The 2020 season is still nearly eight months off, but it’s never too early, it seems, to begin thinking about what might be the next time around. And several national media outlets have jump-started the process with their annual “Way too Early” forecasts of what the college football preseason Top 25 will look like come this fall.
LSU’s national championship victory over Clemson wasn’t even 24 hours old before college football prognosticators were busy predicting who the national contenders were going to be in 2020. So far, the experts who closely follow this stuff for a living have Clemson and Ohio State as the two teams in the best position to land in next year’s national championship game scheduled for the Orange Bowl in Miami.