Sooners top Steele's preseason poll

Pat Forde of ESPN.com is one of those individuals and, in a message posted on his Twitter page, he reveals Steele's somewhat surprising Top-Ten list.
The biggest surprise of all comes at the very top of the list, where Steele has placed the Oklahoma Sooners as his preseason No. 1. The Sooners are coming off a season that featured the most losses since Stoops' first season in Norman, and found themselves outside the Top 25 in both the coaches and Associated Press polls.
Steele has shown in the past that he's willing to go against the mainstream grain, and tabbing the Sooners as No. 1 certainly continues that outside-the-box line of thinking.
Another surprise is TCU sitting at No. 4 ahead of No. 6 Boise State, the school that toppled the Horned Frogs in January's Fiesta Bowl and returns 21 of 22 starters from that unbeaten squad.
Alabama, with plenty of new faces on the defensive side of the ball, finds itself at No. 3, just behind No. 2 Ohio State.
Nebraska rounds out Steele's Top Five at No. 5, while Florida (No. 7), USC (No. 8), Miami (No. 9) and Oregon (No. 10) finishing off the Top Ten.