Phil Steele's annual preseason top 25 rankings are out, and as usual, he doesn't care about outside noise when ranking his top teams.

If Phil Steele predicts it, you can book it, as the veteran magazine publisher has correctly picked the AP preseason college football rankings 95 percent of the time.

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Are bye weeks bad? They've existed in professional sports for decades, as well as postseason college basketball tournaments, and the results there give a pretty definitive answer: Nope! However, in ...