Miami Hurricanes coach comes out in favor of ending preseason college football polls, blasts SEC

There may not be a better season than 2026 to exemplify the problems with preseason polls in college football.

The advent of NIL and the transfer portal has already made gauging the "best" teams in early August nearly impossible, and as the jaw-dropping 2025 Indiana Hoosiers championship season demonstrated, the modern era has created more surprise teams than in the past.

Preseason polls then, despite being a part of the college football process for years, are less useful than ever before.