College Football Rankings: B/R's Preseason Top 25

After a long offseason overflowing with realignment chaos, actual college football is finally at our doorstep.

It's only a few more days until Nebraska and Northwestern square off in Ireland to get the season underway.

And with the exception of the Sun Belt adding James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss, nothing has changed yet.

You still have at least another 12 months to prepare for seeing Cincinnati, Houston,

UCF and BYU in the Big 12; Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC; and UCLA and USC in the Big Ten.

To celebrate the return of pigskin on Saturdays, B/R college football experts David Kenyon, Adam Kramer, Kerry Miller, Morgan Moriarty,

and Brad Shepard each submitted a ballot of their Top 25 teams, resulting in this consensus poll:

1. Alabama Crimson Tide 2. Ohio State Buckeyes 3. Georgia Bulldogs

4. Clemson Tigers 5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish 6. Utah Utes

7. Texas A&M Aggies 8. Michigan Wolverines 9. Oklahoma State Cowboys

10. North Carolina State Wolfpack 11. USC Trojans 12. Michigan State Spartans

13. Oregon Ducks 14. Baylor Bears 15. Oklahoma Sooners

16. Arkansas Razorbacks 17. Miami (FL) Hurricanes 18. Wisconsin Badgers

19 (tie). Houston Cougars 19 (tie). Penn State Nittany Lions 21. Ole Miss Rebels

22. Texas Longhorns 23. BYU Cougars 24. Kentucky Wildcats 25. Pitt Panthers

We'll discuss which teams have moved the most since our Top 25 that ran while confetti was still raining down on Georgia,

explore what the preseason ranking of that reigning national champion could mean and then finish up with highlighting some of the can't-miss games coming up in the first month of the regular season.

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