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Hello, fellow Sickos Committee members! You likely followed this really silly social media account over the off-season and didn’t know what you fully stumbled into. Well, we welcome you to the Sickos Committee, and now it’s time to vote for the 2025 Sickos Preseason Poll!

For veterans of the poll and our long time followers, welcome back, and it is time to vote again as the season is upon us!

You may ask yourself, "Well, what the hell is a “Sickos” team anyway?”

Well, that’s completely up to you!

Keep in mind that these are the teams YOU wanted to watch during the season based on whatever you deem “unconventionally appealing” reasons.

Where someone in their right mind might only tune in for a Top 25 match-up and then go about their weekend. We’re a bit different here. We’re on the couch (family allowing) for 12 hours or more if there is a Hawaii Test on a Saturday. We’re watching all the midweek MACtion and Thursday night games.

We’re the “Sickos” of the college football world, watching as much of it as we can, no matter who is playing, what channel the game is on, or the time. We get just as hyped for Yale vs Youngstown State, New Mexico State vs UTEP, Montana State vs. Montana, Akron vs. Kent State, ULM vs the Ragin’ Cajuns, and really any other game you can name, the same way most normal folks do for a Top 25 match-up.

This isn't ironic, and we truly love it all. We know we only get about four months of this out of the year, and we’d be begging for a game, any game, no matter who was playing in mid-April or May. I’ll be dreaming about the Northwestern vs Illinois snow game in May, I know that much.

Furthermore, we ultimately understand that this is likely the last chance for most of the players get to play football, a game we so dearly love, for the last time in their lives.

So, why not celebrate every moment of it?

Here are some questions to ask to try to get you into a “Sickos” voting mindset to vote in the poll.

Is it a team that started preseason ranked #2, fired their coach, and struggled to finish 6-6, just barely making a bowl game? Is it a coach who basically manipulated all of college football media with his decision to change schools and leave a playoff team? Maybe it’s a team where the governor just essentially fired the athletic director? Maybe a team that never won a road game under their fired coach, and then they went and upset a ranked team with the interim? Maybe a team that was ranked in the top 15 in the preseason poll has flamed out and a bowl wasn't reached? How about both teams that were maybe cursed by losing in Ireland? A Power 5 team that lost to a G5 team? A G5 team that lost to an FCS team? An FCS team that lost to an NAIA and/or D3 team? Maybe a team who hired a former legendary NFL coach, who has a girlfriend who is far from the same age and was the subject of multiple Pablo Torre Finds Out episodes, and the season ended 4-8 with the girlfriend now indicating a lawsuit is coming? Or the same school whose athletic director went to Saudi Arabia to try to get NIL funds? A school just had their athletic director leave suddenly, and now the head coach is the interim athletic director, but then they hired the kid from The Blind Side movie to be their new athletic director? Maybe a team who started 3-1 or 4-0, but then both of these teams lost their remaining games after September to finish 3-9 and 4-8. Maybe a team that finished 2-7 on field goals for the entire year? How about an athletic director of a team banning tortillas? Maybe you want to vote for a coach that was fired and will get a 37 million dollar buyout owed within 60 days? Maybe a team that has an interim coach for this year only but then just named him the permanent coach? How about a team that has to travel cross-country a ton due to the crazy conference realignment? Maybe a team that tried to go to FBS but couldn’t get an invitation to a conference? Or a team where you’re incredibly confused about what they are doing this year? Or a team’s coach who makes baffling clock management decisions? Or maybe it’s a team that cannot stop playing one-possession games that make you ask if your heart is healthy enough to watch their football games? Maybe it is a team that has won three 1-point games and somehow made a bowl game at 6-6? Maybe a team firing their winningest coach in history after a loss to an in-state school? A team who somehow kept losing games in an improbable fashion, which led to their special teams coach and then head coach getting fired? Maybe a team with a top ranked offense but a bottom ranked defense? How about a team who somehow made it into their conference championship game due to crazy tiebreakers at 7-5? Or maybe a team who shot off fireworks after they made a field goal down 45 points? Or maybe a team that started 3-0 with a big win in their first game but then somehow finished 5-7? Or a team that wrecked the conference championship with an improbable win after firing their coach a week before? Or maybe it is a team who just fired their coach and were baffled with who they replaced them with? What about a team who nearly finished the season with a positive point differential while finishing 2-10?

Now, Sickos can mean many things, and being a “Sickos” team isn’t always a bad thing. Here are some possible examples of being a “good” Sickos team.

How about a team that is now an absolute killing machine flying in the face of their entire school’s football history? Maybe a team who lost 73 players and coaches and their athletic director, but somehow they have gone 9-3 and nearly made the Mountain West Championship game if not for computers? What about the Mountain West computer itself? How about a late-night school on the islands with an improbable run to 8-4 and a kicker named the Tokyo Toe? Or a sneaky G5 team that makes the best halftime adjustments to blow out their opponent and may sneak into the CFP? How about the two teams who just moved up to FBS both making a bowl game in their first year? How about an improbable turnaround from a place that started calling itself THE ‘SAW? What about a team that was on a 20+ game losing streak and somehow made it to 5-7 this year? Or a team that went undefeated at home and finished 9-3, beating an ACC Championship-participating team? Or a team that had a relatively down year fired their coach but blocked their rival from a bowl game and may likely block another team from getting into the CFP? How about an FCS team that went undefeated at home in their first-ever season, finishing an unthinkable 9-3? Maybe you want to just vote for a conference being so incredibly fun and insane (ahem ACC)? Or a team that nearly had an impenetrable home-field advantage? What about a team with an improbable turnaround to make it to 9-3 (multiple teams did this)? What about a team that was 7-0 at home but 0-5 on the road? What about a team that finished 5-7, and it was their best record since 2017? Or maybe a team that has a Heisman candidate and was hitting marks of their program they had only hit in the 1910s? Or a team that will likely make the CFP with an insane, suffocating defense, but the offense is either boom or bust? Maybe an FCS team that missed the FCS playoffs but had a machine of an offense? Or another FCS team that went 10-2, getting wins in different area codes?

Or maybe you have random reasons for voting for Sickos teams.

Maybe a team with a Maccoon for a turnover chain that absolutely rules who did a giveaway for scarves and allowed us to send a message on the Jumbotron? What about a Persian cat that became the team’s unofficial mascot? Maybe a team with a cat named Pudge and a coach who has a crazy method to make a turkey? Maybe it is a team with the strangest week-to-week game preview? Maybe a team with a haunting mascot? What about a team whose coach said a game doesn't matter because it is not a conference game and then called himself a dumbass? Maybe they threw a halftime Hail Mary after a punt doinked off their returner's helmet? Maybe Commish sings the song in honor of their football team winning in different area codes? Maybe a section of fans in 2-NoShirty-1 going tarps off in a game? What about that same team's fans dressing in banana costumes and parading around the stands? Maybe Commish won’t stop talking about this New Jersey-based FCS team with an awesome offense (yes, this is the second mention of Monmouth)? Or a team that dumped goalposts into their president’s backyard pool after a walk-off winning field goal? What about a punter's clotheslining the crap out of a punt returner, and they had to have him kick extra points because their kicking situation was so bad? A team with a kicker who learned how to kick from YouTube? A team with a tight end who learned how to play from YouTube? What about a team with an insane glow-in-the-dark airbrushed jersey and the weirdest halftime shows in all of CFB? How about a team that celebrated winning the longest punt of the week? Or a team that brought back their sweet turquoise jerseys? Or a team that let Commish on their stadium’s roof? Maybe someone wearing camo uniforms? Or maybe all the snow games that just occurred? What about a team who has a bouncy castle in their end zone in Poughkeepsie, NY and the Committee is looking to buy ad space on it next year?

You ultimately get to decide who are your Top 10 Sickos teams are based on whatever criteria you use. Since “Sickos” is incredibly undefinable, the choice is up to you and who you feel has earned your vote.

 (If you feel like some team or person is really Sickos in another sport like Formula 1, NASCAR, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, etc., you can submit those choices in your ballot also, and we will track those categories in others receiving votes.)

We really love it when you pick 10 different teams/people/places or things! Don’t ballot stuff please! We may throw those out if we can’t figure out why you did this!

Also, we ask you to not be derogatory, please, as we will remove those items from the poll, and they will NOT be listed. We’re “Sickos” because we watch all the games, and we’re not Sickos who make fun of real-life situations, which are sensitive in nature.

Basically, don’t be a jerk with your votes, this is supposed to be all fun and mainly vibes based.

Also, any votes for politicians or politics-based votes WILL BE THROWN OUT. So, be nice to our Lord of the Spreadsheets Kevin, who tallies all these votes up.

Again, we call ourselves Sickos because we try to watch all the games, no matter what the records are, because we support all the teams, except our no good rivals 😉 . We try to keep this poll for on-the-field reasons or in-the-stands reasons only.

(We require a Google sign-in to try to limit everyone to one ballot per person to avoid ballot stuffing, and we do NOT collect email addresses.)

Also, you only have to vote for your Top 5 Sickos Teams, but we grant you the chance to select up to 10 teams because we know keeping track of 10 things from this season can be tough.

Wherever you place them in the poll, that team would get a corresponding amount of votes:

• 1st place = 10 pts.

• 2nd place = 9 pts.

• 3rd place = 8 pts.

• 4th place = 7 pts.

• 5th place = 6 pts.

• 6th place = 5 pts.

• 7th place = 4 pts.

• 8th place = 3 pts.

• 9th place = 2 pts.

• 10th place = 1 pt.

We will close the poll on Wednesday December 10th at 9 pm CT and tabulate the votes.

LINK TO VOTE HERE BELOW

After we crown a Sickos National Champion, then we will do a food drive for the winning city of the Sickos Champion. Last year we raised around $11,500.00 for a local Tallahassee food bank for our Florida State Champions. We will do it again and we will likely give away some exclusive swag for a certain dollar donation. I think we’ve raised about $40,000 total in all our years doing this poll.

Link to subscribe to the Sickos Committee Patreon to rank the games on a weekly basis.

If you needed inspiration, here was the 2025 November Poll, but things may have changed in a month! (including the others receiving votes, which we try our best to list them out but this is a manual process and may miss some things and we apologize if we do):

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