College football season is nearly upon us. It seems like yesterday Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes seized the throne. Now they’re doing so again when it comes to the 2015 iteration of college football rankings, first and foremost with the Amway Coaches Poll. Call it the first of many epic releases with so many poll iterations running right on through the season and to the ever-important College Football Playoff. For now, preseason polls walk a tightrope of on-paper analysis, production from last year and simple projections. Let’s take a stab at the NCAA Top 25 below while awaiting the start of the season. NCAA Top 25 Predictions Rank Team 1 Ohio State Buckeyes 2 TCU Horned Frogs 3 Alabama Crimson Tide 4 Auburn Tigers 5 Michigan State Spartans 6 Baylor Bears 7 Oregon Ducks 8 LSU Tigers 9 Florida State Seminoles 10 USC Trojans 11 Clemson Tigers 12 Georgia Bulldogs 13 UCLA Bruins 14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 15 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 16 Mississippi Rebels 17 Wisconsin Badgers 18 Arizona State Sun Devils 19 Stanford Cardinal 20 Arizona Wildcats 21 Oklahoma Sooners 22 Arkansas Razorbacks 23 Mississippi State Bulldogs 24 Texas A&M Aggies 25 Boise State Broncos Author’s predictions. Prediction Breakdown The Obvious: Ohio State Tops All There’s no reason to knock the Buckeyes out of the top slot. After all, most figured this would be the year Meyer morphed his impressive recruiting classes into a title contender, not last year when they took home the inaugural CFP. Feel free to call it an embarrassment of riches in Columbus. Joey Bosa and Adolphus Washington lead a ridiculous defense, while Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett form perhaps the best quarterback depth chart in the country. Offensive weapons weren’t a problem either thanks to wideouts such as Michael Thomas and Corey Smith, but the spot got an added boost when former quarterback Braxton Miller decided to change positions. He explained the decision to ESPN.com’s Austin Ward: Because you know, my main focus was playing quarterback. Coming back from my injury, the thing was, my distance on the ball wasn’t all the way there yet…
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