College football Week 1 predictions: Texas vs. Ohio State, more picks against the spread

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The majority of the 136 FBS teams don’t open their respective seasons until this weekend, but we can already start slicing down the field of contenders.

In the past decade, there hasn’t been a national champion ranked lower than fifth in the AP preseason poll. Since 1991, just two national champions have emerged from outside the preseason’s top 15.

But unlike most seasons, there has rarely been so much mystery — and such wide floor-to-ceiling variance — among the top teams.

Georgia’s Gunner Stockton has made one career start, a playoff loss to Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish turn to redshirt freshman CJ Carr, who has never appeared in a co