We're now on Week 1 of the 2011 Season. We've got some good rankings already with three teams in the Top 5 (Florida, Ohio State, and Georgia Tech), so we'll have some teams that are ready to take over the top spots once either Oklahoma or Alabama loses.
The Heisman Watch has three Georgia Tech players in the two through four spots with Ohio State's Jake Stoneburner at the fifth spot. Boise State's QB, Kellen Moore, has the top spot as the early favorite to win the Heisman.
Pre-Season All-Americans have been decided, so here are the tallies for players to watch this year:
Ohio State - 2 1st All-NCAA, 2 1st All-SEC
Georgia Tech - 3 1st All-NCAA, 2 2nd All-NCAA, 7 1st All-SEC, 2 2nd All-SEC
LSU - 1 1st All-NCAA, 3 1st All-SEC, 4 2nd All-SEC
Florida - 1 1st All-NCAA, 2 2nd All-NCAA, 2 1st All-SEC, 5 2nd All-SEC
Notre Dame - 1 2nd All-NCAA, 2 1st All-SEC
South Florida - 1 2nd All-NCAA, 1 1st All-SEC, 3 2nd All-SEC
Texas - 3 1st All-SEC, 2 2nd All-SEC
Michigan State - 1 1st All-SEC
Rutgers - 6 2nd All-SEC
The biggest game of the week is #8 Texas hosting for #14 Oregon for an early top-ranked match-up between two big SEC/Pac-10 teams. #18 Rutgers is visiting #22 Colorado to see who might be the first to leave the Top 25 along with #25 Maryland visiting South Bend to take on #13 Notre Dame. Here is the full schedule for this week:
Maryland at Notre Dame (acabra2)
TCU at Michigan State (XXXplosive1)
Rutgers (BigAT4) at Colorado
Oregon at Texas (Frankysox)
Byes: Florida (Ultimate Matt X), Ohio State (FriskyTanuki), South Florida (JustnCredible29), Georgia Tech (S3anAmI), LSU (DarkTower80)