Despite consecutive 10-plus win seasons, the Missouri Tigers found themselves outside the US LBM preseason College Football Coaches Poll released on Monday.

Ohio State’s 19-year-old Jeremiah Smith (yes, we’re going to keep mentioning his age until he turns 20 on the day the Buckeyes play Michigan) takes the top spot, unseating South Carolina’s literal track star, Nyck Harbor, who last year became the list’s first-ever repeat No. 1. I asked Bruce how close Harbor came to pulling off a three-peat:

Nine SEC teams are ranked in the preseason US LBM Coaches Poll. Think the playoff committee will care about that? They didn't last year.