BOZICH | Explaining my pre-season college football Top 25 ballot

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – I have studied the pre-season magazines (at least five). I have read the transcripts from the conference football media days (at least a few). I have studied the video (well, I watched a few minutes of 2014 games on ESPNU.) There’s no reason to wait for practice to begin. Here is my college football pre-season ballot. (I’m not actually voting in the Associated Press poll, but I am considering organizing my own poll.) (If you’re scoring at home, I included six teams from the Southeastern Conference, six from the Pac-12, five from the Atlantic Coast, three from the Big Ten, three from the Big 12, one from the Mountain West and one independent.)1. Ohio State Why the Buckeyes: Because everybody is picking the Buckeyes. Aren’t you? Why not? Why NOT the Buckeyes: Because doing the back-to-back thing is rarely a joy or attainable. And because Ohio State football fans are relentlessly insufferable. They email over comments like this…

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