Predicting how AP Top 25 poll voters will react to results during the season can become predictable after studying voter's habits and tendencies.

But predicting how voters will cast their ballots in the first preseason poll of 2025-26? That's anyone's guess. And that anyone will be yours truly.

As I do ahead of each AP Top 25 poll release -- from preseason to the final poll of the postseason -- I will release my No. 1-25 rankings based on how I think voters will rank the teams. Not how I would rank the teams and not how Gary Parrish would rank the teams -- but how I think the teams will be ranked when the ballots are tabulated and the results are published. Purdue shows quiet confidence it can break through in NCAA Tournament, end Big Ten's 25-year title drought Gary Parrish

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