Led by Clemson and Alabama, the usual suspects occupy the top spots in the preseason AP Top 25, released Monday. But who will enter the poll this year? And which currently ranked teams are the most likely candidates to drop out? Here are some possibilities.
rates Auburn as a top-10 team. It also projects the Tigers to win just 7.6 games. So what’s the rub? For starters, Gus Malzahn’s team will face a schedule that the FPI rates as the nation’s seventh-toughest, beginning with a neutral-site opener against Oregon and also including road games against Texas A&M, Florida, and LSU. Then their final two SEC games will come at home against Georgia and Alabama.
A year before that, they went 10-3. A cause for concern is that Army returns about half of its production from last year’s stout defense, but 80% of the offense – including senior quarterback Kelvin Hopkins, a 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard passer – returns. Pair the returning production from the nation’s No. 2 rushing offense with the nation’s 123rd-toughest schedule according to the FPI, and you have a recipe for a projected 9.
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