EA Sports NCAA Football 09 - Top 25 & Tennessee Player Ratings

The good news just keeps coming today...EA Sports has released their Top 25 and the player ratings for those 25 teams at ncaafootball09.com. You can download the entire spreadsheet at their website. Below are the Top 25 teams and the player ratings for Tennessee:

NCAA Football 09 Top 25
1. Georgia
2. Oklahoma
3. Ohio State
4. USC
5. Florida
6. LSU
7. Missouri
8. West Virginia
9. Wisconsin
10. Texas
11. Clemson
12. Texas Tech
13. Penn State
14. Arizona State
15. Kansas
16. Auburn
17. Virginia Tech
18. Illinois
19. Tennessee
20. BYU
21. South Carolina
22. Alabama
23. Oregon
24. Cincinnati
25. Wake Forest

Tennessee Player Ratings
QB Jonathan Crompton - 86
RB Arian Foster - 89
RB Montario Hardesty - 85
RB Lenon Creer - 82

WR Lucas Taylor - 91
WR Austin Rogers - 85
WR Josh Briscoe - 85
WR Denarius Moore - 83
WR Gerald Jones - 83
WR Quentin Hancock - 83
TE Jeff Cottam - 79
TE Luke Stocker - 79

LT Chris Scott - 84
LG Anthony Parker - 81 (???)
C Josh McNeil - 89
RG Jacques McClendon - 84
RT Ramon Foster - 83

DE Robert Ayers - 94 (???)
DE Wes Brown - 87
DE Andre Mathis - 86
DE Ben Martin - 85
DE Chris Walker - 85
DT Demonte Bolden - 94 (again, ???)
DT Dan Williams - 85
DT Walter Fisher - 85

OLB Rico McCoy - 91
OLB Nevin McKenzie - 87
OLB Adam Myers-White - 85
MLB Ellix Wilson - 84
MLB Nick Reveiz - 80

CB Antonio Gaines - 85
CB Brent Vinson - 84
CB DeAngelo Willingham - 82
CB Marsalous Johnson - 81
FS Dennis Rogan - 83
FS Demetrice Morley - 80 (haters!)
SS Eric Berry - 94

K Daniel Lincoln - 83
P Britton Colquitt - 94 (no Chad Cunningham, sorry)

So...it's obviously a little out of whack in some spots, as usual. The fact that Bolden and Ayers are tied with Eric Berry as the highest rated players on this team raises more than an eyebrow. But hey, that's a good kind of out of whack. My only real complaint is on the offensive line, especially with Anthony Parker, which is just a joke. But this team and especially this defense will let me and you and whomever take the Vols and go against Georgia, USC or anyone else online. And I like that - as previously posted in the team ratings, a better measure of Tennesse's strength on this game isn't the #19 in the Top 25, but the 89 overall rating, which puts them among the upper tier of teams in the game. I'll take it.