Preseason College Football Rankings 2015: Predicting Amway Poll's Top 25

One of the more entertaining tasks before the season starts is predicting which teams belong where in the preseason rankings—especially in a sport as wild, crazy and unpredictable as college football.

But let's double down on the predictions: Let's try to predict how the coaches will vote to open the season.

Rank	Team
1	Ohio State
2	TCU
3	Alabama
4	Baylor
5	Auburn
6	USC
7	Michigan State
8	Clemson
9	Georgia
10	Notre Dame
11	Oregon
12	Ole Miss
13	UCLA
14	Florida State
15	Oklahoma
16	Stanford
17	Georgia Tech
18	Arizona
19	Wisconsin
20	Boise State
21	Missouri
22	Arizona State
23	LSU
24	BYU
25	Michigan

It's hard to imagine the coaches will vote any team other than Ohio State as the No. 1 team in the country. There are too many compelling reasons to keep last year's national champions at the top spot.

The biggest one is that Ohio State comes into the season boasting three players who could all start at quarterback for most teams in the country: Cardale Jones, J.T. Barrett and Braxton Miller. But what makes the Buckeyes even more scary is that Miller has agreed to convert to wideout and H-back, as he told Pete Thamel of SI.com:

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For the most part, it’s going to be H-Back and punt return. It’s a long process to get back totally to throwing and throwing every day. This is the smarter thing for right now, God blessed me with a lot of talent and different opportunities. I’m going to have fun with that and still score a lot of touchdowns and help the team out and be dominant at that.

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This makes the Buckeyes all the more frightening on offense. Miller is one of the most explosive players in the country, and now he's free to catch passes, run the ball on option plays, potentially throw the ball on trick plays and return punts. In essence, the Buckeyes are getting their cake and eating it too with Miller on the field along with either Jones or Barrett, depending on who wins the quarterback battle.

Austin Ward of ESPN.com thinks Miller is perfectly capable of the adjustment, noting, "Miller has always been a dominant force on the football field, there are obviously plenty of touchdowns already on his resume, and doubting his ability has always been a recipe for being proved wrong."

And, amazingly, Miller might not even be the best player on the team's offense. No, that distinction belongs to running back Ezekiel Elliott, who rushed for 1,878 yards and 18 touchdowns last year and is one of the front-runners for the Heisman Trophy this year.

Of course, we can't forget about defensive end Joey Bosa, who might be the No. 1 overall pick in next year's NFL draft. Or linebacker Darron Lee. Or the fact that Ohio State returns 15 starters.

See, that's the thing about this team. This year was supposed to be the year they emerged as a power, not last year. They were supposed to be good last year, but national championship good? That seemed like it was a year away.

Which makes you think they might be downright unstoppable this year.

But teams will try, and the other team that seems to be a popular pick to be in the running is TCU. Quarterback Trevone Boykin leads an offense with 10 returning starters, and the defense always seems to be solid, even if they did lose some studs last year. Still, the Horned Frogs were oh so close to being a playoff team last year.

Expect the coaches to assume they'll reach the postseason this year.

From there, it's a bit of a crapshoot. Alabama is always good, and the SEC will be well-represented. Teams like USC and Oklahoma generally look good on paper. Auburn's Jeremy Johnson and Clemson's Deshaun Watson will elevate their teams' rankings. The Pac-12 should be well-populated.

But the rankings, like college football itself, are an unpredictable matter. And that's what makes all of this so fun, isn't it?