Texas, Penn State, Ohio State and Clemson would be the top four seeds in the College Football Playoff based on The Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll with Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon and Alabama hosting first-round games.

The college football season is right around the corner, and this year feels like it’s going to be chaotic. There are maybe three or four teams with a legit shot at winning the title but outside of that there’s a bunch of teams with flaws,

Five years ago, Mitch Stacy, an Associated Press sports writer in Columbus, asked me to vote in the AP top-25 football poll. I knew what I was getting into when I said yes — and I’ve kept saying yes for six straight seasons — because I had seen for years how fans react to the polls and how they treat the writers who vote in the polls.