Hello, fellow Sickos Committee members! You could have 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 2026 Sickos Preseason Poll!

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

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 Harvard vs New Hampshire, New Mexico vs Central Michigan, 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.

It’s the beginning of the season, so the entire range of choices is open to you. Will you vote based on performance last season or the legacy that a team has built over several seasons? Are there offseason events that have caught your interest, football or otherwise? Are you going to look ahead to the coming season and try to predict the future?

Looking at last season, will you vote for 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 moved his coach’s show from a longtime local institution to a pickleball themed restaurant? Is it the same coach who left his dog behind when he switched jobs, only to have it come out that it was maybe never his dog at all, and then brought the dog back at the end of the offseason when his reputation with the new job started to slip? 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? What Power 4 team will lose a buy game to a G6 team? Or a G6 team to an FCS team? An FCS team 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 now has to go to Ireland to play the team that beat them by 34 in last season’s opener? Or the same team that decided bringing in Bobby Petrino was the best way to introduce some stability into the program? Perhaps a team whose head coach is no longer also the interim athletic director because they hired the kid from The Blind Side movie to be their new athletic director? A former star player who started a feud with his old school over whether or not they are allowed to use his number anymore? Did a former coach make a surprise return to be a coordinator at the same school? Did a former coach take a job on a broadcast team that no one asked for?

Looking ahead, maybe a team who has a habit of winning their first 3 or 4 games and then losing out when September ends?  Maybe a team that is ranked in the top 15 in the preseason poll but you expect to flame out and miss a bowl? Will winning the Ireland game be a blessing or a curse this year? Will losing? How about an athletic director of a team banning tortillas? Maybe you want to vote for a coach that might be fired and will get a massive buyout owed within 60 days? How about a team that has to travel cross-country a ton due to the crazy conference realignment? Maybe a team from California that is now in the MAC because it’s the only FBS conference that offered to take them? 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? A team who somehow keeps losing games in an improbable fashion? Maybe a team with a top ranked offense but a bottom ranked defense? Or a great defense but can’t move the ball? How about whatever the ACC is doing for tiebreakers this year? Or maybe a team that will run out of fireworks at a game this season? Or have a food truck catch fire outside the stadium? Or put up a bouncy castle in the end zone? What about the team that hired the coach who ran the best offense in the sport last year and imported his entire offense?

How about a team that is now an absolute killing machine flying in the face of their entire school’s football history? The same team that now has a running back named Turbo?  Maybe a team who lost 73 players and coaches and their athletic director, but somehow went 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 that made an improbable run to 8-4 and a kicker named the Tokyo Toe? Or a sneaky G5 team that made the best halftime adjustments to blow out their opponent and snuck into the CFP? How about the two teams who just moved up to FBS and both made a bowl game in their first year? Or the teams that moved up this year and are playing in very geographically accurate conferences? 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 last year? How many area codes will the Blue Hose get wins in this season?

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? Maybe the college football video game, which added the Maccoon turnover chain as a celebration animation? 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? What about that same team's fans dressing in banana costumes and parading around the stands? Maybe predict the team that Commish will fall in love with this season a la Monmouth last year (I will always love you Monmouth)? Or the next team to dump their goalposts in an unexpected body of water 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 due to two season ending kicker injuries? A team with a tight end who learned how to play from YouTube? 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 an entire conference that signed a sponsorship deal with an energy drink and now you can’t say one without the other?

Did you love the World Cup? Are you confusing your loved ones by yelling “Pausa de hidratación” or “Absolute Chimneys” without any explanation? Did you love the small island nation off the coast of North Africa who humbled the giants of the game with their fearless play and 40 year old goalkeeper? AFTER REVIEW, VOTE IS RED CARD! A giant of the sport who got dragged into the mud by a much lower ranked team and eventually lost because none of their star players were willing to take a penalty kick? Rock Chalk Algeria? Did your favorite baseball team go on a massive win streak only to drop back-to-back series against two of the worst teams in the league? Maybe you remember an entire fanbase melting down over someone being so disrespectful as to take second place on a record table? An Olympian who used his medal interview to apologize to an ex? Maybe it’s a mascot with a haunting stare or one that drinks through its eyes? Your favorite wooden dome stadium? A field with gray turf? Or red? Or teal? Maybe it’s a quarterback who transferred to a team expecting to get the starting job only for last year’s starter to return instead of going to the draft? Follow your heart and let the niche votes fly.

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 (complimentary), and we’re not Sickos who make fun of real-life situations, which are sensitive in nature (derogatory).

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

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.)

For our returning voters, you’ll notice the poll looks a little different this year. To lighten the load of tallying all of the votes on our Lord of the Spreadsheets Kevin, correcting misspellings, and compiling answers from all the people who didn’t read the “don’t explain your vote in the vote” request, etc etc.

If you want to write in something that is not on the prefilled list, whether a coach, iconic playcall, or abstract concept, we have provided three write-in options. Select the Write-In 1, 2, or 3 option from the bottom of the dropdown list (or search it), and then you will have the opportunity to write in the vote of your choice in the corresponding slide at the end of the poll. It will look like this below.

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:

If you needed inspiration, here was the 2025 Sickos National Championship Poll, but things have certainly changed over the offseason! (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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