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For the second season in a row, Georgia is ranked No. 1 in the preseason AP poll. Several familiar faces are in the top 25 for the Bulldogs, with three of last season’s four school football playoff teams making the top 10.
The Bulldogs are joined in the top five by No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Texas and No. 5 Alabama. Rounding out the top 10 are No. 6 Ole Miss, No. 7 Notre Dame. , No. 8 Penn State, No. nine Michigan and No. 10 Florida State.
Here’s the entire preseason AP Top 25 poll.
Other vote winners: Louisville 111, Virginia Tech 77, Boise St. 47, SMU 33, Iowa St. 33, Liberty 32, Washington 23, West Virginia 17, Memphis 16, Nebraska 16, Wisconsin 15, UTSA 6, Tulane 5 , Appalachian Street 4, Kentucky 3, Auburn 2, Colorado 1.
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Florida (41), Michigan (38) and LSU (36) are the top 10.
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The SEC and the Big Ten lead all meetings with four teams of top 10 each. Here’s a breakdown of the top 25 during the conference:
Georgia moves back into first place after Heisman candidate quarterback Carson Beck opted to stay for his senior season. Defending national champion Michigan fell to ninth place after wasting thirteen players in the NFL Draft. Three of the four CFP teams remained in the top 10, with Texas (No. 4) and Alabama (No. 5) returning their own Heisman candidate quarterbacks in Quinn Ewers and Jalen Milroe.
No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Oregon are starting completely new under center, with Kansas’ Will Howard replacing the Buckeyes and Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel moving to the Ducks. Under the convention’s new realignments, the top 10 is made up of 4 SEC Representatives and four Big Ten Representatives, while independent Notre Dame and Florida State of the ACC occupy the bottom two spots.
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Washington, a CFP finalist, dropped the top 25 to start the season after Heisman finalist Michael Penix Jr. lost in the NFL Draft and head coach Kalen DeBoer left for Tuscaloosa. ACC’s top-ranked Florida State found its replacement for Jordan Travis. in former Oregon state quarterback DJ Uiagalelei.
Notre Dame, the only top-25 team that is a member of one of the new Big Four meetings (SEC, ACC, Big Ten and Big 12), will begin its season with Duke move Riley Leonard at the helm of the offensive. At the start of the 2024 season, 12 of the top 25 teams are expected to sign new quarterbacks, adding four of the top 10.
On a stacked Week 1 roster, Georgia’s No. 1 vs. No. Clemson’s 14 will be the game to watch when the top-ranked SEC and the second-ranked ACC team meet at noon in an even-handed game that will almost have the University. Implications for the upcoming football playoffs.
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As for the other key matchups, College GameDay goes foreign for the first time when No. 10 Florida State takes on Georgia Tech at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. This is the third consecutive season in which a Week 0 adjustment will be played. Ireland. Next Saturday, the eighth-seeded Nittany Lions will travel to Morgantown to take on West Virginia in a tough opener against Penn State.
The College GameDay bus will return across the pond for the scheduled Week 1 game between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 20 Texas A.
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Jordan Howard is a graduate of the University of Georgia and works as a graduate intern for NCAA Digital. He is a Hearst-nominated journalist and his print work has appeared in The Marietta Daily Journal, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and UGA Rivals. . Howard enjoys analyzing the latest trends and figures, specializing in football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse.
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