3 takeaways from 2022 college football Coaches preseason poll

The college football Coaches Poll came out on Monday for the 2022 season and here are some of our instant reactions on who is too high or too low. 

You know the college football season is getting closer as the USA Today Coaches Poll was released on Monday (here’s our own preseason top 25).

As we have seen over the years, preseason polls don’t matter a whole lot in college football, especially the Coaches Poll. The AP Poll doesn’t really matter either. Both technically give out national championships still but the College Football Playoff and its rankings are all that really matters.

But, since college football fans are hungry for topics, it’s always interesting, plus it’s interesting to see what college football coaches (or whoever fills out their poll) think of the rest of the country.

Here are some quick takeaways from the first edition of the Coaches Poll for the 2022 college football season.

Top 10 was mostly spot on

It’s the Coaches Poll, so who really cares? But if we are going to nitpick, it seems to me that Michigan football should be ranked higher than Clemson or Notre Dame.

The Irish have a new starting quarterback, and also have to replace their star running back from last season. They also have a first-time head coach. Clemson should be stout on defense, but they were last season too (see Georgia game). The issue is at quarterback and we have no evidence now to suggest those issues will be fixed, although having a five-star QB waiting in the wings just in case isn’t a bad plan.

Michigan is facing questions too. Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo are both gone and the Wolverines have two new coordinators. But they return their top two quarterbacks, a potential Heisman contender at running back, and a really good offensive line.

Overall though, I buy every team ranked in the top 10.

Now, we’ll look at three teams ranked too high, followed by three teams ranked too low.