Preseason polls were created to stir up a hornets nest of conversation, rage and exploitative civic pride that only can be expressed by where your alma mater is ranked in a poll a month before the season starts.

They make no sense. Sorta like all the 2016 GOP presidential candidates engaging in a God blessed interminable debate moderated by Satan’s spawn who masquerade as journalists at Fox News.

We know college football polls — like debates — are flawed, pernicious and ooze with bias because nobody knows what the heck they’re talking about.

HBCU Sports presents our inaugural preseason poll regardless.

1. Alcorn State
2. North Carolina A&T
3. North Carolina Central
4. Bethune-Cookman
5. South Carolina State
6. Grambling State
7. Southern
8. Alabama State
9. Jackson State
10. Morgan State
11. Alabama A&M
12. Virginia State
13. Winston Salem State
14. Tuskegee
15.  Norfolk State
16. Hampton
17. Howard
18. Prairie View
19. Tennessee State
20. Mississippi Valley State
21. Texas Southern
22. Arkansas Pine Buff
23. Florida A&M
24. Delaware State
25. Savannah State