FORT WORTH -- College football coaches can't agree on the direction the sun rises, but they are in alignment on their loathing of preseason polls.

Which means the smartest move The Associated Press can make is to test that hatred by offering to abolish its celebrated preseason Top 25 college football poll, which began in 1936, in exchange for annual seven-figure checks. (A little unknown detail about the good people who run the AP is that they are almost as greedy as your standard Power Four Division I football coach.)

Much like the bowl system, the polls aren't going away. Disregard the accuracy of the poll; it is great marketing and advertising for the second-most-popular sport in America.

This year's version of the AP Top 25 poll features four teams from Texas, more than any other in

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