USA Today Coaches Poll: The way it is is the way it was.

The USA Today Coaches Poll hit the streets at 5:00 a.m this morning with few surprises in store for the over-zealous fan anxious to chest-thump at the water cooler about his team.  In fact, the top-5 heading into 2010 is the same quintet that ended inthe top-5 in 2009-like post bankster-gate America, the rich get really, really, rich, and the rest just hope to meet “The Situation” in the airport one day. 

Florida, benefitting from a groundswell of respect for Urban’s seemingly endless supply of 4 and 5 star cyborgs, checks in at No. 3.  ‘Bama, like Florida last year, finds itself as the “duh” No.1, despite losing its entire starting defense.  Ohio St., the only other team to receive a first place vote, is No.2. 

It goes without saying that the only significance of the first poll of the season is its relative insignificance when compared to the last one poll of the season.  Huge non-conference tilts in September coupled with Flori-Bama’s early October showdown could markedly alter the landscape of CFB in 2010.  Might not too?

Either way, there’s football ahead.  Thank god for that.