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K-State, Mizzou Open Season in AP Top 25

Kansas State and Missouri will kickoff the 2014 college football season ranked in the AP Top 25. The Wildcats came in at no. 20 in the AP Preseason Poll. The Tigers will start the season ranked no. 24.

K-State is one of thee Big 12 teams in the AP Preseason Top 25. Oklahoma begins the season ranked fourth. The Sooners received one first-place vote. Baylor is ranked tenth.

The SEC led all conferences with eight teams in the Top 25. Alabama is second (one first-place vote), defending conference champion Auburn is sixth, followed by South Carolina (ninth), Georgia (12th), LSU (13th), Ole Miss (18th), Texas A&M (21st) and Mizzou (24th).

Defending national champion Florida State is no. 1. The Seminoles received 57 of 60 first-place votes.

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College Football

AP Preseason Top 25 Poll

  1. Florida State (57)
  2. Alabama (1)
  3. Oregon (1)
  4. Oklahoma (1)
  5. Ohio State
  6. Auburn
  7. UCLA
  8. Michigan State
  9. South Carolina
  10. Baylor
  11. Standford
  12. Georgia
  13. LSU
  14. Wisconsin
  15. USC
  16. Clemson
  17. Notre Dame
  18. Ole Miss
  19. Arizona State
  20. K-State
  21. Texas A&M
  22. Nebraska
  23. North Carolina
  24. Missouri
  25. Washington