So we've entered that dark time. There's not much football news to talk about. We have baseball to distract us for awhile: and the longer the better. But now we walk towards Memorial Day and vacation time. Folks start heading to the beaches in June. The first preseason mags will start hitting the shelves then. July 4th will all give us time to relax. Then the coaches' media golf outing and conference media days will signal, football is here.
In the meantime, writers, podcasters, and radio hosts all around the country will be scrambling for content. They will look behind every nook and cranny to create a piece of interest. When they exhaust all possibilities, they will result to the dreaded "Top 25" article. You know what I mean. The article that is full one guy's opinion that some fans will link to a board and say, "Look how high we are ranked!" Others will post the same link and say, "This guy is a friggin' idiot. Look who he ranked above us." In an effort to play "List bingo" during the summer, I predict we will see the following lists. All this is little more than click bait but I don't think many folks care. To paraphrase Mr. Eddie Murphy, a starving man will think a ritz cracker is a 18oz, thick cut ribeye.
For entertainment purposes only, I give you the Top 25 of the Upcoming Top 25
In the meantime, writers, podcasters, and radio hosts all around the country will be scrambling for content. They will look behind every nook and cranny to create a piece of interest. When they exhaust all possibilities, they will result to the dreaded "Top 25" article. You know what I mean. The article that is full one guy's opinion that some fans will link to a board and say, "Look how high we are ranked!" Others will post the same link and say, "This guy is a friggin' idiot. Look who he ranked above us." In an effort to play "List bingo" during the summer, I predict we will see the following lists. All this is little more than click bait but I don't think many folks care. To paraphrase Mr. Eddie Murphy, a starving man will think a ritz cracker is a 18oz, thick cut ribeye.
For entertainment purposes only, I give you the Top 25 of the Upcoming Top 25
| Top 25........... | Comment |
| 1. Head Coaches | Is there any doubt who will be #1? Some knucklehead will push Dabo out of the top 10 and try to justify it. It'll also be interested to see Kirby ranked about Dabo |
| 2. Offensive Coordinators | How high will Riley be? |
| 3. Defensive Coordinators | Where's Les's name? |
| 4. Recruiters | TI will be all ablaze when Grisham is ranked higher than Eason on the list....and yes, I saw a list yesterday about recruiters and it had Grisham ranked around #35 and Eason was about 20 spots lower. |
| 5. Running Backs | How close to the top will be Shipley? Is PM on the list too? |
| 6. Wide Receivers | Nothing to see here. |
| 7. Offenses | Pre season hype for Clemson based on a vanilla spring game and potential? |
| 8. Defenses | Got to expect some love here. |
| 9. Entrances | Ahhh the one that will fire Clemson fans up the most when 2001 and Enter Sandman are ranked above Running down the Hill. |
| 10. Impact Transfers | College football free agency has to have a list. |
| 11. Toughest schedules | One list UGA won't be on. |
| 12. Traditions | Anything above Rubbing the Rock is nonsense to us. |
| 13. Stadiums | DV will get top 10 respect. |
| 14. Helmets | Hard hitting analysis goes into an article like this. Clemson's helmet will be ranked too low and some here will say we need to go chrome. |
| 15. Mascots | Maybe the only think Colorado will be ranked #1 at. Do you think Deion rides Ralphy out game one? |
| 16. Tailgating Campuses | Gee...tell me how special The Grove is again. |
| 17. Quarterbacks | Drake Maye lovefest. Cade should get some respect. |
| 18. Games | When Clemson v FSU isn't on the list, folks will be pissed |
| 19. College Football Analysts | Yawn......Now, we had a thread on TI a year or so ago with top sideline reporters. Now that was a good story. |
| 20. Impact Freshmen | Yawn.....haven't played a down yet. |
| 21. Way too early bowl projections | Not a top 25 list, but you know we'll see bunches of these. Chickens to the Mayo Bowl again. |
| 22. Programs over the last decade | We'll be scratching our heads when they have UGA over Clemson |
| 23. Team logos | Absolutely no personal biases in a article like this. |
| 24. Uniforms | See above. tell me how Oregon's uniforms are special again? |
| 25. The best program in every state | Some SEC homer will try to make the argument that USuCk owns SC. If that's true then GT must own the state of Georgia too. |
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