Close enough to have the preseason coaches poll out, and Notre Dame ranks fifth in the initial rankings. Is it too high? Is it too low? And honestly, in the College Football Playoff era, do preseason rankings even matter?

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: