Thursday can't come soon enough. Sometime around lunch, USA Today will release the first college football top 25 of the 2013 season. Once that meaningless poll debuts, we can finally move on from the non-stories of the off-season.

The staff at WDGM decided to put our top 10 polls down on paper so we can begin the conversation just a little bit earlier. Take a look at who we see as the elite in college football for the upcoming season.

Ryan Fowler, Host of The Game

  1. Alabama
  2. Oregon
  3. Louisville
  4. Stanford
  5. Georgia
  6. Texas A&M
  7. Ohio State
  8. Notre Dame
  9. South Carolina
  10. Clemson

Allen Faul, Producer of The Game

  1. Alabama
  2. Ohio State
  3. Georgia
  4. Oregon
  5. Stanford
  6. Texas A&M
  7. Florida State
  8. LSU
  9. Florida
  10. Notre Dame

Chad Haynie, Producer and Broadcaster

  1. Alabama
  2. Stanford
  3. Oregon
  4. South Carolina
  5. Texas A&M
  6. Florida
  7. Georgia
  8. Clemson
  9. Ohio State
  10. Notre Dame

Ben George, Digital Managing Editor

  1. Alabama
  2. Oregon
  3. South Carolina
  4. Ohio State
  5. Stanford
  6. Georgia
  7. Florida State
  8. LSU
  9. Clemson
  10. Nebraska

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