Preseason top-25 for the 2021-22 college football season

#10: Oklahoma State Cowboys (9-3)

As lazy as it may sound to say, the Oklahoma State Cowboys are basically the Florida Gators of the Big 12 Conference. In other words, they are also a solid team with a couple of superior foes on the horizon (i.e. Iowa State and Oklahoma).

They have seemed to be a tad shaky at times, but the majority of their meetings are almost guaranteed to end with a Cowboys victory, including but not limited to Kansas, Texas Tech, Missouri State, and so on.

I have them just barely making the top-10 list, but many spectators will be questioning the concept by the time it is expected to happen (assuming that they are not doing so already).

#9: North Carolina Tar Heels (10-2)

There is only so much to go off of when discussing the Mack Brown/Sam Howell-led Tar Heels. Sure, the coach is legendary and the quarterback is a stud. However, as an entire operation, they are not a playoff team.

There truly isn’t much negativity to spew about UNC, rather there are merely eight teams that are better than them.

#8: Texas A&M Aggies (10-2)

Speaking of teams who are waiting for their moment, we have the Texas A&M Aggies. They have what it takes to win just like the Tar Heels do, yet the former plays in the toughest division in college football (SEC West).

When competing against such elite adversaries week in and week out, you are bound to suffer from a loss here and there. But if one-half of your two losses are to Alabama, surely you can be granted a mulligan, right?