I'm sure that everybody out there is going to accept this with nothing but positivity and agreement across the spectrum.

If you're in the comments and you think it's wrong, guess what? You're wrong.

Even though the season has just ended and let's be honest, football season really never ends,

there were a lot of people putting out a top 25 yesterday,

so we decided to come together, the three of us,

a consolidated way too early college football top 25 for 2026.

And I'm sure that everybody out there is going to accept this

with nothing but positivity and agreement

across the spectrum, across conferences, across all of college football, trying to go the

therapeutic route, fellas, of getting over the last game, and now we have to wait all the

way until August for the next games. But this is Cranning Cone.

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Use promo code booster. Save some money, eat some delicious meats as well. David Cohn, former

Michigan quarterback, Blaine Crane, former Western State, Colorado wide receiver. And I want to start

with the criteria. Okay, we are going to get into the rankings. All right, and I'm down to pitch backwards a little bit, guys, here. I'm down to start at one. I want to get this thing start off with a bang if that's cool with everybody else here. But David, you wrote an article that's attached to this. You can see the graphic everywhere. We appreciate you being here. Make sure you get that subscribe button. Can you tell everybody, because we each

made our own top 25, then you did your mathematician, Goodwill Hunting thing, and we got to a

consolidated list where there was a little nuance, had to hop on a call late last night to get

the last four done. But kind of explain to the people loosely what we went by and then we'll get more specific

as we reveal.

Well, there was a part of me that thought, wait, we can't do a top 25 for 2026.

The championship just happened, but then again, the poker player in me enjoys making decisions

with limited information.

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