Sporting News Preseason Rankings

The Sporting News, one of America’s truly venerable sports publications, encourages readers to “See a different game.” After checking out the magazine’s Preseason Top 10 NCAA football teams, fans of some traditional powers may wonder what game TSN is watching.

No Texas? What about Michigan? What happened to Nick Saban and Alabama? Isn’t Kansas supposed to be good again?

Alas, none of the aforementioned made the cut.

Here’s who did:

1. Georgia

2. Ohio State

3. Southern California

4. Oklahoma

5. LSU

6. Missouri

7. Clemson

8. West Virginia

9. Florida

10. Illinois

To read more about these, and to see who else is ranked, visit The Sporting News