USA TODAY
It might still be the final days in August, but it's not too soon to look ahead to December when the college football regular season will wrap up and it'll be time to hand out awards for the best and worst performances of the year.
But making predictions is never easy in this sport.
Alabama had made seven of the previous eight playoffs entering last season before missing out. The Big Ten got two teams in for the first time. The Big 12 finally got a representative other than Oklahoma. However, it wasn't Texas.