From the 2014 season through 2023, the No. 1 team in the AP preseason poll made the playoff seven times — 2015 preseason No. 1 Ohio State was the only team from that group to not make the ...

Predicting the preseason college football rankings is something Phil Steele is pretty good at, and now he’s come through with his latest projection as the first official AP top 25 poll is set to ...

S-E-C. As expected, the SEC leads the way in the AP top 25 with six teams featured in the preseason rankings, followed by the Big Ten and Pac-12 with five, the Big 12 with four, and the ACC has ...

2024 Preseason College Football AP Poll Prediction: Notre Dame I did this exercise a few weeks ago for the Irish, and I'll do it one more time just before the real preseason AP Top 25 is released ...

There were a total of six Big Ten teams ranked in the initial AP Top 25 poll, including four in the top 10. Ohio State and new member Oregon led the charge, coming in at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.

All this is to say, preseason college football rankings are an inexact science and the preseason AP Top 25 is comprised of writers with opinions going into a given season.

Take all the AP Poll preseason rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the AP Poll preseason No. 1 gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

College football's AP Top 25 preseason rankings for 2023 release on Monday, a week after the coaches poll officially kicked off rankings season. While writers may have a different interpretation ...