No reason to criticize his preseason rankings. At this point computer rankings are meaningless because no games have been played. Last year Sagarin had Stanford ranked higher than all other BCS Computer formulas, which I expect will continue since Sagarin’s formula gives a lot of credit to pac10 teams for playing 9 conference games.

A few weeks ago, I happened to turn on an football preview on ESPNU and almost threw my remote at the TV after the announcers gave Stanford no respect and even had the audacity to say that Andrew Luck wouldn’t be a Heisman finalist because he won’t have enough of a supporting cast to get him there. I only hope that the team has seen all of these rankings and predictions…they will certainly fuel the team’s fire for the season.