Associated Press 2021 Preseason Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll Includes One Big 12 Team, Two Big 12 Traitors

 

  

The 2021 Associated Press Preseason Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll includes one Big 12 team, Iowa State (#7) and two Big 12 traitors, Oklahoma (#2) and Texas (#21). 

Big 12 teams Oklahoma State and TCU are listed among "others receiving votes." Oklahoma State (107 points) is in 26th place. TCU (40 points) is in 28th place.

Access the preseason poll: here

This season marks the 86th edition of the AP rankings.

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 2021 Preseason AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

1) Alabama (47 first-place votes) (1548 total points)
2) Oklahoma (6) (1462)
3) Clemson (6) (1447)
4) Ohio State (1) (1393)
5) Georgia (3) (1364)
6) Texas A&M (1,223)
7) Iowa State (1160)
8) Cincinnati (1014)
9) Notre Dame (1009)
10) North Carolina (999)
11) Oregon (968)
12) Wisconsin (743)
13) Florida (728)
14) Miami (663)
15) USC (660)
16) LSU (631)
17) Indiana (549)
18) I0wa (513)
19) Penn State (456)
20) Washington (449)
21) Texas (350)
22) Coastal Carolina (232)
23) Louisiana (208)
24) Utah (176)
25) Arizona State (125)

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma State 107, Ole Miss 106, TCU 40, Liberty 36, Auburn 32, NC State 14, Michigan 12, Northwestern 8, Nevada 7, Boise State 7, Ball State 6, BYU 6, UCF 5, Houston 5, Boston College 5, West Virginia 3, Army 2, UCLA 2, UAB 2

Alabama is tied with Ohio State for the second-most preseason No. 1 rankings with eight. BIg 12 traitor Oklahoma has the most, with 10.

Only two teams have gone wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country during a season. Southern California, in 2004, was the last. The first was undefeated Florida State, in 1999.

No. 8 Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference is the first team from outside the Power Five leagues to be ranked in the preseason top 10 since Louisville started ninth in 2012.