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!

For many of you, this may be your first time being tasked with voting in a Sickos Committee poll, and you might not know what to do. Well, Sickos Committee Commissioner Escalante aka the Commish has made this poll explainer just for you!

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And 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 want to watch during the season based on whatever you deem “unconventionally appealing” reasons.

Where someone in their right mind might only tune in for #1 Texas vs. #2 Ohio State and then go about their weekend. We’re a bit different here. We’re on the couch 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 Dayton vs. Marist, Incarnate Word vs. Lamar, Montana State vs. Montana, Akron vs. Kent State, ULM vs. Southern Miss, and really any other game you can name, the same way most normal folks do for a Top 25 matchup. We love it all. 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?

Our interests are typically not those of the normal college football fan but they can overlap a little. We’re here for chaos which most people enjoy just not when it happens to your team. We’re here for wild plays, fumbles, interceptions, punts, doinks, and safeties. Not only that, but we love to see two teams struggle to move the ball in a field position battle that may wind up 9-6 with 20 combined punts. (Big Ten West Forever) We would prefer to watch that more than a Top 25 battle with College Football Playoff implications. Yeah, those games are nice, and we will watch them, but give us the game with the punts, the one where every first down is a momentous occasion. We also love to see an insane high-scoring game where it goes to overtime and ends with a caught two-point conversion that doinked off an offensive lineman’s head (that happened in the Central Connecticut State and Robert Morris game last year and decided the FCS playoff conference auto-bid too. Sorry Bobby Mo). Or one where a team is trying to QB sneak into the endzone for the win as time in running out but they fumble and return all the way back the other way. (Sorry Temple, Hooray UConn) 

So, I hope that explains what we are a little bit. But really when it comes down to it, we just love college football so much and can’t get enough of it. Now, I am here to help you vote in the poll.

Here are some questions to ask to try to get you into a “Sickos” voting mindset for the upcoming season.

Is it a team that may have a coach on the hot seat to start the year? A team that hired a new head coach who you don’t think will work out? A team that hired some “interesting” new coordinators in an attempt to save the head coach’s job? Or a coach who replaced the entire staff in his 21st year coaching a team? Maybe a team that you think is ranked too high in the AP or Coaches poll, and you think they will flame out? How about a team that loves to transfer-portal a large chunk of their roster? 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? A Power 5 team that may lose to a G5 team or FCS team in the first few weeks of the season? A school who just got a new Athletic Director, and you’re not too sure how stable the returning head coach's job is? Or a school who just had their Athletic Director leave suddenly and now the Head Coach is the interim Athletic Director? A team that had a really rough year last year but, for some reason, kept their head coach? A team who appeared to be making a breakthrough last year, but they fired their head coach? How about a team who has to travel cross country a ton due to the crazy conference realignment? Maybe a team who tried to go to FBS but couldn’t get an invite to a conference? Or a team where you’re incredibly confused what their plan is for the year? Maybe a team with a motivated coach taking a chance on a 7th year transfer QB? Maybe they’re on a long losing streak which we hope ends soon? What about one of the two new schools coming to FBS?

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.

Is it a team that you think will be unexpectedly good and cause some chaos? A team with a chaos QB that can get turnt and can seemingly will his team to victories against long odds? Is it a plucky G5 team that played spoiler last year, and you think they could do it again and maybe sneak into the College Football Playoff? Is it a team that hasn’t been ranked in an incredibly long time, but you think they will finally get ranked this year? Is it a team that played in the most one possession games last year, and you think they will do it again? Maybe a team that you think will flirt with bowl eligibility for the first time in a while? It could be a team that upset many teams unexpectedly but couldn’t win normal games last year? Maybe a team who made a bowl game unexpectedly, and you’re really curious if they can do it again this year? A team that you think would be happy with 6-6 and a bowl game? A team that started 5-1 unexpectedly in a northeasterly region of a southern state that some people like to mention but lost six straight to end the year? A team that got a new QB in the transfer portal, and you can’t wait to see how it goes? Maybe a team that decided not to renew their coach’s contract even though he won the conference and then another team in conference hired him (thankfully it was a different division)?

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

Is it a team that did the weirdest off-season photo shoot? What about a coach who said something strange at a Media days about a movie for some reason? Maybe it’s a team that got in trouble with the NCAA? Maybe someone talking about length and girth needed to win in a league? Maybe you think they have an incredibly weird stadium or dome? Maybe it’s a team with an incredibly weird schedule and it makes you wonder why they decided to do this to themselves? Maybe it’s a team that got their coach to get Duke’s Mayo dumped on him? Maybe it’s a team that got to eat a gigantic Pop-Tart? Maybe the actual surviving Pop-Tarts? Maybe it’s a team that plays a lot on the CW? Maybe it’s a team that will travel the most miles in this insane conference realignment (looking at you ACC)? Maybe it’s a team that hired an interesting coach as their Tight Ends coach? Maybe it’s teams that will play each other twice this season in a weird de-facto conference championship series? Maybe a raccoon hanging out in the stands in Ypsilanti?

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!

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.

A link to a Google form will be posted on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and in this post a bit further down here. You will be able to select your projected Top 10 Sickos Teams for the 2025 College Football season.

(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.)

Please don’t vote for the same team in every slot. No ballot stuffing please.

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 offseason 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 Tuesday August 19th at 9 pm CT and tabulate the votes.

I’ve linked the poll here!!!

Thank you for participating and we cannot wait for the results of the poll!

At the end of the season and 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.

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If you needed inspiration, here was the 2024 End of Season Poll (including the others receiving votes, which we try our best to list them out but this is a manual process):

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