College Football: Contenders, pretenders in 2020 preseason AP Top 25
By John Vogel
The first official college football AP Top 25 poll for the 2020 season has been released and here are the contenders, pretenders and dark-horses.
Every season, the release of the preseason AP poll spells the beginning of the college football season. Although this season, presuming that there is one, will be very different than seasons past, it did not stop the AP from releasing its annual poll.
Here’s the top 25 for starters:
- Clemson
- Ohio State (not playing)
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Oklahoma
- LSU
- Penn State (not playing)
- Florida
- Oregon (not playing)
- Notre Dame
- Auburn
- Wisconsin (not playing)
- Texas A&M
- Texas
- Oklahoma State
- Michigan (not playing)
- USC (not playing)
- North Carolina
- Minnesota (not playing)
- Cincinnati
- UCF
- Utah (not playing)
- Iowa State
- Iowa (not playing)
- Tennessee
Now, this is highly untraditional, but these are desperate times. Let’s remove the teams that are not playing, and include the schools that received votes that are playing in their place:
- Clemson (1520 points)
- Alabama (1422)
- Georgia (1270)
- Oklahoma (1270)
- LSU (1186)
- Florida (1125)
- Notre Dame (995)
- Auburn (852)
- Texas A&M (764)
- Texas (703)
- Oklahoma State (672)
- North Carolina (496)
- Cincinnati (234)
- UCF (229)
- Iowa State (199)
- Tennessee (133)
- Memphis (86)
- Virginia Tech (85)
- Miami (42)
- Louisville (32)
- Appalachian State (26)
- Kentucky (20)
- Baylor (15)
- TCU (9)
- Virginia (7)
Let’s talk about it.