The first PFF top 25 poll is out, and it arrives not long after the Coaches Poll and the official preseason AP Poll. It has some incredibly shocking changes, though.

Using AP Top 25 preseason polls from 2014 to 2023 and comparing them to final CFP rankings over the same period, I came up with a very unscientific “formula” for predicting a playoff bracket.

When the final AP Poll comes out at the end of the season, the Texas football team will be still be ranked No. 1 in the country. The Longhorns will lift the national championship trophy at the end of the year.

The Associated Press Top 25 poll is out. Let the sorting out process begin. Only two first-place votes and five points separate No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Penn State.

Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz had a hilarious reaction to not being ranked in the Top 25 preseason poll when asked by Paul Finebaum.

The Michigan football team is starting the season ranked No. 14 in the AP Poll, and it will make the College Football Playoff this season.

At the AP, my job was to administer the poll, so I knew that as a first-time voter I'd be undertaking a challenge with no perfect answer.

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It's been nearly seven full years since the West Virginia Mountaineers were ranked inside the AP Top 25, which gives them the second-longest drought of any Powe