re: Why so much preseason love for Bama?

Half the preseason rankings are just put out to make money. They seem like the writers are brain dead most of the time. Go look at how wrong they were last year. Half the time they just throw big name teams up there just to fill spots without actually looking at who they lost.

As for Bama they are up there solely because of what they have done in the last few years and not because what they should do this year. It will take a few years of them not winning a NC for people to stop putting them up there just because.