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Three MWC Teams Ranked in Preseason USA Today Top 25
August 07, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Mountain West Conference has
three football teams ranked the Preseason USA Today Coaches’ Top 25 poll.TCU is the MWC’s highest-ranked team at No.
17, followed by Utah at No. 18 and BYU at No. 24. This is the first time in the
Bowl Championship Series era that three teams from a non-automatic-qualifying
conference have appeared in the preseason Coaches’ poll.
TCU closed out the 2008 campaign with an 11-2 record and
ranked seventh in the USA Today Coaches’ poll after defeating nationally-ranked
Boise State in the 2008 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. The
season-ending ranking matched its highest since 1959 (No. 7 in AP poll). The
Horned Frogs enter 2009 ranked 17th, marking their highest preseason ranking
since 1960 when they started the year 11th.
Defending MWC champion Utah enters 2009 at No. 18 after
defeating Alabama in the Allstate Sugar Bowl to conclude the 2008 season as the
nation’s only unbeaten team at 13-0, and ranked No. 4 in Coaches’ poll.The No. 18 ranking is the highest preseason
start in the poll for the Utes, who enter the season with the nation’s longest
active overall (14) and bowl (8) win streaks.
BYU is No. 24 in the preseason poll, marking the second
consecutive year the Cougars enter the season in the top 25. Last year, BYU
ranked No. 17 in the preseason Coaches’ poll. The Cougars finished 2008 with a
10-3 record and a No. 21 ranking in the Coaches’ poll.
2009 Preseason USA Today Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses and total points received)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Mountain West Conference has
three football teams ranked the Preseason USA Today Coaches’ Top 25 poll.
