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PRINTED ENTIRELY IN THE USA GamePlan Cover Photo Courtesy of Texas Christian University and The NCAA 4 2015 GamePlan COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM PREVIEW INDEX Air Force..........136 Iowa State..........47 Purdue..............75 Akron...............80 Kansas..............48 Rice................57 Alabama.............20 Kansas State........43 Rutgers.............67 Appalachian State...30 Kent State..........84 San Diego State....140 Arizona............131 Kentucky............18 San Jose State.....143 Arizona State......128 Louisiana Tech......56 SMU................118 Arkansas............24 Louisiana-Lafayette.29 South Alabama.......34 Arkansas State......28 Louisiana-Monroe....32 South Carolina......17 Army...............119 Louisville..........95 South Florida......111 Auburn..............21 LSU.................23 Southern Cal.......127 Ball State..........88 Marshall............49 Southern Miss.......58 Baylor..............40 Maryland............69 Stanford...........122 Boise State........134 Massachusetts.......81 Syracuse............98 Boston College......97 Memphis............113 TCU.................39 Bowling Green.......78 Miami-Florida......105 Temple.............108 Buffalo.............82 Miami-Ohio..........83 Tennessee...........14 BYU................133 Michigan............66 Texas...............44 California.........123 Michigan State......64 Texas A&M...........25 Central Michigan....89 Middle Tennessee....51 Texas State.........31 Charlotte...........55 Minnesota...........73 Texas Tech..........46 Cincinnati.........107 Mississippi.........22 Toledo..............87 Clemson.............94 Mississippi State...26 Troy................33 Colorado...........132 Missouri............15 Tulane.............117 Colorado State.....137 N.C. State..........96 Tulsa..............116 Connecticut........112 Navy...............114 UCF................109 Duke...............104 Nebraska............71 UCLA...............129 East Carolina......110 Nevada.............141 UNLV...............145 Eastern Michigan....90 New Mexico.........138 Utah...............130 Florida.............16 New Mexico State....35 Utah State.........135 Florida Atlantic....52 North Carolina.....103 UTEP................59 Florida Intnl.......53 North Texas.........60 UTSA................61 Florida State.......93 Northern Illinois...86 Vanderbilt..........19 Fresno State.......142 Northwestern........74 Virginia...........106 Georgia.............13 Notre Dame..........77 Virginia Tech......101 Georgia Southern....27 Ohio State..........63 Wake Forest.........99 Georgia State.......37 Ohio University.....79 Washington.........124 Georgia Tech.......100 Oklahoma............41 Washington State...125 Hawaii.............144 Oklahoma State......42 West Virginia.......45 Houston............115 Old Dominion........54 Western Kentucky....50 Idaho...............36 Oregon.............121 Western Michigan....85 Illinois............76 Oregon State.......126 Wisconsin...........70 Indiana.............68 Penn State..........65 Wyoming............139 Iowa................72 Pittsburgh.........102 6 2015 GamePlan COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2015 STAT-KEY NATIONAL PREVIEW by GamePlan Magazines The 2014 season marked the first ever College TOP 25 TEAMS Football Playoff as four teams were selected by a committee of “experts” and this was, of course, not as Rated by Stat-Key System without controversy. Big 12 powers TCU and Baylor were both left out despite impressive resumes that 1 - TCU included just one loss and they were skipped over for 2- Ohio State a one-loss Ohio State squad. Well, in the end all was 3- Alabama forgiven as the Buckeyes knocked off Alabama and Oregon to win the National Championship. Now the 4- Baylor question is whether or not Ohio State can repeat? 5- Georgia Well the Buckeyes are right in the mix, but this year we are forecasting that the Big 12 will get two teams 6- Michigan State into the Final Four as both TCU and Baylor again 7- Florida State look like super powers capable of joining Alabama and Ohio State in the 2015 Playoffs. The SEC has 8- Auburn two other prime contenders in Georgia and Auburn 9- Oregon who rank #5 and #8 in our poll, plus you could also 10 - Southern Cal make a case for Ole Miss at #11 and LSU at #14. The Michigan State Spartans will try to be the other 11 - Mississippi Big Ten team this year and they come in at #6, while 12 - Notre Dame the Florida State Seminoles remain the top team in the ACC at #7 and a decent candidate to return to the 13 - Stanford Final Four this year. Same goes for #9 Oregon who 14 - LSU will find out what life is like with Marcus Mariota and the Ducks hope they can win another PAC-12 title, 15 - Georgia Tech but face VERY strong competition from #10 USC and 16 - Wisconsin #13 Stanford. The wild card in the national rankings 17 - Oklahoma remains the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who check in at #12, but one could only imagine the pressure from 18 - Arizona State the TV folks to include Notre Dame in the Playoff if 19 - Penn State they are close to the top four come December. The bottom part of our Top 25 is filled with a num- 20 - UCLA ber of usual suspects like Wisconsin and Oklahoma 21 - Arkansas who are both a bit lower than normal, as is UCLA who 22 - Tennessee checks in at #20 in our rankings but will likely be a lot higher when the actual pre-season polls come out. 23 - Boise State What might be interesting to college football fans is 24 - Virginia Tech the return of some old favorites here as Penn State makes a return at #19, as do SEC suqads Arkansas 25 - Clemson and Tennessee who are making a big comeback after some rough seasons. One team we skipped over is Other Teams to Watch: Missouri, Arizona State who checks in at #18 and good old Oklahoma State, Texas