4 Big Ten teams ranked in the top 10 of Amway Coaches Poll, SEC 1 by Charlie Lockhart Four weeks from football, the anticipation for teams across the nation to take the field starts to mount. Fans must satisfy their football needs by clinging to anything they can get. Enter the preseason Top 25 poll. The validity of preseason polls has been debated often. Do the irrelevant rankings unfairly benefit teams who have yet to take the field by setting certain expectations? College football tried to rid some of this by delaying the start of the College Football Playoff poll until November. The hope for this was that on the field performance would trump brand name and hype. Preseason Excitement However, sporting news sources still lit up yesterday at the release of the first Amway Coaches Poll and with good reason. Fans, players, coaches, and pundits are all ready to…
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