Baseball America selects pre-season and post-season All-American teams and College Player of the Year honorees.

Also named to the pre-season team were Miami's Jack McClinton, North Carolina's Ty Lawson and Gerald Henderson from Duke.

USC was the pre-season top-ranked team, and held the number one ranking until a 21-21 tie with Stanford, a game USC led at halftime 21-0.

He became an instant Heisman Trophy candidate, and Iowa was a pre-season top five team.

Instead they only announced the pre-season picks and pre-season teams.

LSU and Michigan were ranked as the pre-season No. 2 team in various polls.

Benson, Jones and Nelson were each selected to The Summit League's pre-season all-league teams with Jones being selected as the pre-season Player of the Year.

The following day the Steelers signed nine players from their pre-season team to the practice squad.

Diegol, when he played in the under 17 Vasco da Gama team, played in a pre-season with the Brazilian under 17 national team.

For these reasons, it was viewed as merely a pre-season warm up game by most Australasian teams and fans.