Wednesday was national letter of intent day.  College kids all over the country faxing their letters of intent while college football goobers such as myself are excited.  I'm a Colorado fan, and I'm excited about what coach Hawk did with this class, with the big prize being Darrell Scott, one of the top running backs in the country, as well as some stud linebackers.

So, who is #1?  Various recruiting services ranked the top 25 class, and they were pretty much all over the map.  For example, Colorado was rated #16 by rivals.com and not rated in the top 25 in scout.com.    Here's what I did.  I took the top 25 classes from rivals.com, scout.com, espn.com and cstv.com and then assigned point values from 1 to 25 with the 1 team getting 25 points and the number 2 team getting 24 points and so on.  Based on this, here's a consenus top 25 (first place votes in parenthesis)

1. Alabama (3)
2. Notre Dame
3. Miami (1)
4. Georgia
5. Florida
6. Ohio State
7. USC
8. Oklahoma
9. Clemson
10. Florida State
11. LSU
12. Michigan
13. Texas
14. UCLA
15. Virginia Tech
16. Texas A&M
17. Illinois
18. Arizona State
19. Auburn
20. Minnesota
21. Washington
22. Colorado
23. Pitt
24. Arkansas
25. Nebraska & Oregon

The others receiving votes in order are NC State, Boston College, South Carolina, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss & Missouri. 

These of course will be changing once Terelle Pryor makes a decision on where to go to school.  I give him a lot of credit for not making a decision on the national signing day.  If he doesn't know, there's no reason to sign the paper right now.   It worked out fine for Noel Devine, and had a great freshman season at West Virginia.  Good luck Terelle in your decision. 

So, props to the tide led by that "no good" Nick Saban (as referred by Jim Mandich on a radio show last year).  If these hold true, the ACC & SEC will sure have some tough teams, with each conference landing 3 schools in the top 10. 

Can't wait for spring ball...now GO BUFFS!