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We (humanity) are the comments section.  We're scary.  

My take on this is that the comments section is a reflection of folks who are incensed about whatever, usually for no good reason.  They are not a reflection of the vast majority of folks out there who DGAS about it.  You get the most extreme of the extreme, often as not.  

To get back to the initial point, we have to be getting close to Athlon coming out.

I always try to get the regional cover so I'll probably pick up the national and Big Ten versions when I'm in Michigan in a couple weeks for a wedding.  I could order it, but there's something nostalgic about picking it up from the rack.  I figure as long as I'm buying an outdated item, I might as well go all in and buy it an outdated way.  I used to go to a book store to buy it.  That's not a thing, so usually Target is the best bet.

They used to do a joint UM/MSU regional cover, which, depending on how good MSU was at the time, varied from a 50/50 split to being about 75/25 in favor of UM.  I believe they just started splitting it and doing a UM cover and an MSU cover.  I remember last year, due to error, Ann Arbor got the MSU covers.  I was delighted when I went to buy it, but found it funny.  Thanks to Twitter, I subsequently became aware of the Ann Arbor wide outrage.  I did find it funny, people using social media, to complain that they couldn't get the specific outdated item they wanted via their outdated method of purchasing it.

It lacks the anticipation I was had at this time of year.  Partially due to adulthood, but partially due to the abundance of info.  It felt like college football went into a cave on January 2.  It poked it's head out once for a spring game, which you could only see by attending, then the magazine coming out was your first glimse back in, followed by the release of the EA game in July.  It was weird, you could usually guess who was probably going to be good again, but aside from that, you never actually learned who was supposed to be good until you bought the magazine.  But it was beeyond that, simply seeing images of college football was something that wasn't at your fingertips.

The AJC has 2-3 items on Dawg football each day.  You can tell the writers are really struggling for topics.

I usually glance at the title and understand the article is speculation about this or that.  I recall when CFN would do polls and they obviously tried to be "different" as a means to garner attention.  They'd have 2-3 teams high and vice versa relative to most preseason rankings.  And they'd get the expected comments (clicks).

It's all well and good to have outliers, but when the motivation is purely sensationalism it isn't very edifying.  We all know that 2-3 top ten ranked teams will end up 8-5 (or worse) and a few 11-25 teams will be top ten, and one likely makes the FF.  I think UGA was about 15th last year preseason and did it.  And FSU of course faltered, but should be pretty good this year I think.

I like the preseason OL 1st team, but they are missing one more Badger.

You want to talk sensationalism - Athlon has Alabama's backup QB as 1st team all-SEC.  So there's that.  

Made a special trip to Barnes & Nobles yesterday and am keeping my eyes open in the airport bookstands, but all I've seen so far is Athlon's. Anyone starting to see Lindy's or Steele's?