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I do agree, about Texas being overlooked. Colt McCoy has two years of starting experience under his belt and he's only a junior, they cannot be underestimated.

Lou Holtz needs to die already, he predicted ND to have 11 wins this year.... 11!!!!!!

Heheh, he is definitely a Notre Dame homer. I pick them to have 8 wins at most.

May is ok but I like September a whole lot more. Georgia's second game is against Central Michigan, a team that is considered the best in the MAC. I know that's not saying much on the national level but supposedly they have a high powered offense [so did Hawaii] and I'm curious to see if they can show better than Hawaii did against Ga. last season.

Good blog. It really is disappointing just homer-ish Lou Holtz is, at least try to hide your love for Notre Dame a little bit please. I agree about Texas always being overlooked, but I'm gonna go with the "homer" pick and say Wisconsin gets constantly overlooked especially by Lee Corso. There's actually a story about it in Barry Alvarez' autobiography..good stuff. Nevertheless I dont mind Mark May...every now and then he makes some pretty outlandish predictions..but I respect his college football opinions.

Texas is being overlooked for a good reason, while the offense will be solid the D needs all the 5* prospects to play to their potential, I think a 9-3 season.

Mark May is solid, especially in comparison to others...

I don't think Georgia has been disrespected. I think the consensus is that they're at least a top 3 team, #1 in my opinion. The only problem is their ridiculous schedule.

I think that everybody is a homer, it just depends on the level of you homerosity. The first thing everyone does when they see new college football rankings is look for their team. Everybody thinks about their guys and thinks their guys deserve more publicity than they get. It's only natural when their are 100+ D1-A teams.

I agree that Texas is being overlooked. Colt McCoy, especially, is being overlooked in favor of Chase Daniel and Graham Harrell.

Most overlooked - I would have said UGa before they hit the top portion of the polls last year. Reason - only 5 of their 14 games against the other major conferences came against a team other than the ACC. Of those, 1 was a loss, 2 were against teams that finished in the bottom 1/3 of their cconference. Unless you play the teams from the other major conferences, it's get hard to get noticed.

Now I would say Wisconsin. over the last 6 years they are 10-3 against the other major cconferences. 6 of the wins came when they finished lower or about the same in the Big 10 as their opponent finished in their conference (if you equate 3rd and 4th in the Big 10 to a div 2nd, etc,) The 3 losse were conference 4th against Conf 2nd Tenn by 4, conf 4th against div 2nd Auburn, and conf 3rd against div 2nd UGa by 3. reason - they find new an imaginative ways to muck up their conference season, and their offense just isn't sexy enough for prime time.

There's a reasson they call them sportcasters and sports writers and not journalists.

The next time you listen ask yourself if this report sounds worthy of a reporter with a staff. The next time you read ask yourself if this eads like someone who spent 8 hours drafting an article.

I am just going to come out and say that, yes, I am being homer. But Maryland is very overlooked and disrespected. Even when they are good they don't get talked about. Not even a mention on Gameday. Not even the UVA MD game had one mention on Gameday or CFN

You put Lou Holtz as a USC head coach. I thought he was Notre Dame? Great blog, and I agree with Texas being overlooked. I hate Mark May, even though he seems to love Tennessee.

He coached USC, ND, and I think ECU, no that is his son, he coached some other teams though.

Both teams should be disrespected, LSU is coming of the title and should be experiencing some setbacks, UGA has like half its team suspended

Holtz:
1969-1971 William & Mary
1972-1975 North Carolina State
1976 New York Jets (oopsie)
1977-1983 Arkansas
1984-1985 Minnesota
1986-1996 Notre Dame
retired
1999-2004 South Carolina
retired

Wisconsin and Maryland are good picks for being disrespected/overlooked.

Undefeated, that makes me feel a little bit better to know that my distaste for Mark May is not based completely in homer roots.

The latest report I've heard on the ranking in the Big 10 had Wisconsin as the number 2 seed. That doesn't sound like too much disrespect. Penn State should be the ones pissed. They were picked to be 4th in that conference.

I think Tennessee is being overlooked by people who follow or report on the SEC. Before you say homer pick you would be wrong. I just live in Knoxville, I am in no way a Tennessee fan.

Yeah Lou coached at ND, that is why he loves them so much. A former USC coach wouldn't love one of their rivals! Anyways I don't think that Mark May is completely terrible, besides the fact that he has a USC fetish. I wouldn't worry too much about not feeling like your team is not getting any "love" by the media. Really it is just hype. Let them hype an LSU team who's quarterback is a transfer from HARVARD?!? I don't mind Texas not getting "respect" from ESPN, they can be up TT butt all they want; they still wont win against us (as usual). Anyone else remember Kirk Herbstreit selling the crap out of Cal last 2 seasons? What happened to them last season? Bottom line, they don't know what they are talking about and they just love making sexy picks.

This is true UTbb3.

Penn St. and Tennessee are definitely good picks for being overlooked. Penn St. has to prove to me that they can beat Michigan and Ohio State before I jump on their bandwagon. I also think many people are keeping their eye on Tennessee also. I've seen many predict that Tenn. will beat Georgia.

Can't anyone win a game any more without using the disrespect motivation. Tenn is going to be good and probably close to as good as Georgia. It depends on who and how long Georgia's players will sit down.

I'm not so sure about the pick of Texas as overlooked/underrated. True, McCoy suffered behind a young offensive line last year, but Jamaal Charles would not have been as high a draft choice as he was if the line were that bad. I think that without him, Colt will struggle. Even through his great freshman campaign in which everyone decided he was the passing version of Vince Young, he always seemed a little vulnerable. Texas as a team has struggled against Kansas State of late, and KSU is nowhere near the top of the Big 12 like they were with Sproles and co. in the early 2000s. If that trend of losing to the lower tier continues this year (though they don't play KSU), they better look out: they play an OU team that I think may be the best in the country by the time all is said and done, as well as TTech and Kansas away and they get Missouri at home. Not to mention they have to travel to Colorado to face a team that I think may surprise some. Altogether, they face a tough task this season, and I'm not sure they have a chance to win their own half of the conference with the way OU looks on paper. Unfortunately for Texas, their past successes have created a scenario in which Kansas and Missouri are more intriguing and can do less and still become great stories, while anything short of a victory over OU and a south or Big 12 title will keep Texas off the national radar. I agree that Penn State is a team that's been overlooked, as they have proven themselves to have a great offense (after all, they should...they're only a few years removed from that '05 juggernaut, and still have those dynamic receivers that were freshman phenoms on the receiving end of Michael Robinson's throws that year) and the defense at Linebacker U never seems to fall too hard. I also think Nebraska is going to be a lot better a lot quicker than people think, and though I am excited to go to my first game at THE memorial stadium this year to see my Hawks play the Huskers, I'm afraid the result may not be too good. Joe Ganz showed against us in the blowout last year that he has potential to be a great QB, and I really like Bo Pelini. If he can turn that D around quick, they may hand some teams (I'm looking at you, Missouri) some deastating losses.