Football is unpredictable.
One can try to throw statistics at it to make it make sense, but ultimately, it’s just a guessing game. The over/under is as difficult to predict as a prospect’s success at the next level, be that at an SEC program or in the NFL, but that doesn’t mean that sportswriters and pundits won’t try their best to throw a saddle on the beast and give it a shot.
The preseason polls had the usual suspects ranked as contenders.
Alabama atop the coaches poll, followed by Ohio State, Georgia and then Clemson.
The same four that have held on as the teams to beat in the sport for the last half decade, and the same four everyone assumed would end up in the playoffs, with Clemson as the most unpopular pick of those four.