by The first Associated Press Top 25 Poll was released over the weekend and at first glance it is what you would expect. The SEC and Big 12 have 5 ranked teams, the ACC has 4, the Big Ten, Mountain West and PAC 10 each have 3 and the WAC and Notre Dame each account for 1. Falling in line with the Coaches’ Poll, there are no ranked Big East teams. Here are the top five.
| 1. Florida (58) 0-0 1,498 |
| 2. Texas (2) 0-0 1,424 |
| 3. Oklahoma 0-0 1,370 |
| 4. USC 0-0 1,313 |
| 5. Alabama 0-0 1,156 |
Florida received a record 96.67% of first place votes besting 2007 USC (95.4%). You can view the full poll here.
The interesting/perplexing/alarming/insane part of the poll are the individual ballots of some voters (via pollspeak.com).
Adam Van Brimmer–Savannah Morning News
2. Utah
8. TCU
9. Texas Tech
21. Oregon State
23. Mizzou
24. LSU
25. Tulsa
Unranked. California
edit F4H: He just resubmitted his final ballot from last season which is even more preposterous than the preposterousness of preseason polls to begin with.
Check out the rest after DAS JUMP.
Jon Wilner–San Jose Mercury News
17. Pitt
18. Alabama
21. Central Michigan
23. Vanderbilt
Doug Lesmerises–Plain Dealer
4. Ole Miss
11. North Carolina
25. Nevada
Kevin Gorman–Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
1. Texas
16. Tennessee
21. Northwestern
Mitch Vingle–The Charleston Gazette
5. Georgia
15. West Virginia
Teddy Feinberg–Las Cruces Sun-News
7. Notre Dame
16. Rutgers
24. UCLA
Joe Giglio–The News & Observer of Raleigh
1. Texas
6. Georgia
21. ECU
24. North Carolina State
Giglio at least defends his position. He thinks Texas will knock off another “greatest team ever” in the Rose Bowl like they did to USC in 2005. It would be very coincidental, but based on returning starters, coaching and talent it is a silly argument. ECU is a little bit of a regional vote.
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1clown on Aug 24, 2009 at 11:08 am:
How is it a silly argument? Florida has already been anointed, just like USC was. USC had Leinart, Bush and most of their defense coming back. The only difference is USC actually had an undefeated season the year before while Florida was the only 1-loss team that lost at home their championship year.
2cgb on Aug 24, 2009 at 11:54 am:
@clown It is silly because it isn’t relevant. There are a lot of similarities, but like I said it would be merely coincidental. Here’s one big different between Florida and USC, they’re different teams! If the scenario does play out, the players from 2005 Texas will have nothing to do with it. Vince Young isn’t quarterbacking Texas. The only way that Texas team will have any impact on the 2009 team is if Mack Brown says, “remember what we did in ‘05.”
3simon on Aug 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm:
Resubmitting last seasons final ballot is brilliant. It has flavorings of both laziness and “doesn’t give a shit”
4beercontrol on Aug 24, 2009 at 3:27 pm:
big east is strugggggglin’. since the conf sucks so bad 1 or 2 teams will be ranked at seasons end after having a bloated record. ND is in the same situation.
5cleet on Aug 26, 2009 at 12:57 pm:
At least the voting in polls like these don’t determine the national champion…oh wait.