Playboy Reveals First College-Sportswriter Preseason Top 25
20 Agosto 2008 - 3:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
- Nation's Best Student Sportswriters Vote on Top 25 College
Football Teams - NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Playboy All
America team has been a fixture on the college football landscape
since 1957. Now PlayboyU.com, Playboy's free site mixing collegiate
journalism, entertainment, and cross-campus dialogue, has polled
college sportswriters and editors (playboyu.com/footballpoll) from
student newspapers at top universities nationwide to compile the
"Playboy College Sportswriter Top 25 Poll," the first-ever survey
of its kind. The feature is available for public viewing on
playboyu.com/footballpoll. "We're glad to have students from so
many great schools participate in this inaugural poll," said Gary
Cole, Playboy magazine's sports editor and the man who chooses the
prestigious Playboy All America Team. "It's great to be able to add
the opinions of these college journalists to Playboy's coverage of
college football and college sports in general ... even if their
ultimate pick of Georgia over my preseason number one, Oklahoma, is
dead wrong." Indeed, the college sportswriters picked the
University of Georgia No. 1; the Bulldogs narrowly edged out the
University of Southern California. Rounding out the top five are
Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Florida. The 31 student-pollsters include
representatives from nearly every major Division I conference, as
well as the Ivy League. Student journalists from the University of
Florida, University of Georgia, USC, UCLA, The Ohio State
University, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, and 24
other schools submitted ballots for the preseason top 25 college
football teams. The journalists will be on PlayboyU.com debating
their votes with fellow college students (see below for complete
list of participating journalists). Playboy U is the online
destination for Playboy's collegiate content, including the Playboy
All America teams, guides to student life, college bar reviews,
college mascot interviews, and more. The site also offers a glimpse
into the world of Playboy with exclusive party coverage, videos,
and contributions from Playboy personalities. Additionally, it
includes a community of college students who generate content and
dialogue on subjects like relationships, pop culture, and getting
the most out of the college experience. Playboy's College
Sportswriters Top 25 Rank Team Points 1 Georgia 729 13 Texas Tech
374 2 USC 724 14 Kansas 330 3 Ohio State 698 15 Virginia Tech 318 4
Oklahoma 680 16 BYU 295 5 Florida 675 17 Arizona State 291 6
Missouri 605 18 Tennessee 280 7 LSU 566 19 Illinois 208 8 West
Virginia 517 20 Oregon 185 9 Clemson 494 21 South Florida 168 10
Texas 486 22 Penn State 126 11 Auburn 451 23 Fresno State 87 12
Wisconsin 404 24 Wake Forest 64 25 Alabama 57 The Pollsters: Mary
Moore Albl Boise State University Sports Editor, The Arbiter Andrew
Bartholomew Yale University Sports Editor, Yale Daily News Cory
Bennett Cornell University Sports Editor, The Cornell Daily Sun Ben
Breiner University of Wisconsin Sports Editor, The Daily Cardinal
John Clayton Syracuse University Sports Editor, The Daily Orange
Corey DeMoss University of Oklahoma Sports Editor, The Oklahoma
Daily Rustin Dodd The University of Kansas Sports Editor, The
University Daily Kansan Brian Eller Penn State Football Editor, The
Daily Collegian Michael Fitzpatrick University of Georgia Sports
Editor, The Red and Black Brian Gawthrop West Virginia State
University Associate Sports Editor, The Daily Athenaeum Lenny
Goldman University of Missouri Sports Editor, The Maneater Matt
Gottfried The Ohio State University Editor in Chief, The Lantern
Andrew Joseph Greif University of Oregon Sports Editor, Oregon
Daily Emerald David Gurian-Peck University of Pennsylvania Sports
Editor, The Daily Pennsylvanian David Harding The University of
Cincinnati Sports Editor, The News Record Jennifer Hart Princeton
University Executive Editor for Sports, The Daily Princetonian
David R. Henry The University of Texas at Austin Interim Sports
Editor, The Daily Texan Adi Joseph The University of Maryland
Sports Editor, The Diamondback Gavin LaPaille University of
Louisville Sports Editor, Louisville Cardinal Eric Lindsey
University of Kentucky Sports Columnist and Managing Editor, The
Kentucky Kernel Dixon McPhillips Harvard University Associate
Sports Editor, The Harvard Crimson Brad Merritt University of
Tennessee Sports Editor, The Daily Beacon Michael
Middlehurst-Schwartz University of Southern California Sports
Editor, Daily Trojan Brian Murphy University of Central Florida
Sports Editor, Central Florida Future Dan Murphy University of
Notre Dame Sports Editor, The Observer Todd Orodenker Temple
University Sports Editor, The Temple News Tony F. Pizza The
University of Utah Sports Editor, The Daily Utah Chronicle Sarah
Salam UCLA Sports Editor, Daily Bruin Nate Sandals University of
Michigan Managing Sports Editor, The Michigan Daily Brian Steele
University of Florida Sports Editor, The Daily Alligator Bobby
Stover The University of Arizona Sports Editor, Arizona Daily
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