In advance of today’s games, I thought I would share my own FBS poll. Feel free to chime in with your own rankings in this thread! If there’s enough interest, maybe we can eventually create our own poll system for this community.

First, I should state this is purely a computer poll. (I’m not intentionally disrespecting any teams!) Think of it more like a power rating. Secondly, it is the pre-season so it’s kind of a shot in the dark. I definitely could adjust things (e.g. Alabama & Oregon State are too low; Louisville & Maryland seem strangely high) but then bias can creep in. I’ve been doing my own rankings for 5 years, making slight tweaks to the algorithm along the way, but had to overhaul it recently in the transfer portal era so there may still be kinks to be ironed out.

Without further ado:

And may I reiterate: this is the pre-season! Things will shake out by the end of the season (for example, it probably won’t keep 3 PAC schools in the top 5 once that conference cannibalizes itself). Here’s how last season ended in my poll: