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WAY TOO EARLY TOP 25 TOP 25 POLLS

If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re early, you’re on time.

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Well we just saw a bunch of y’all making way-too-early polls so we made our own way-too-early poll where we ranked all the way-too-early polls.

2017 TOP 25 TOP 25 POLLS (EARLY EDITION)

  1. SBNation
  2. local publication that completely forgot about obvious top ten team
  3. national outlet that uses 3 year-old #meme in tweet
  4. Phil Steele who lists the entire top 25 in one sentence written in shorthand.
  5. Recruiting website that hyperlinks 30 high schooler profiles for each team.
  6. Message board poster that lists local team in top 5 but acknowledged they could do even better.
  7. some site you've never heard of that didn't put Alabama or Clemson at #1 specifically to drive traffic
  8. respected national pundit who thinks that a nudge-wink acknowledgement that Way Too Early Top 25's are stupid and unnecessary for some reason absolves him from responsibility for engaging in this self-gratifying pointlessness
  9. slideshow site and you won't believe who they picked at #4
  10. your nerdy cousin who develops his own spreadsheet algorithms that utilize a complex formula based on point output per individual uniform combination worn by team
  11. TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA'S TOP 25 ILLEGAL PICK PLAYS BY CLEMSON
  12. Top 25 for 2018 because fuck you it super doesn't matter
  13. GQ's best-dressed coaches (Gig 'Em)
  14. Blog who does early top 25 as game of thrones characters
  15. your team's preeminent pay site (pay money to read other fans' early rankings)
  16. Steve at the office who won't shut the fuck up about Tom Herman
  17. Slate's top 25 ways polls are polling wrong.
  18. TomoNews
  19. Danny Kanell’s Top 25 Myths About Concussions
  20. bunch of pictures of food with emoji
  21. OKC’s 25 Signs you Might be an SEC Cuck
  22. Vox: why the number 25 is sexist, but not in the way you think, explained
  23. Barstool Sports top 25 teams and photos of random boobs
  24. 25 places to see before you die (only 12 are in the SEC and Middle East)
  25. the comprehensive list assembled by an eloquent Paul Finebaum caller, written in stunningly artistic calligraphy upon rich, woven stock paper and framed in gold scrollwork upon an embossed matte background, commemorating the best Paul Finebaum moments of the 2016-2017 college football season, Roll Tide