Which preseason top 10 CFB teams are being disrespected the most?
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The college football Preseason AP Top 25 poll was released on Monday. Two weeks earlier, the Coaches Poll was released. The top three teams are the same in both polls with Ohio State ranked no. 1 followed by Oregon at no. 2 and Georgia at no. 3. After that? Just a bunch of disrespect.
It doesn’t matter how little these polls actually matter. College sports polls are lists and people love to argue about lists. Preseason college football polls are no different. Actual football is still more than a week away so here are three top 10 teams that are being disrespected by the voters.
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3. No. 9 Ole Miss Running Rebels
Ole Miss brings back stars Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy from a team that went 13-2 and won two games in the College Football Playoff before losing a close game to national runner-up Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. Ole Miss finished last season ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll and the school has won double-digit games in four of the previous five seasons.
The biggest reason the Rebels slipped and could very well be disrespected is because they lost coach Lane Kiffin. The good news is they have 42-year-old Pete Golding taking over. He won two CFP games in his first three games as a head coach. Golding has been at the school since 2023 and before that he was on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama.
In the coaches poll they’re ranked even lower at No. 10. ESPN’s Paul Finebaum expects some missteps in Golding’s first season.
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2. No. 7 Miami Hurricanes
“There’s a lot of shade being thrown towards The U,” said ESPN’s Chris Canty on Tuesday’s “Get Up.” “The Maimi Hurricanes were just in the National Championship Game, and they got Darian Mensah in the transfer portal. And as a Virginia alum, I can tell you with the firsthand experience with the Darian Mensah experience, that this guy is a baller.”
Miami lost some key defensive players to the NFL draft but return some very good players that got them close to the title last season when they went 13-3. And now they’re seventh and only got one first place vote? Outrageous.
1. No. 6 Indiana Hoosiers
On the same episode of “Get Up” ESPN’s Evan Cohen seemed to use the rhetorical device from Matthew McConaughey’s closing argument in “A Time to Kill” to get the studio to understand how ridiculous it is for the defending national champions to be ranked No. 6 in the preseason.
The Hoosiers actually had the third-most first place votes, but still found themselves ranked behind Georgia, Notre Dame and Texas in both polls.
Alabama was ranked in the top five in each of Nick Saban’s last 11 seasons in Tuscaloosa. Clearly, the other coaches are not ready to give Curt Cignetti the same type of respect after one measly little historical season.
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