Oklahoma ranked No. 19 in Associated Press preseason poll

Ohio State continues to earn preseason reward, this time for securing the highest spot within the first Related Press prime 25 ballot of the season Sunday. But this isn’t the BCS era anymore, and the AP has long been out of the national title picture.

It’s one thing to be hyped up, and another one entirely to live up to that hype.

You can check out the full top 25 list, and argue why it’s wrong ( I think Tennessee and Arkansas being ranked is a little more due to hype), here.

Anyway, below is the complete AP Top 25 preseason poll. That’s been quite attractive – and where TCU should find its luck historically.

Ohio State was No. 5 in the preseason poll previous year. Sunday’s announcement marks UT’s first appearance in the preseason edition of the AP poll since the 2008 season.

Even among those without scarlet-colored glasses, they are widely seen as a potential all-time great team. That’s a different story.

The most important game of Week 1 in the 2015 college football season will be No. 3 Alabama vs. No. 20 Wisconsin.

OSU will also be trying to join USC (2004) and Florida State (1999) as the only teams to finish the season No. 1 after starting it in the same spot. The running back situation is peerless, the defensive front seven is terrific, and there’s more than enough talent to win the Big 12. 3.

For the first time under Bret Bielema, the Hogs are a ranked team. There aren’t any glaring errors or misreads, however, these three teams are getting way too much preseason love. 1.

Ohio State, which won the first ever College Football Playoff by defeating Alabama in the semifinal and Oregon in the final, was fifth in the 2014 preseason poll and the last team into the playoff as the committee’s No. 4 team. Notre Dame is 11th.

TCU and Baylor, after last year’s tie for the Big 12 championship, both have their highest preseason AP rankings.

Below are the full breakdowns of how the AP preseason No. 1 and No. 2 have ended up performing in the BCS era.