ESPN, for better or worse, is still the mothership. While other media outlets have begun to emerge and find a foothold among an ever-growing consumer base, the powers that be in Bristol, CT, still issue the loudest and mightiest decrees in the sports world.
So it should come to the surprise of no one that when their preseason top-25 college football poll is released, people will think thoughts. Some will think pleasant thoughts. Some will think perplexed thoughts. Some will want to grab their pitchforks and form a violent mob. Variety, amirite?
Thanks for giving us Mark May all those years, by the way.