College Football: The Way-Too-Early 2017 Preseason Top 25

The College Football Playoff title game may have just ended, but don’t fear, the 2017 season is just a mere 228 days away.

Okay, so maybe we are a ways off. But that won’t stop the two managing editors of this site from making some meaningless, entirely-too-early predictions for the upcoming year.

The start of our rankings shouldn’t surprise anyone as the Alabama Crimson Tide top both of our ballots. They may have fell to Clemson on Monday night, but the Crimson Tide still return nearly everyone and are still the premier program in the sport.

Kaelen and I both have the USC Trojans as the highest-ranked Pac-12 team, with Clay Helton’s team bunch coming in at No. 4 on my ballot and No. 5 on Kaelen’s. Hop on the Sam Darnold train now, folks.

While USC is a consensus top-five team, the next-highest Pac-12 program is up for debate.

Mr. Jones sides with the Stanford Cardinal - slotted at 15th - while I am sticking on the Washington Huskies hype train. I’ve got Washington ranked ninth, while Kaelen has the Huskies at No. 18.

You can check out both of our full rankings here: