The Georgia Bulldogs will start the 2024 college football season as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, according to the Associated Press' Preseason Top 25 College Football Poll released on Monday (August 12).
Georgia won back-to-back College Football Playoff National Championships in 2021 and 2022 before being snubbed by the College Football Playoff committee last December. The Bulldogs finished the 2023 season with a 13-1 (8-0) record, which included a blowout win against Florida State in the Orange Bowl, and the No. 4 ranking in the final AP poll.
The top 5 also includes perennial contender Ohio State at No. 2, followed by Oregon, entering its first season in the Big Ten Conference; Texas, entering its first season in the Southeastern Conference; and Alabama, entering its first season without seven-time national champion head coach Nick Saban, who announced his retirement in January.
The full Associated Press Preseason Top 25 College Football Poll is listed below:
- Georgia (SEC)
- Ohio State (Big Ten)
- Oregon (Big Ten)
- Texas (SEC)
- Alabama (SEC)
- Ole Miss (SEC)
- Notre Dame (IA Independents)
- Penn State (Big Ten)
- Michigan (Big Ten)
- Florida State (ACC)
- Missouri (SEC)
- Utah (Big 12)
- LSU (SEC)
- Clemson (ACC)
- Tennessee (SEC)
- Oklahoma (SEC)
- Oklahoma State (Big 12)
- Kansas State (Big 12)
- Miami (FL) (ACC)
- Texas A&M (SEC)
- Arizona (Big 12)
- Kansas (Big 12)
- USC (Big Ten)
- North Carolina State (ACC)
- Iowa (Big Ten)