There are under 100 days left before college football returns, and the return of summer means preseason magazines. There are a handful of “respected” magazines such as Lindy’s and Street and Smith’s, but perhaps the most respected among them, and typically the first to hit the shelves, is Athlon Sports & Life. In these magazines, virtually every nook and cranny is explored and then ranked in an effort to pit each team against the others to give readers an expectation for the upcoming season.
Of course, there’s a lot that happens in the months between May and late August/early September.