USA Today Top 25 Poll is out....

Agree for the most part as nothing is certain. But there is some vague relevancy....from the link below (and note this specifically pertains to the AP poll for the 10 years from 2014 to 2023, and for the 4 playoff berths instead of the 12 now available):

Through a sample size of 10 years, recent history says it's best to be ranked No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 or No. 5 in the preseason AP poll. The preseason No. 4 team made the College Football Playoff for the first time in 2019 when Oklahoma earned the fourth playoff spot. The preseason No. 4 squad made the four-team CFP field twice in 10 years, compared with seven times for No. 1, six instances for No. 2, four instances for No. 3 and five occurrences for No. 5.

Teams ranked No. 1 through No. 8 in the preseason AP poll combined for 30 of the 40 CFP appearances in the four-team era. In 2021, Michigan became the first team unranked in the preseason poll to make the College Football Playoff; the Wolverines received just 12 preseason votes, placing them 32nd to start the season. TCU then followed that up by going from unranked in the 2022 preseason to No. 3 in the last CFP poll.

The first 10 years of the playoff also tell us that, on average, one team from outside the top 10 of the preseason AP poll will make the CFP three out of four years. Texas was the most recent team to do that, coming from No. 11 to rank No. 3 in the final CFP poll (and preseason No. 10 Washington ended up No. 2). Earlier, TCU rose from unranked to the 2022 playoffs. Notre Dame was that team in the 2018 season, having been ranked No. 12 in the preseason. Clemson (No. 12 in 2015), Washington (No. 14 in 2016), Georgia (No. 15 in 2017) and Oklahoma (No. 19 in 2015) have also proven it's possible to climb into national title contention from a lower ranking in the preseason poll.

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Here's how the preseason AP poll correlates to the final College Football Playoff poll in the CFP era.

IT is BS, if you ask me, all it does is get the favorites in a poll position that is theirs to lose. And don't tell me that these "voters" don't get a little something for their efforts.