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The Southeastern 14 composite FBS 131 preseason power rankings

 Chris Lee   in Football

Here's how five media outlets and six computers size up the nation's 131 FBS teams, combined into one composite ranking. 

Bryce Young photo courtesy of Alabama athletics.

We selected five magazines/media outlets we respect (Athlon, Lindy's, CBS, The Athletic and Phil Steele) and six computers (Team Rankings, Pro Football Focus, SP+, Kenneth Massey, FEI and Jeff Sagarin) and averaged their preseason rankings to come up with a composite ranking of the nation's 131 FBS teams. Here's how that looks entering Week Zero. 

High and low rankings are listed for each team, along with the standard deviation for each team's ranking. Southeastern Conference teams are in bold. 

1. Alabama (high-1/low-2, standard deviation of 0)

2. Ohio St. (2/3, 0)

3. Georgia (1/3, 1)

4. Michigan (4/12, 2)

5. Clemson (4/22, 5)

6. Notre Dame (5/10, 1)

7. Oklahoma (4/15, 3)

8. Utah (4/16, 3)

9. Texas A&M (5/20, 4)

10. Oklahoma St. (6/22, 5)

11. Wisconsin (7/21, 4)

12. Baylor (9/30, 7)

13. Penn St. (12/31, 6)

14. Oregon (10/33, 8)

15. Ole Miss (9/28, 6)

16. North Carolina St. (11/41, 10)

17. Michigan St. (13/42, 9)

18. Kentucky (11/32, 6)

19. Texas (7/37, 9)

20. Cincinnati (9/32, 7)

21. Tennessee (10/37, 8)

22. Arkansas (13/41, 8)

23. Pitt (9/34, 9)

24. Miami (9/53, 13)

25. Iowa (17/37, 8)

26. LSU (10/36, 8)

27. Auburn (11/52, 15)

28. Mississippi St. (20/38, 7)

29. Florida (19/36, 5)

30. BYU (13/48, 11)

31. USC (9/71, 20)

32. Wake Forest (16/49, 11)

33. Kansas St. (15/53, 10)

34. Minnesota (17/58, 10)

35. Iowa St. (7/50, 15)

36. Houston (20/58, 13)

37. UCLA (30/39, 3)

38. Purdue (21/52, 8)

39. Boise St. (24/50, 8)

40. UCF (29/66, 10)

41. Florida St. (33/57, 8)

42. North Carolina (19/60, 10)

43. Nebraska (24/70, 13)

44. South Carolina (35/57, 8)

45. Louisville (24/64, 12)

46. Appalachian St. (27/72, 12)

47. TCU (36/71, 11)

48. Fresno St. (25/78, 15)

49. Oregon St. (39/68, 9)

50. West Virginia (31/66, 9)

51. Washington (21/74, 14)

52. Air Force (31/72, 14)

53. SMU (43, 65, 8)

54. Maryland (38/80, 12)

55. Arizona St. (35/80, 14)

56. Texas Tech (28/68, 11)

57. Virginia (33/73, 11)

58. Missouri (50/67, 6)

59. Boston College (39/79, 13)

60. Washington St. (41/79, 13)

61. San Diego St. (44/80, 12)

62. Virginia Tech (48/79, 9)

63. UAB (37/88, 14)

64. Louisiana (31/81, 14)

65. Coastal Carolina (31/87 18)

66. Memphis (53/79, 8)

67. Cal (49/85, 12)

68. Stanford (44/98, 13)

69. UTSA (47/89, 14)

70. Utah St. (56/88, 11)

71. Army West Point (45/87, 11)

72. Toledo (56/96, 10)

73. Marshall (58/94, 10)

74. Illinois (40/84, 12)

75. Syracuse (57/90, 13)

76. Western Kentucky (57/98, 13)

77. Indiana (47/88, 11)

78. East Carolina (61/88, 8)

79. Liberty (67/96, 9)

80. Northwestern (56/90, 11)

81. Rutgers (59/103, 12)

82. Tulsa (55/98, 12)

83. Georgia St. (72/97, 9)

84. Central Michigan (55/98, 12)

85. Miami-Ohio (70/100, 9)

86. Georgia Tech (66/100, 9)

87. Tulane (64/112, 15)

88. Northern Illinois (69/109, 14)

89. Colorado (63/99, 10)

90. Arizona (68/105, 11)

91. Western Michigan (72/108, 10)

92. Troy (78/107, 9)

93. Colorado St. (85/114, 9)

94. North Texas (81/113, 11)

95. Navy (71/115, 13)

96. South Florida (70/114, 13)

97. Florida Atlantic (83/106, 8)

98. San Jose St. (84/110, 8)

99. Wyoming (79/118, 11)

100. Nevada (62/121, 21)

101. Kansas (69/126, 15)

102. Old Dominion (86/117, 10)

103. Kent St. (83/117, 11)

104. MTSU (85/114, 8)

105. Eastern Michigan (88/108, 10)

106. Vanderbilt (83/115, 12)

107. James Madison (90/120)

108. Duke (91/122, 10)

109. UTEP (85/122, 13)

110. South Alabama (92, 116, 8)

111. Buffalo (94/121, 9)

112. Southern Miss (95/124, 9)

113. Ball St. (84/122, 11)

114. Georgia Southern (103/120, 5)

115. Louisiana Tech (90/121, 9)

116. Charlotte (97/123, 9)

117. UNLV (100/124, 7)

118. Hawai'i (89/127, 14)

119. Arkansas St. (99/123, 8)

120. Ohio (104/123, 8)

121. Bowling Green (107/127, 7)

122. Texas St. (109/130, 6)

123. Rice (115/125, 3)

124. Temple (117/126, 3)

125. ULM (109/128, 6)

126. New Mexico (119/127, 3)

127. Akron (128/130, 2)

128. Connecticut (126/130, 1)

129. Florida International (124/131, 2)

130. New Mexico St.(125/131, 2)

131. UMass (129/131, 1)