2019 NCAA Men’s Formchart #2 — LSU Passes Florida

IN OUR FIRST chart of the year, Florida was an 8-point favorite over SEC rival LSU for the team title. Just 2 weeks later, Dennis Shaver’s Bayou Bengals project as 2-point favorites. The Gators dropped only a single point in our crystal ball, but LSU gained 7.

The two schools will have plenty of chances to control their own destiny, as they’re currently scheduled to go head-to-head in 7 events: both relays, plus the 200, 110H, HJ, LJ & HT.

In chart #1, it was a very close call for the No. 3 position, with only 3 points separating Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Houston & defending champ Georgia, but the Red Raiders added 10 in the interim while the others dropped, leaving the Lubbock crew all alone, closer now to No. 1 than to No. 4.

Florida’s big gun, of course, remains Grant Holloway, the 110H favorite who is also tabbed for 2nd in the long jump and will be a big factor in the placings of the favored 4×1 and second-rated 4×4. Wild and crazy thinking might have him jump into the 200 as well, but Florida sources say that would compromise his chances at the long jump title he seriously wants.

There are no changes in predicted winners from chart #1.

The 10-deep predictions for each event (’ = athlete not eligible for U.S. international teams):

TOP 10 TEAMS
Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. LSU	61	2
2. Florida	59	1
3. Texas Tech	51	3
4. Georgia	35	6
5. Stanford	33	8
6. Texas A&M	31	4
7. Houston	30	5
8. Florida State	28	7
9. Mississippi State	27	9
=10. Alabama	22	10
=10. USC	22	=37
(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Sr
2. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	Jr
3. Mario Burke’	Houston	Sr
4. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Sr
5. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	So
6. Demek Kemp	South Carolina State	Sr
7. Micah Larkins	Northwestern Louisiana	Sr
8. Raheem Chambers’	Miami	Jr
9. McKinely West	Sn Mississippi	Sr
10. Rodney Rowe	North Carolina A&T	Sr

200 METERS
1. Divine Oduduru’	Texas Tech	Jr
2. Jaron Flournoy	LSU	Sr
3. Andre Ewers	Florida State	Sr
4. Hakim Sani Brown’	Florida	So
5. Nick Gray	Ohio State	Sr
6. Rodney Rowe	North Carolina A&T	Sr
7. Andrew Hudson	Texas Tech	Sr
8. Kasaun James	Florida State	Jr
9. Mustaqeem Williams	Tennessee	Sr
10. Cravon Gillespie	Oregon	Sr

400 METERS
1. Tyrell Richard	South Carolina State	Sr
2. Kahmari Montgomery	Houston	Sr
3. Trevor Stewart	North Carolina A&T	So
4. Wil London	Baylor	Sr
5. Dwight St. Hillaire’	Kentucky	So
6. Derrick Mokaleng’	TCU	Jr
7. Mar’yea Harris	Iowa	Sr
8. Obi Igbokwe	Houston	Sr
9. Jacory Patterson	Virginia Tech	Fr
10. Tyler Terry	LSU	Jr

800 METERS
1. Marco Arop’	Mississippi State	So
2. Bryce Hoppel	Kansas	Jr
3. Devin Dixon	Texas A&M	Jr
4. Isaiah Jewett	USC	Jr
5. Joseph White	Georgetown	Sr
6. Robert Heppenstall’	Wake Forest	Sr
7. Matt Matternach	Iowa	Jr
8. Cooper Williams	Indiana	Jr
9. Carlton Orange	Texas A&M	Jr
10. Daniel Nixon	Mississippi State	Jr

1500 METERS
1. Oliver Hoare’	Wisconsin	Jr
2. Carlos Villareal	Arizona	Jr
3. Yared Nuguse	Notre Dame	So
4. Sam Worley	Texas	So
5. William Paulson	Arizona State	Sr
6. Justine Kiprotich’	Michigan State	Sr
7. Geordie Beamish’	Northern Arizona	Jr
8. Cameron Griffith’	Arkansas	Sr
9. Waleed Suliman	Mississippi	So
10. George Kusche’	Nebraska	Fr

STEEPLE
1. Obsa Ali	Minnesota	Sr
2. Aidan Tooker	Syracuse	Jr
3. Steven Fahy	Stanford	Sr
4. Daniel Michalski	Indiana	Sr
5. Matt Owens	BYU	So
6. Clayson Shumway	BYU	Jr
7. Noah Affolder	Syracuse	So
8. Nathan Mylenek	Iowa	Jr
9. Riley Osen	Portland	So
10. Johannes Motschman’	Iona	Sr

5000 METERS
1. Grant Fisher	Stanford	Sr
2. Morgan McDonald’	Wisconsin	Sr
3. Amon Kemboi’	Campbell	Jr
4. Joe Klecker	Colorado	Jr
5. Cooper Teare	Oregon	So
6. Thomas Ratcliffe	Stanford	So
7. Edwin Kurgat’	Iowa State	Jr
8. Luis Grijalva’	Northern Arizona	So
9. Theo Quax’	Northern Arizona	Fr
10. Kyle Mau	Indiana	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Tyler Day	Northern Arizona	Jr
2. Conner Mantz	BYU	So
3. Gilbert Kigen’	Alabama	Sr
4. Clayton Young	BYU	Sr
5. Gilbert Boit’	Arkansas	Jr
6. Vincent Kiprop’	Alabama	Sr
7. Aaron Templeton	Furman	Sr
8. Blaise Ferro	Northern Arizona	Jr
9. Iliass Aouani’	Syracuse	Jr
10. Connor McMillan	BYU	Sr

110 HURDLES
1. Grant Holloway	Florida	Jr
2. Daniel Roberts	Kentucky	Jr
3. Damion Thomas’	LSU	So
4. Trey Cunningham	Florida State	So
5. Isaiah Moore	South Carolina	Sr
6. Eric Edwards	Oregon	Fr
7. Amere Lattin	Houston	Sr
8. Cory Poole	Florida	So
9. John Burt	Texas	Sr
10. LaFranz Campbell’	Clemson	So

400 HURDLES
1. Quincy Hall	South Carolina	Jr
2. Taylor McLaughlin	Michigan	Sr
3. Norman Grimes	Texas Tech	So
4. Amere Lattin	Houston	Sr
5. Infinite Tucker	Texas A&M	Jr
6. Cameron Samuel	USC	So
7. Cory Poole	Florida	So
8. Ilolo Izu	Texas A&M	Sr
9. Robert Grant	Texas A&M	Sr
10. James Smith	Arizona	Fr

4 x 100
1. Florida	Florida
2. LSU	LSU
3. Houston	Houston
4. Texas Tech	Texas Tech
5. North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
6. Florida State	Florida State
7. Ohio State	Ohio State
8. Sam Houston State	Sam Houston St
9. Oregon	Oregon
10. Arkansas	Arkansas

4 x 400
1. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
2. Florida	Florida
3. LSU	LSU
4. Baylor	Baylor
5. Iowa	Iowa
6. USC	USC
7. Houston	Houston
8. South Carolina	South Carolina
9. Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
10. North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

HIGH JUMP
1. Shelby McEwen	Alabama	Sr
2. Tejaswin Shankar’	Kansas State	So
3. Keenon Laine	Georgia	Sr
4. JuVaughn Harrison	LSU	So
5. Roberto Vilches’	Missouri	Fr
6. Earnie Sears	USC	So
7. Clayton Brown’	Florida	Jr
8. Darryl Sullivan	Tennessee	Jr
9. Darius Carbin	Georgia	Jr
10. Jhonny Victor	Florida	Sr

POLE VAULT
1. Mondo Duplantis’	LSU	Fr
2. Chris Nilsen	South Dakota	Jr
3. Matt Ludwig	Akron	Sr
4. Jacob Wooten	Texas A&M	Sr
5. KC Lightfoot	Baylor	Fr
6. Zach Bradford	Kansas	Fr
7. Sondre Guttormsen’	UCLA	Fr
8. Clayton Fritsch	Sam Houston St	So
9. Adam Coulon	Indiana	Jr
10. Deakin Volz	Virginia Tech	Sr

LONG JUMP
1. Rayvon Grey	LSU	Jr
2. Grant Holloway	Florida	Jr
3. JuVaughn Harrison	LSU	So
4. Jordan Latimer	Akron	Sr
5. Charles Brown	Texas Tech	Sr
6. Fabian Edoki’	Middle Tennessee	Jr
7. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Sr
8. Yann Randrianasolo’	South Carolina	Sr
9. Jacob Fincham-Dukes’	Oklahoma State	Sr
10. Steffin McCarter	Texas	Sr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Jordan Scott’	Virginia	Jr
2. Odaine Lewis’	Texas Tech	Sr
3. Chengetayi Mapaya’	TCU	So
4. Tuomas Kaukolahti’	Cal	Jr
5. John Warren	Sn Mississippi	Sr
6. Armani Wallace	Florida State	Sr
7. Clayton Brown’	Florida	Jr
8. O’Brien Wasome’	Texas	Jr
9. Papay Glaywulu’	Oklahoma	So
10. Ade Mason	Oklahoma	Jr

SHOT
1. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Sr
2. Tripp Piperi	Texas	So
3. Jordan Geist	Arizona	So
4. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Sr
5. Dotun Ogundeji	UCLA	Sr
6. Oghenakpobo Efekoro’	Virginia	Sr
7. Andrew Liskowitz	Michigan	Jr
8. Brett Neelly	Kansas State	Sr
9. Jonah Wilson	Washington	So
10. Matt Katnik	USC	Jr

DISCUS
1. Payton Otterdahl	North Dakota State	Sr
2. Greg Thompson’	Maryland	Sr
3. Eric Kicinski	Texas Tech	Sr
4. Roje Stona’	Clemson	Fr
5. Reno Tuufuli	Iowa	Sr
6. Kord Ferguson	Alabama	Sr
7. Dotun Ogundeji	UCLA	Sr
8. Elijah Mason	Washington	Fr
9. Kai Schmidt	Abilene Christian	Sr
10. George Evans’	Kansas	So

HAMMER
1. Denzel Comenentia’	Georgia	Sr
2. Daniel Haugh	Kennesaw State	Sr
3. Gleb Dudarev’	Kansas	Jr
4. Morgan Shigo	Penn State	Sr
5. Anders Eriksson’	Florida	Sr
6. Thomas Mardal’	Florida	So
7. Jake Norris’	LSU	So
8. Hilmar Jonsson’	Virginia	Sr
9. Brock Eager	Washington State	Sr
10. A.J. McFarland	Florida	Sr

JAVELIN
1. Anderson Peters’	Mississippi State	So
2. Ahmed Magour’	Georgia	Jr
3. Curtis Thompson	Mississippi State	Sr
4. Sindri Gudmundsson’	Utah State	Jr
5. Liam Christensen	Stanford	Fr
6. Chris Mirabelli	Rutgers	Sr
7. Aaron True	Wichita State	Sr
8. Sam Hardin	Texas A&M	Sr
9. Trevor Danielson	Texas	Sr
10. Werner Bouwer’	Texas Tech	Jr

DECATHLON
1. Harrison Williams	Stanford	Sr
2. Ayden Owens’	USC	Fr
3. Johannes Erm’	Georgia	So
4. TJ Lawson	Kent State	Jr
5. Nathan Hite	Texas A&M	Sr
6. Max Vollmer’	Oregon	Fr
7. Gabe Moore	Arkansas	Sr
8. Nick Guerrant	Mississippi State	Jr
9. Trent Nytes	Wisconsin	Sr
10. Jack Lint	Michigan	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. LSU	61
2. Florida	59
3. Texas Tech	51
4. Georgia	35
5. Stanford	33
6. Texas A&M	31
7. Houston	30
8. Florida State	28
9. Mississippi State	27
=10. Alabama	22
=10. USC	22
=12. BYU	20
=12. North Dakota State	20
14. Wisconsin	18
15. Kansas	17
16. South Carolina	16
17. Oregon	15
=18. Arizona	14
=18. Baylor	14
=18. Northern Arizona	14
=18. Texas	14
=18. Virginia	14
=23. Iowa	13
=23. North Carolina A&T	13
=23. South Carolina State	13
26. Kentucky	12
27. Akron	11
=28. Michigan	10
=28. Minnesota	10
=28. Syracuse	10
=31. Kansas State	9
=31. TCU	9
=33. Kennesaw State	8
=33. Maryland	8
=33. South Dakota	8
=33. UCLA	8
37. Arkansas	7
=38. Campbell	6
=38. Indiana	6
=38. Notre Dame	6
=38. Ohio State	6
=42. Cal	5
=42. Clemson	5
=42. Colorado	5
=42. Kent State	5
=42. Penn State	5
=42. Utah State	5
=48. Arizona State	4
=48. Georgetown	4
=48. Missouri	4
=48. Sn Mississippi	4
=52. Michigan State	3
=52. Middle Tennessee	3
=52. Rutgers	3
=52. Wake Forest	3
=56. Furman	2
=56. Iowa State	2
=56. Northwestern Louisiana	2
=56. Sam Houston St	2
=56. Wichita State	2
=61. Miami	1
=61. Tennessee	1
=61. Washington	1