With less than a month until the official start of the college football (and Oregon State’s) season, we revamped our January edition of our “Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25” to account for all the madness of a wild off-season. To no surprise however, the Crimson Tide are still considered the “team to beat” heading into 2017.
1. Alabama Crimson Tide
The Crimson Tide came up just short of the school’s fifth National Championship last season, which leaves the ultimate prize as the only goal heading into the 2017 campaign. Alabama will get a brutal early test when they clash with our #2 ranked team, Florida State, at the Georgia Dome in Week One.