As promised, here's a quick rundown of a few highlights from Lindy's college football preview. We've gone through several of these previews, and gotten a pretty good idea of what national forecasters think of the Scarlet Knights.

Training camp is now only two weeks away (the Knights open Aug. 3), and more and more news from campuses should start pouring in in the next couple of weeks. But since today isn't a big news day, a few highlights from Lindy's:

• The editors rank Rutgers 16th in the country. That's two spots higher than CBS Sportsline, 14 higher than Phil Steele, but six spots lower than Athlon Sports. I think 16 is right around where the Knights will fall in both the AP poll and the Coaches' poll.
• West Virginia and Louisville are ranked fourth and ninth, respectively.
• As is the case in every single publication in the country, they have USC ranked No. 1. And like many other publications, they have LSU picked second. It's interesting that the two teams many thought should have met in the 2004 Sugar Bowl, in which LSU beat Oklahoma (while USC won the Rose Bowl and the AP national title) are the popular picks to meet in the BCS title game this year.
• The SEC -- by far the best conference in the country coming into the season -- has five teams in Lindy's top 20: LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas and Georgia. When the defending national champions might be the third best team in the conference, you know it's a tough league.
• The Big East, with three, has the same amount of top 20 teams as the Big Ten and Big 12, and one more than the Pac 10.

There's plenty more to check out at Lindy's web site.

Check back tomorrow for some news and notes from around the country.

- Ben