June 8, 2026

Phil Steele predicts preseason AP college football top 25. Where is Ohio State?


Phil Steele is one of the most respected college football analysts in the world, and if you are like me, you are eagerly waiting for his preseason magazine to hit the shelves. We still have a few months before that happens, but until then Steele has at least granted us some early insight into his prediction of the preseason AP top ten in college football for 2023. And before you just sneeze at another prediction from another national writer, consider that Steele has been very good a predicting what these rankings will look like. In fact, over the last 14 years, he’s gotten the top ten teams right in eight of those years. Buy Buckeyes Tickets That’s all while projecting these six months in advance. All told, Steele has correctly predicted 134 out of 140 teams in the preseason AP Top 25 during that time, so we’d say he has…

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