In what’s becoming another tradition in college football, the way-too-early Top 25s for next season are already out, mere hours after the national championship game.
More than a dozen sets of rankings are out, and not many include TCU, which wound up 6-7 in 2016 following a 31-23 loss to Georgia in the Liberty Bowl.
But ESPN and the San Jose Mercury News have the Horned Frogs in their Top 25s for next season, banking on coach Gary Patterson’s track record following rare losing seasons in Fort Worth.
Mark Schlabath of ESPN writes that TCU, his No.