AP Top 25: Georgia Bulldogs starting 2024 season at No. 1 in preseason poll

ATHENS, Ga. — The college football season is finally here and the Associated Press released its preseason poll on Monday with the Dawgs on top again.

Georgia is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason college football poll for the second straight year. UGA picked up 46 first-place votes, including one from Channel 2 sports director Zach Klein who is the only TV reporter in the Georgia market with a vote.

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Ohio State, Oregon, SEC newcomer Texas and Alabama finish out the top five for the preseason poll. Since the poll started in 1950, only 11 teams who were ranked No. 1 in preseason finished No. 1 at the end of the year.

2024 season will feature not just teams switching conferences, but the College Football Playoff expanding as well.

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At SEC Media Days in July, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said his team is ready for any challenges that come their way.

““We don’t have a chip on our shoulder in terms of people trying to use that as motivation. I’ve never used a failure from the previous year as motivation and never used the success of a previous year as motivation; we won’t do that this year. That’s not who we are. We want to recreate ourselves to stay in the best light we can,” he said.

Here is the complete preseason top 25.