2012 College Football Rankings: USC, LSU, Bama All Claim Top Spots

2012 College Football Rankings: Alabama, LSU, USC All Claim Top 25 Throne

Hey, college football starts Thursday! Guess we better take a look at the Top 25 rankings, huh? Some combination of USC, LSU and Alabama makes for the top three in almost all of them, with Oregon and Oklahoma trading off after that. Then it all goes to crackers. Follow @SBNationCFB

2012 College Football Rankings: Alabama, LSU Rule Simulated BCS Standings

Actual BCS standings won't come out until October, but we can put together enough of its pieces to get an idea of which college football teams are already sitting pretty.

2012 BlogPoll, Week 1: USC, Alabama Rise

The first weekly BlogPoll of the 2012 season is also the first to deal with LSU dismissing Tyrann Mathieu. The Tigers fall out of the top spot as a result, and USC and Alabama jump them.

2012 College Football Rankings: Alabama, LSU Top Composite Top 25

College Football Rankings 2012: AP Top 25 Led By USC

Members of the Associated Press voted USC No. 1 in the 2012 preseason AP Top 25 poll.

College Football's Divine Comedy: The Inferno Of Expectations

There's no college football curse quite like high expectations, as history tells us one of this year's top-five teams is doomed to plunge into the abyss.

2012 College Football Rankings: LSU, Alabama Top Coaches' Top 25

The 2012 preseason Coaches' Poll is out, yielding the first Top 25 of the year that actually affects things. We're so close to football!

BlogPoll Returns! New No. 1 Team Overtakes Preseason Rankings

LSU moves past USC for the No. 1 spot in our second preseason rankings for 2012. And Arkansas takes a big ol' tumble.