Which college football programs deserve being tagged with the most overrated label over the past 35 seasons? Thanks to recent search via recent research via Stassen, they compiled decades worth of AP Poll finishes and preseason rankings since 1989, which provide a healthy helping of intel on how programs are perceived vs. how they finish.
Preseason polls generate discussion, but by no means affect a team’s performance. We’re expecting parity this fall during the first year of the expanded playoff era, just like we saw earlier this year with Washington and Michigan duking it out in the national championship game.
Preseason rankings at 247Sports released this week with Ohio State, Georgia and Texas assuming the top-three spots in the poll. And believe it or not, one of those programs is featured in this overrated programs glance.
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Here are college football’s 10 most overrated programs over the last 35 years based on preseason projections and end-of-year poll finishes: