Coach Zach Smith & Kris Drew Discuss Post Spring Top-25 in College Football
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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🚨 Post-Spring Top 25 REVEALED 🔥 | Zach Smith & Kris Drew Break Down College Football Rankings
Spring football is OVER — and now it's time to rank the nation.
Coach Zach Smith and Kris Drew break down their Post-Spring Top 25 in College Football, analyzing which teams are rising, falling, and overrated heading into the 2026 season.
👉 Who deserves the #1 spot?
👉 Which teams are being overhyped?
👉 Where do Ohio State, Michigan, and SEC powers stack up?
This is your early look at the REAL college football hierarchy.
🔥 In This Episode
• Full Post-Spring Top 25 rankings revealed
• Biggest risers and fallers after spring practice
• Ohio State's position and outlook
• Big Ten vs SEC power debate
• Teams that are OVERHYPED heading into 2026
• Dark horse playoff contenders
• Impact of transfers, NIL, and recruiting
• Early College Football Playoff predictions
📊 Rankings Breakdown
Roster strength • returning production • QB play • recruiting classes • coaching impact • conference strength
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Which team is the most overrated?
Drop your Top 5 in the comments — we'll react to the best lists next episode.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Wednesday, hump day. |
| 0:05.5 | Happy hump day. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to talk college football today. |
| 0:09.6 | I was thinking about it, Chris, and I'm watching everyone. |
| 0:12.6 | And we're going to do it. |
| 0:13.1 | We're going to do it on the show today. |
| 0:14.0 | We're going to talk about a post spring top 25, not give you ours because I fucking hate that. |
| 0:18.6 | But it's interesting conversation because I saw Josh Payton did a commissioners poll, |
| 0:23.8 | which is what he would do if he was an AP voter. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm figuring out his shit now. |
| 0:28.3 | He has the JP poll, which is a power rating, not a ranking. |
| 0:33.0 | But the commissioner's poll is if it was an AP voter, how would he rank them? |
| 0:37.5 | So it's a true ranking, not a rating, right? Mm-hmm. Is that, do I understand that correctly? Yes, you're correct. Smart dude. He's a smart dude. I'm not that smart. So it takes me a while to figure it out. But I think it's good conversation just to have kind of as it stands today. If the season kicked off, who do we think would be the top 25 |
| 0:55.7 | teams entering college football with a full caveat that teams are built in the summer. |
| 1:02.2 | Not that winter doesn't matter, not that spring's not important, but teams are built, |
| 1:06.9 | the chemistry, right, the, you know, a ton of summer training, right? |
| 1:12.4 | Getting in football shape. |
| 1:13.3 | And then training camp is really where champions are made. |
| 1:16.2 | I mean, we've talked about it before. |
| 1:18.5 | Half of your practices of the season are done before you kick off the first game. |
| 1:22.8 | So there's a lot of work to be done. |
| 1:24.9 | A lot can change. |
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