Early Rankings

Like presidential polls this time of year, college football rankings in May are pretty much meaningless. So of course we pay attention to them. Below are five quickly grabbed early early rankings. Discussion below.

Rank	SB Nation	Bleacher Report	USA Today	Rant Sports	Sporting News
1	Clemson	Alabama	Clemson	Alabama	Alabama
2	Alabama	Clemson	Alabama	Clemson	Clemson
3	Oklahoma	Florida State	Michigan	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
4	Florida State	Michigan	Baylor	Florida State	Ohio State
5	Michigan	LSU	Florida State	Ohio State	Baylor
UGA	22	15	unranked	16	20

About the only consensus in these Top Five are Bama and Clemson. The final row shows the predictions for UGA (where I teach). The Dawgs don't look so hot, especially from USA Today. The beast of the SEC East, according to prognosticators, is Tennessee. That means UF will win it.