2012 College Football Media Polls

By: Maize_in_Spartyland

 

With the release of the Big East Media Poll on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, all media pre-season polls have been released. There were some surprises in projected team order, but many of the projected standings were to be expected.

 

We have complied the media polls for each conference. Also we have included the actual finish for each team in their current conference (“2011 Finish”) and the projected standings for 2011, as projected by the media at this time last year (“2011 Media”)

 

2012 ACC Media Poll

Atlantic		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Florida State	T-2nd	1st
2	Clemson	1st	2nd
3	N.C. State	4th	3rd
4	Wake Forest	T-2nd	6th
5	Boston College	5th	4th
6	Maryland	6th	5th
Coastal
1	Virginia Tech	1st	1st
2	Georgia Tech	T-2nd	4th
3	North Carolina	T-4th	3rd
4	Virginia	T-2nd	5th
5	Miami	T-4th	2nd
6	Duke	6th	6th

 

2012 Big 12 Media Poll

		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Oklahoma	T-3rd	1st
2	West Virginia	N/A	N/A
3	Texas	T-6th	5th
4	Oklahoma State	1st	3rd
5	TCU	N/A	N/A
6	Kansas State	2nd	8th
7	Baylor	T-3rd	6th
8	Iowa State	8th	9th
9	Texas Tech	9th	7th
10	Kansas	10th	10th

 

2012 Big East Media Poll

		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Louisville	T-1st	7th
2	USF	T-7th	3rd
3	Rutgers	T-4th	8th
4	Cincinnati	T-1st	5th
5	Pittsburgh	T-4th	2nd
6	Connecticut	6th	6th
7	Syracuse	T-7th	4th
8	Temple	N/A	N/A

 

2012 Big Ten Media Poll

Leaders		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Wisconsin	T-1st	1st
2	Ohio State	4th	2nd
3	Purdue	3rd	5th
4	Illinois	5th	4th
5	Penn State	T-1st	3rd
6	Indiana	6th	6th
Legends
1	Michigan	2nd	4th
2	Michigan State	1st	2nd
3	Nebraska	3rd	1st
4	Iowa	4th	3rd
5	Northwestern	5th	5th
6	Minnesota	6th	6th

 

2012 Conference USA Media Poll

East		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	UCF	T-4th	1st
2	Southern Miss	1st	2nd
3	Marshall	2nd	4th
4	East Carolina	3rd	3rd
5	UAB	T-4th	5th
6	Memphis	6th	6th
West
1	Houston	1st	1st
2	Tulsa	2nd	2nd
3	SMU	3rd	3rd
4	UTEP	5th	6th
5	Rice	4th	4th
6	Tulane	6th	5th

 

2012 MAC Media Poll

East		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Ohio	1st	2nd
2	Bowling Green	T-4th	5th
3	Miami (OH)	T-4th	1st
4	Kent State	3rd	4th
5	Buffalo	6th	6th
6	Akron	7th	7th
7	Massachusetts	N/A	N/A
West
1	Toledo	T-1st	1st
2	Northern Illinois	T-1st	2nd
3	Western Michigan	3rd	3rd
4	Ball State	T-4th	5th
5	Eastern Michigan	T-4th	6th
6	Central Michigan	6th	4th

 

2012 Mountain West Media Poll

		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Boise State	2nd	1st
2	Nevada	N/A	N/A
3	Fresno State	N/A	N/A
4	Wyoming	3rd	6th
5	San Diego State	4th	4th
6	Air Force	5th	3rd
7	Hawaii	N/A	N/A
8	Colorado State	T-6th	5th
9	UNLV	T-6th	7th
10	New Mexico	T-6th	8th

 

2012 PAC-12 Media Poll

North		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Oregon	T-1st	1st
2	Stanford	T-1st	2nd
3	Washington	3rd	3rd
4	California	4th	5th
5	Washington State	6th	6th
6	Oregon State	5th	4th
South
1	USC	1st	1st
2	Utah	T-3rd	3rd
3	UCLA	2nd	5th
4	Arizona	T-5th	4th
5	Arizona State	T-3rd	2nd
6	Colorado	T-5th	6th

 

2012 SEC Media Poll

East		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Georgia	1st	3rd
2	South Carolina	2nd	1st
3	Florida	3rd	2nd
4	Missouri	N/A	N/A
5	Tennessee	6th	5th
6	Vanderbilt	T-4th	6th
7	Kentucky	T-4th	4th
West
1	LSU	1st	2nd
2	Alabama	2nd	1st
3	Arkansas	3rd	3rd
4	Auburn	4th	5th
5	Texas A&M	N/A	N/A
6	Mississippi State	5th	4th
7	Ole Miss	6th	6th

 

2012 Sun Belt Media Poll

		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	FIU	4th	1st
2	Arkansas State	1st	5th
3	Louisiana-Lafayette	3rd	8th
4	Western Kentucky	2nd	7th
5	Troy	7th	2nd
6	Louisiana-Monroe	6th	4th
7	Middle Tennessee	8th	3rd
8	North Texas	5th	6th
9	Florida Atlantic	9th	9th
10	South Alabama	N/A	N/A

 

2012 WAC Media Poll

		2011 Finish	2011 Media
1	Louisiana Tech	1st	4th
2	Utah State	T-2nd	5th
3	San Jose State	T-4th	7th
4	New Mexico State	7th	8th
5	Idaho	8th	6th
6	Texas State	N/A	N/A
7	UTSA	N/A	N/A

 

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