Welcome to Andy Staples on three, and it's time to do something I swore I'd never, ever, ever do again. I'm ranking football teams. That's right. I've done everything possible to avoid ranking college football teams since the last time I did this. Well, I've done it a few times over the years. But it's been a while. It's been a while. At my last company, there were other people who were more than happy to rank teams. I was like, all right, you guys rank the teams. I don't want to get yelled at. But then I realized, wait a second, we're just talking about college football here. Y'all can yell at me if you want to. That's fine. Bring it on. Because I have thoughts.

And I've seen all these other top 25s come out.

I'm like, no, I can do a better one.

And it's not what I was doing on my old show.

This is not the Andy Staple Show computer laptop operated win Nexus.

I think that's it. You know what the letter spell i didn't do this to intentionally piss you off if it pisses you off it's because you flat out disagree with me

and we can we can hash that out or we can just wait and let people play and figure it out. But a man who has very

strong opinions about where teams should be ranked, and he's been doing his own conference power

rankings and also the various unit rankings for different position groups throughout the country.

On three's Jesse Simonson joins us now to discuss my rankings.

We'll discuss his rankings.

And I know there's some places we disagree already, Jesse.

Like I looked at your SEC, your SEC conference post-spring power rankings.

And I was like, oh boy, Jess and I are going to have a chat about the village on the planes.

Embrace debate.

Embrace debate.

Thanks for having me, Andy.

Thanks for having those positional rankings.

I will tell you, man, that it's such a good off-season study because you really deep dive.

I talk to some people.

You use the analytics, the PFF, the sports source and that kind of

stuff. And with so much movement in the transfer portal and how much these rosters have changed,

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