(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments College Football is here! 2022 Top 10 preview [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-08-26 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young after losing the national championship game last year against SEC rival Georgia. Tomorrow, the most wonderful time of the year begins with the start of college football season. Which means that much of my Twitter time from now until January 2023 will be devoted to CFB Twitter and, specifically, the portion of Twitter where my Michigan Wolverines fandom tees off on everything Spartan (Michigan State) and Buckeye-related. Man, y’all think comment threads at DK and Twitter political threads get vitriolic…Michigan/Ohio State Twitter gets downright nasty. And just wait until 2024. (always the disrespekt of Michigan State...so Spartan fans say). About a month ago on Twitter I received a request. x Your plate might be full but a Friday thread on CF at Kos might do our mental health some good after a week of fighting evil all the time — Been there Done that (@Beenthe67549681) July 30, 2022 Now while we all could use the mental health assistance that we need nowadays, I understand that college football is not for everyone, so I ask for your indulgence and maybe even a request for a topic that you’d like me to cover. In the meantime, after I tell you who we are and what we do here at Top Comments, I will introduce Chitown Kev’s picks for college football’s Top 10 in 2022. It’s not much different from everyone else’s, really. Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! Chitown Kev’s Pre-season Top 10 for 2022 1) Alabama- Heisman Trophy Winner Bryce Young. ✔ Another probable Heisman finalist in OLB Will Anderson. ✔ Loads of returning talent off of a team that made the college football championship game. ✔ Alabama will be difficult for anyone to beat. Schedule highlights include a non-conference tilt against Texas, a marquee SEC West matchup against Texas A&M and then probably the SEC Championship game but really...I don’t see anyone stopping the Tide from rolling all the way to the national championship year. 2) Ohio State- Heisman finalist CJ Stroud head up a loaded offense that stars RB TreVeyon Henderson and WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The receiver corps and the offensive line just reloads and reloads. Ohio State’s defense figures to improve the the addition of defensive coordinator Jim Knowles but the unit broke down at critical times last year against Oregon and Michigan and gave up 45 points to Utah in the Rose Bowl. Even an offense as explosive as Ohio State’s is prone to occasional sluggishness and with road games against Penn State and Michigan State along with home games against Notre Dame and Michigan, the Buckeye defense will have to be prepared to step it up a notch. Maybe 2. 3) Georgia- The historically great 2021 Georgia defense lost 5 defensive players to the first round of the NFL draft but they do have a proven game-manager in QB Stetson Bennett and lots of returning talent in the WR corps and on the offensive line. Plus, no team in the SEC East has anything even close to the talent level that Georgia has, given that games against arch-rival Florida and Tennessee won’t be easy. Neither will the home opener against Oregon. But Georgia has too much raw talent not to meet Alabama in the SEC Championship game for another round. 4) Notre Dame- I had no problem listing the top three teams but the #4 team also, presumably, needs to make the playoff. Most pollsters have another team in this position but, for reasons that I state further down in the rankings, I’m not so sure about them. Yes, Notre Dame is breaking in a new coach and a new QB but everything else is there. Yes, Notre Dame has a very tough schedule opening September 3rd against Ohio State in Columbus and closing against what should be a vastly improved USC in Los Angeles on November 26. And they do play a night game in South Bend against Clemson which, IMO, will go a long way to determining the 4th seed in the CFB playoff. 5) Michigan- Quiet as it’s kept, no college team had more plays of +40 yards and + 60 yards than Michigan last year and with the exception of RB Hassan Haskins, they return almost everyone on offense including WR Ronnie Bell. They return starting QB (and now team captain) Cade McNamara with 5-star JJ McCarthy waiting in the wings. IMO, this Michigan offense may be just as explosive (if not more so) than Ohio State’s if the normally conservative Harbaugh decides to turn the offense loose (and the offensive line has reloaded). The loss of Heisman Trophy finalist Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo as edge rushers means that the Michigan defense will take a step back but a really easy non-conference schedule sets Michigan up for another season of at least 10 wins. Penn State and Michigan State visit Ann Arbor. Of course, the season-ending tilt with Ohio State is in Columbus. But the game that make me pull my hair out is this one. 6) Texas A&M 7) Utah 8) Clemson- I have to add a note here on Clemson. I have Clemson ranked lower than most polls do not because of their defense, which will remain a championship-level defense in spite of the loss of defensive coordinator Brent Venables, who left to become head coach of Oklahoma. I simply don’t trust QB DJ Uiagalelei to run the offense anywhere near the level of Deshaun Watson or Trevor Lawrence. Plus, Clemson has a new offensive coordinator, as well. The Tigers don’t play Pittsburgh and do get North Carolina State and Miami (Fla.) at home in conference play but they also play a really good Notre Dame in a night game in South Bend. A win at Notre Dame will put Clemson in a prime position for a playoff berth but I’m not convinced they can pull it off. Yet. 9) Oklahoma 10) Baylor Comments below the fold. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/26/2113998/-Top-Comments-College-Football-is-here-2022-Top-10-preview Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/