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Aug 16, 2021 12:25 pm

Alabama No. 1, Oklahoma No. 2 in AP Top 25 Poll

Defending national champion Alabama will open the 2021 season in the same position it ended last year – at No. 1.

The Crimson Tide are the favorites to repeat, receiving 47 first-place votes in the Associated Press preseason poll released Monday.



Oklahoma is No. 2 with six votes, and Clemson is third, also with six first-places votes. No. 4 Ohio State (one vote) and Georgia (three) round out the top five.

Alabama opens the season Sept. 4 against No. 14 Miami in Atlanta as the Tide seek a seventh national championship under coach Nick Saban.

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Clemson and Georgia will meet that day, as well, in Charlotte, N.C.

Texas A&M, Iowa State, Cincinnati, Notre Dame and North Carolina round out the top 10. The Cyclones match their highest national ranking ever. The Aggies and Fighting Irish finished 4-5 in the final poll of 2020.

Power 5 Dominate Rankings

The poll features five teams each from the Southeastern Conference, Big Ten and Pac-12, three from the Atlantic Coast Conference and three from the Big 12.

The Sun Belt Conference has two teams in the AP Top 25: No. 22 Coastal Carolina and No. 23 Louisiana.

11-15 Rankings

  • 11. Oregon
  • 12. Wisconsin
  • 13. Florida
  • 14. Miami
  • 15. Southern Cal
  • 16. LSU
  • 17. Indiana
  • 18. Iowa
  • 19. Penn State
  • 20. Washington
  • 21. Texas
  • 22. Coastal Carolina
  • 23. Louisiana
  • 24. Utah
  • 25. Arizona St.

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