Dawgs, Bucks, Ducks leading coaches’ preseason poll
NEW YORK CITY– After having their two-year run as national champions come to an end, the Georgia Bulldogs will open the season ranked No. 1 in the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll.The Bulldogs received 46 of the 55 first-place votes from college football coaches in the poll released Monday. Preseason No. 2 Ohio State got seven votes at No. 1 and was followed by Oregon, Texas and Alabama in the leading five.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated The Associated Press preseason college football poll is arranged to be launched next Monday.Texas and defending nationwide champ Michigan each likewise got a first-place vote. The Wolverines will open ranked
No. 8 after losing coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback JJ McCarthy to the NFL.The No. 6 ranking by the Ole Miss Rebels represents the program’s greatest preseason ranking in the coaches ‘survey given that 1970. Notre Dame is No. 7, and Penn State and Florida State follow Michigan to round out the top 10.1. Georgia(46)13. Utah 2. Ohio State( 7) 14. Clemson 3. Oregon 15. Tennessee 4. Texas (1) 16. Oklahoma 5. Alabama 17. Kansas St. 6. Ole Miss 18.
| Oklahoma St. 7. Notre Dame | |
| 19. Miami 8. Michigan | (1) 20. Texas A&M 9 |
| . Penn State 21 | . Arizona 10 |
| . Florida State 22. NC State 11. Missouri | |
| 23. USC 12. LSU 24. | |
| Kansas 25. Iowa First-place votes in | |
| parenthesis The Southeastern Conference | |
| had nine teams in the | survey, including half |
| of the top 12, with Missouri at No. 11 and LSU at No. 12. It’s the greatest starting area for SEC beginner Texas because 2010 and the most affordable for the Crimson Tide | |
| because 2009. The Big | |
| Ten likewise | |
| had 4 teams in the top |
10 and six ranked in general, and the Huge 12 opens with five ranked teams.Independent Notre Dame was the only team outside the Power 4 conferences that was ranked.National runner-up Washington simply missed out on the top 25.