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College football guru Phil Steele releases preseason Top 25
By SDS Staff
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Phil Steele, widely recognized as one of college football’s leading experts, has released his preseason Top 25 for 2020 via his annual season preview magazine.
Steele ranks 8 SEC teams in his preseason poll. Alabama leads the way, checking in at No. 3 behind Ohio State (No. 1) and Clemson (No. 2). Some SEC fans will likely be surprised by the two teams that follow the Crimson Tide. Texas A&M is No. 5 coming off an 8-5 season in 2019. Defending national champion LSU, which replaces 14 starters and 2 key assistant coaches, is next at No. 6 overall. The full Top 25, which also includes Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, can be viewed below:
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Texas A&M
- LSU
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Oregon
- Penn State
- USC
- Texas
- Florida
- Wisconsin
- Michigan
- North Carolina
- Miami
- Virginia Tech
- Auburn
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- UCF
- Iowa
- Oklahoma State
- Memphis
Steele’s rankings differ from some of the other major preseason polls. Both Sporting News and CBS Sports ranked Georgia ahead of LSU and Texas A&M in their polls. ESPN’s Football Power Index, a simulation-based ranking as opposed to opinion-based publication polls, ranks the top SEC teams as such: No. 3 Alabama, No. 5 Georgia, No. 6 LSU, No. 9 Auburn, No. 12 Florida and No. 15 Texas A&M.
We’ll be getting even more rankings between now and the kickoff of the 2020 season, hopefully.
[H/T 247Sports]
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