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The USA Today Preseason Coaches' Poll was just released for the 2025-26 season.

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Rank   Team Record     PTS 1st Prev     Chg     Hi/Lo
1
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0-0 1606       28       NR - 1/1
2
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0-0 1565 20 NR - 2/2
3
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0-0 1525 14 NR - 3/3
4
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0-0 1466 3 NR - 4/4
5
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0-0 1360 0 NR - 5/5
6
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0-0 1324 2 NR - 6/6
7
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0-0 1307 0 NR - 7/7
8
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0-0 1210 0 NR - 8/8
9
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LSU
0-0 1056 0 NR - 9/9
10
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0-0 823 0 NR - 10/10
11
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0-0 806 0 NR - 11/11
12
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0-0 734 0 NR - 12/12
13
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0-0 665 0 NR - 13/13
14
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0-0 580 0 NR - 14/14
15
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0-0 573 0 NR - 15/15
16
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SMU
0-0 555 0 NR - 16/16
17
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0-0 498 0 NR - 17/17
18
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0-0 492 0 NR - 18/18
19
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0-0 460 0 NR - 19/19
20
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0-0 438 0 NR - 20/20
21
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0-0 392 0 NR - 21/21
21
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0-0 392 0 NR - 21/21
23
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BYU
0-0 287 0 NR - 23/23
24
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0-0 261 0 NR - 24/24
25
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0-0 246 0 NR - 25/25
Edited by satyanash
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Posted (edited)

How many fan forums already have threads about how "Texas always gets overranked like this in the preseason" completely oblivious to the fact this is our first preseason #1 ranking ever?

Texags is of course the center square on the bingo card if you're playing at home. 

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Eddie Timanus: Texas makes history in college football's 2025 preseason US LBM Coaches Poll Top 25

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With the start of the college football season less than a month away, the time has come to unveil the preseason US LBM Coaches Poll. And this year, the results create some history and guarantee that the campaign will begin with even more than the usual bang. Texas will open at No. 1 for the first time in the coaches poll. The Longhorns, projected among the early favorites in the crowded SEC, were voted first by 28 of the 67 panelists in this year’s poll.

They’ll get an immediate challenge to that lofty perch, however, as their Week 1 opponent, defending champion Ohio State, will start off at No. 2. The Buckeyes received 20 first-place votes heading an almost equally crowded field of Big Ten contenders. The No. 1 vs No. 2 matchup in the season opener is unprecedented in the history of the coaches poll, and the hype leading up to the clash in Columbus will be as well.

Penn State, expected to be Ohio State’s primary Big Ten challenger, is No. 3 with 14 top nods, giving the preseason poll three teams with double-digit first-place votes for the first time since 2012. Georgia, accustomed to high starting positions in recent years, will begin at No. 4 while claiming three No. 1 votes. Notre Dame, last season’s runner-up, didn’t pick up any firsts in preseason balloting but enters the campaign in good position at No. 5.

The last two No. 1 votes went to Clemson, which will open at No. 6 overall. Oregon is No. 7, with Alabama, LSU and Miami (Fla.) rounding out the initial top 10. The Crimson Tide's ranking at No. 8 is the lowest in the preseason poll since the second season under Nick Saban in 2008. The SEC, in addition to its quartet ranked No. 9 or higher, has a total of nine teams in the Top 25, with a couple more just outside the poll.

The Big Ten has six ranked squads in all. Those include No. 12 Illinois getting its highest starting spot since 1990, and last year’s surprise playoff team Indiana opening at No. 19. The Big 12 has five teams ranked, albeit none higher than defending champion Arizona State at No. 11. The ACC placed its two favorites in the top 10 but only one other, No. 16 SMU, landed in the top 25. No. 25 Boise State is the lone representative of the Group of Five leagues to crack the poll.

 

Posted
13 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Ole Miss, Tenneessee, aggy, and Florida have no business being ranked. It is clearly the SEC effect.

With a healthy DJL they absolutely should be.  Their schedule is brutal however. 

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First time being preseason coaches poll #1 is pretty cool

For all the offseason fluffing, and pants pissing by this community, OU is not ranked 

Posted
11 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I just can't respect any preseason top-25 that ranks either A&M or OU. 

Or Penn State at #1

They will def absolutely no show against Oregon and Ohio State 

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11 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I just can't respect any preseason top-25 that ranks either A&M or OU. 

A&M has finished a season ranked in the AP top 25 only 5 times since 2000. In 2021 they snuck in as the #25 ranked team in the coaches poll for a total of six times in that one. That's......... really, really bad for a school that thinks they're an elite college football program.

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Posted
1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

Ole Miss, Tenneessee, aggy, and Florida have no business being ranked.

Yeah fuck all those teams that no one has seen play a game yet!

Posted
2 hours ago, satyanash said:

The USA Today Preseason Coaches' Poll was just released for the 2025-26 season.

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Rank   Team Record     PTS 1st Prev     Chg     Hi/Lo
1
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0-0 1606       28       NR - 1/1
2
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0-0 1565 20 NR - 2/2
3
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0-0 1525 14 NR - 3/3
4
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0-0 1466 3 NR - 4/4
5
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0-0 1360 0 NR - 5/5
6
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0-0 1324 2 NR - 6/6
7
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0-0 1307 0 NR - 7/7
8
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0-0 1210 0 NR - 8/8
9
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LSU
0-0 1056 0 NR - 9/9
10
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0-0 823 0 NR - 10/10
11
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0-0 806 0 NR - 11/11
12
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0-0 734 0 NR - 12/12
13
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0-0 665 0 NR - 13/13
14
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0-0 580 0 NR - 14/14
15
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0-0 573 0 NR - 15/15
16
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SMU
0-0 555 0 NR - 16/16
17
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0-0 498 0 NR - 17/17
18
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0-0 492 0 NR - 18/18
19
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0-0 460 0 NR - 19/19
20
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0-0 438 0 NR - 20/20
21
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0-0 392 0 NR - 21/21
21
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0-0 392 0 NR - 21/21
23
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BYU
0-0 287 0 NR - 23/23
24
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0-0 261 0 NR - 24/24
25
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0-0 246 0 NR - 25/25

Here's why that's bad news for Texas

                                                      -satya

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Overrated:

-Georgia

-Oregon

-LSU

-Miami

-South Carolina (should not even be ranked)

-Ole Miss (should not even be ranked)

-Tennessee (should not even be ranked)

-Texas 8&4 (should not even be ranked)

Underrated:

-Alabama (yep)

-Arizona State

-Indiana

-Iowa State

-Missouri (their schedule virtually guarantees a 9-3 floor if Pribula is just decent)

-Louisville (see Mizzou)

-Nebraska 

-Minnesota

-Baylor

-Washington

-Georgia Tech

 

 

 

Posted
1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Yeah fuck all those teams that no one has seen play a game yet!

I saw A&M play last year and nothing significant seems to have changed other than them losing their best DL players.

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I'm Missouri on any relatively new head coach at a blue blood. Especially replacing the GOAT. I'm gonna need to see a complete season from Alabama before I buy the DeBoer hype. You can't lost to Vandy and the worst OU team in a quarter century and be a top-10 team the next year. I don't care how many 5-stars they have. 

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Just now, Hank_Hill said:

Is a #1 ranking actually a burden or is that just fan nonsense 

The usual - fans pissing their pants over anything and everything. We make fun of battered aggy syndrome but oh god we are just as bad 

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35 minutes ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

Could’ve done w/o the burden of #1 going into Colombus, but whatever

A team that has gone to the playoffs in back to back years shouldn't shit itself from some preseason expectations. They don't need to learn how to win anymore and shit like that. 

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Personally, I think it's great. More hype. More attention. More talk about us. More hate. 

It used to be a bigger deal than it is now. When the whole thing was a beauty contest it was absolutely a benefit to be ranked high early. But season ending goals aren't at stake because of the poll. Ohio State, Texas, and Penn State all lost late in the season and still got to the semi finals, and Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois at home for goodness sakes. If we drop out of the top of the poll because of a loss somewhere along the way it's not the end of the world.

I think it's fun!

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54 minutes ago, Js1 said:

The usual - fans pissing their pants over anything and everything. We make fun of battered aggy syndrome but oh god we are just as bad 

T-shirt fans heard Saban say “rat poison” one time and act like it applies to them as supporters. Listen to how many idiots you hear it from this season.

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