9	Oklahoma
10	Notre Dame
11	Michigan State
12	Washington
13	Penn State
14	Southern California
15	Wisconsin
16	Central Florida
17	Florida State
18	Florida
19	Oklahoma State
20	Miami(FL)
21	Iowa
22	Louisville
23	Mississippi State
24	Tennessee
25	Texas
26	Utah
27	Iowa State
28	Texas A&M
29	South Carolina
30	Virginia Tech
31	Minnesota
32	Texas Christian
33	Texas Tech
34	Kansas State
35	Houston
36	Appalachian State
37	Indiana
38	Western Michigan
39	Nebraska
40	Missouri
41	Stanford
42	Washington State
43	Boise State
44	UCLA
45	Memphis
46	Northwestern
47	Wake Forest
48	West Virginia
49	South Florida
50	Duke
51	Pittsburgh
52	Temple
53	Baylor
54	Arizona State
55	Syracuse
56	Toledo
57	Colorado
58	San Diego State
59	Kentucky
60	North Carolina State
61	Mississippi
62	Maryland
63	Boston College
64	Northern Illinois
65	Arizona
66	Southern Mississippi
67	Troy
68	Brigham Young
69	Virginia
70	Marshall
71	California
72	Alabama-Birmingham
73	Oregon State
74	Air Force
75	Louisiana Tech
76	Army
77	Vanderbilt
78	Georgia Tech
79	North Carolina
80	Tulsa
81	Cincinnati
82	Purdue
83	Southern Methodist
84	Illinois
85	Florida Atlantic
86	Ohio
87	Florida International
88	Western Kentucky
89	Arkansas
90	Arkansas State
91	Rutgers
92	Hawaii
93	Tulane
94	Wyoming
95	Louisiana-Monroe
96	Navy
97	Louisiana-Lafayette
98	North Texas
99	Georgia Southern
100	Utah State
101	Kansas
102	Eastern Michigan
103	Fresno State
104	Ball State
105	Colorado State
106	Middle Tennessee State
107	East Carolina
108	Texas-San Antonio
109	Miami(OH)
110	Kent State
111	Nevada-Las Vegas
112	Central Michigan
113	Georgia State
114	Texas State
115	Akron
116	Buffalo
117	New Mexico
118	Nevada
119	San Jose State
120	Liberty
121	Connecticut
122	Charlotte
123	New Mexico State
124	Coastal Carolina
125	Old Dominion
126	Bowling Green State
127	South Alabama
128	Texas-El Paso
129	Massachusetts
130	Rice