No matter how we go about setting our preseason expectations for the 2025 college football season -- polls, computer projections, pure gut instincts -- we're going to end up mostly right. We're going to assume that the teams that were the best last year will be the best this year, and that's going to bear out in most instances.
In other cases, however, we're going to be hilariously incorrect. Take last season's preseason top 10: Six of those teams ended up in the yearend top six and scored College Football Playoff bids, and two others were among the top three teams to miss the CFP.