Alabama tops AP Top 25 preseason poll Clemson Okla : 0xbt

Alabama tops AP Top 25 preseason poll Clemson Okla

The top of the looks awfully similar to last season's College Football Playoff lineup.Alabama, Clemson and Oklahoma take up the top three spots, respectively, with Florida State rounding out the top four; Michigan State (No. 12) is the only team from last year's playoff who didn't make the top four.MORE: Alabama, Calvin Ridley T Shirts long suspected to be the No. 1 team at the start of the season, led all teams with 33 first-place votes, and 1,469 points total. Clemson had the second-most first-place votes with 16, but still tallied 1,443 total points, only 26 fewer than the Tide.A total of seven teams received first-place votes in the preseason poll: Those teams, apartfrom Alabama and Clemson, are Oklahoma (4), FSU Michael Vick Jersey (5), LSU (1), Ohio State (1) and Michigan (1).MORE: The Southeastern Conference led all conferences in number of ranked teams, with six, and number of top-10 teams, with three. Those are Alabama (No. 1), LSU (No. 5), Tenne see (No. 9), Ole Mi s (No. 11), Georgia (No. 18) and Florida Darren Hall Jersey (No. 25). The Pac-12 came in second withfive teams ranked, while the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC each had four teams represented. Notre Dame, an independent, came in at No. 10, while Houston, the only Group of 5 team, came in ranked at No. 15.Here are the full rankings:No. 1: Atlanta Falcons Home Office AlabamaNo. 2: ClemsonNo. 3: OklahomaNo. 4: Florida StateNo. 5: LSUNo. 6: Ohio StateNo. 7: MichiganNo.8: StanfordNo. 9: Tenne seeNo. 10: Notre DameNo. 11: Ole Mi sNo. 12: Michigan StateNo. 13: TCUNo. 14: WashingtonNo. 15: HoustonNo. 16: UCLANo. 17: IowaNo. 18: GeorgiaNo. 19: LouisvilleNo. 20: USCNo. 21:Oklahoma StateNo. 22: North CarolinaNo. 23: BaylorNo. 24: OregonNo. 25: FloridaOthers receiving votes: Miami 159, Texas A&M 81, Utah 74, Washington St. 68, Boise St. 49, San Diego St. 46, Wisconsin 42, Warrick Dunn Jersey Auburn 22, Pittsburgh 15, Arkansas 14, Texas 12, Nebraska 11, Navy 8, Northwestern 5, W. Kentucky 4, South Florida 2, Toledo 2.