AP Top 25 poll: Alabama, Oklahoma lead first college football rankings of 2021 season

The defending nationwide champion Alabama Crimson Tide enter the 2021 season the best way they left the 2020 season — No. 1 within the AP High 25. With college football starting in lower than two weeks, Alabama is clearly projected as the highest crew within the nation as soon as once more this season, receiving 47 of 62 first-place votes within the preseason school soccer rankings.

It ought to come as no shock that nationwide powers Oklahoma, Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia fill out the remainder of the highest 5 given their frequent appearances within the School Soccer Playoff. Texas A&M and Oregon, two groups with extraordinarily excessive hopes heading into the season, chime in on the No. 8 and No. 11, respectively. 

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Here’s a take a look at all the AP High 25. First-place votes are in parenthesis.

2021 Preseason AP High 25

1. Alabama (47)
2. Oklahoma (6)
3. Clemson (6)
4. Ohio State (1)
5. Georgia (3)
6. Texas A&M
7. Iowa State
8. Cincinnati
9. Notre Dame
10. North Carolina
11. Oregon
12. Wisconsin
13. Florida
14. Miami (FL)
15. USC
16. LSU
17. Indiana
18. Iowa
19. Penn State
20. Washington
21.Texas
22. Coastal Carolina
23. Louisiana
24. Utah
25. Arizona State

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