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Phil Steele Drops His AP Preseason Top 10 Prediction

It may be a while until college football season begins, but we might already know which teams will make up the AP preseason top 10.

Phil Steele released his annual college football preseason AP poll top 10 prediction six months in advance. In the past four years, Steele has perfectly predicted which teams will make up AP’s preseason top 10, and he's only missed on five teams in the past 13 years.

Instead of creating his own top 10, Steele attempts to predict how AP voters will assemble the preseason poll every year.

Here is Steele’s AP preseason prediction for the 2022 season:

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