Ohio State No. 1 in Associated Press Preseason Top 25

Ohio State is the unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.

The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday.

TCU is No. 2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State. The rest of this year’s preseason top 10 is Auburn, Oregon, Southern California, Georgia and Florida State.

(###) Number of first place votes


1	Ohio State (61) Big Ten Record: 0-0	PV Rank - Points 1,525
2	TCU Big 12 Record: 0-0	- 1,428
3	Alabama SEC Record: 0-0	- 1,322
4	Baylor Big 12 Record: 0-0	- 1,263
5	Michigan State Big Ten Record: 0-0	- 1,256
6	Auburn SEC Record: 0-0	- 1,192
7	Oregon Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 1,156
8	USC Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 1,085
9	Georgia SEC Record: 0-0	- 991
10	Florida State ACC Record: 0-0	- 959
11	Notre Dame Division I FBS Independents Record: 0-0	- 873
12	Clemson ACC Record: 0-0	- 862
13	UCLA Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 698
14	LSU SEC Record: 0-0	- 675
15	Arizona State Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 605
16	Georgia Tech ACC Record: 0-0	- 588
17	Mississippi SEC Record: 0-0	- 563
18	Arkansas SEC Record: 0-0	- 410
19	Oklahoma Big 12 Record: 0-0	- 394
20	Wisconsin Big Ten Record: 0-0	- 393
21	Stanford Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 347
22	Arizona Pac-12 Record: 0-0	- 311
23	Boise State Mountain West Record: 0-0	- 240
24	Missouri SEC Record: 0-0	- 219
25	Tennessee SEC Record: 0-0	- 114