2020 Associated Press Preseason Football Top 25 Poll Includes Four Big 12 Teams

The 2020 Associated Press Preseason Football Top 25 poll includes four Big 12 teams: Oklahoma (#5), Texas (#14), Oklahoma State (#15) and Iowa State (#23). TCU was among "other teams receiving votes."

This season's 85th edition of the AP rankings will be like none before.

When the season starts -- if the season starts -- the Buckeyes and 53 other Bowl Subdivision teams will no longer be eligible for inclusion in the Top 25 because they have postponed their seasons until the spring.

All Division I teams were eligible for the preseason AP Top 25, but after the season starts, only teams scheduled to play in the fall are eligible. That leaves 76 FBS teams from which to choose.

Access the preseason poll: here

 

The Associated Press began its college football poll on October 19, 1936. It is the longest-running poll of those that award national titles at the end of the season. The preseason poll was started in 1950. A panel of 60 sports writers and broadcasters from around the country votes on the poll weekly. The AP Top 25 is determined by a simple points system based on how each voter ranks the teams. A team receives 25 points for each first- place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the point totals from highest to lowest. 

Here is the 2020 Preseason AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

 

1) Clemson (38)
2) Ohio State (21)
3) Alabama (2)

4) Georgia

5) Oklahoma (2)

6) LSU (1)

7) Penn State

8) Florida

9) Oregon

10) Notre Dame

11) Auburn

12) Wisconsin

13) Texas A&M

14) Texas

15) Oklahoma State

16) Michigan

17) USC

18) North Carolina

19) Minnesota

20) Cincinnati

21) UCF

22) Utah

23) Iowa State

24) Iowa

25) Tennessee

Others receiving votes: Memphis 86, Virginia Tech 85, Boise State 68, Arizona State 66, Miami 42, Louisville 32, Appalachian State 26, Washington 21, Kentucky 20, Indiana 19, Baylor 15, California 11, TCU 9, Virginia 7, Navy 6, Florida State 6, SMU 3, Mississippi State 3, Air Force 3, Northwestern 1, UAB 1