One of the signs I always pointed to for college football to be rounding the corner towards the home stretch of a season was when the preseason college football magazines came out. And while there are surely fewer paper copies being sold now than when I was running through the grocery store to pick them up, there’s still a following for the magazines both in hand and online.
That’s where Athlon Sports comes in. It has been a part of the annual parade to the grocery store for me for years, and it’s that time of the year yet again — though as mentioned — I get a lot of the information online now.
We’ve already discussed where Ohio State falls in its preseason top 25 rankings, but Athlon also published a list of 35 breakout players heading into the 2020 college football season. So what two players does the annual preseason publication have in the listing?
Let’s go through it.