Back for another swing …
The Hotline began producing the ridiculously early top-25 before many websites currently doing the same were even websites. Our first year, if memory serves, was 2007.
Alas, we have yet to get all 25 projections correct.
Note I: Teams slotted for the top third are expected to finish with zero, one or two losses; teams in the middle third are likely to lose two or three games; teams in the bottom third are headed for three or four (perhaps even five) losses. Because that’s generally how the math works, every year.