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Ohio State, TCU, Auburn lead Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25

Ranking teams in January immediately following the national championship feels a lot like giving a review to an upcoming sequel the second you walk out of the theater after you saw the first installment. You’re going to be swayed by the performances you just watched, and it’s impossible not to tie the two together.

Not to mention, you have no idea whether the entire cast will be back, which director will be linked to the project and if the script is even any good. It’s a pointless and often fruitless endeavor. But so is ranking teams in the first place.

Our insatiable need for football drives us. It is the only thing that keeps us going. It is nothing and everything.

And so, here is a much-too-early top 25 heading into the 2015 season. Don’t laugh — it’ll be fall camp before you know it.

OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
2014 RECORD: 14-1
Key Losses: DT Michael Bennett, DE Steve Miller, DERashad Frazier, LB Curtis Grant, CB Doran Grant, TEJeff Heuerman, WR Devin Smith, WR Evan Spencer
Key Returnees: QB Cardale Jones, QB J.T. Barrett, QB Braxton Miller, WR Michael Thomas, WR Jalin Marshall, RB Ezekiel Elliott, RB Dontre Wilson, LB Darron Lee, S Vonn Bell, CB Eli Apple, LB Raekwon McMillan, DE Joey Bosa
How this ranking will be right: The Buckeyes continue to crush everything in their path as Urban Meyer’s motivational slogans become posters hung all over the state of Ohio. Babies born in Columbus are wrapped in blankets that read the same sayings, and those words are instilled in the youth. Scarlet and gray are the only colors anyone is able to see.
How this ranking will be wrong: Complacency, or something.

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