AP Top 25 poll: Georgia at No. 1, Michigan edges Ohio State in college football rankings for 2023 preseason

Kickoff to the 2023 college football season is all of a sudden drawing near, and Georgia will once more be the workforce to overcome. The two-time protecting nationwide champions crowned the preseason AP Top 25, launched Monday, marking this system’s first preseason AP No. 1 score since 2008. Georgia, coming into its 8th season underneath trainer Kirby Smart, takes the highest spot after Alabama — fourth in Monday’s ballot — crowned the preseason ballot in each and every of the previous two summers. 

Michigan, coming into its 9th season underneath trainer Jim Harbaugh, got here in proper in the back of the Bulldogs at No. 2 with two first-place votes. The two-time protecting Big Ten champions have reached the College Football Playoff in each and every of the previous two years. Fueled by way of quarterback J.J. McCarthy and a operating again duo of Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards, the Wolverines search to transparent a hurdle after falling in the CFP semifinals in each 2021 and 2022.

No. 3 Ohio State follows with a first-place vote, and fifth-year trainer Ryan Day seeks a go back to the CFP and this system’s first Big Ten name since 2020. The Buckeyes personal what’s broadly noticed as the most efficient huge receiver room in the country, headlined by way of Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka. Who might be throwing to them is a query mark, on the other hand, with quarterbacks Kyle McCord and Devin Brown competing for the beginning position.

Further down, No. 24 Tulane makes its first look in the preseason AP ballot in program historical past. The 2022 AAC and Cotton Bowl champions are favorites to copy in the American, and a Sept. 9 alternative vs. No. 22 Ole Miss is a date unquestionably rotated at the Green Wave’s calendar. 

Here’s a complete glance at the highest 25 (first-place votes in parenthesis): 

1. Georgia (60)
2. Michigan (2)
3. Ohio State (1)
4. Alabama
5. LSU 
6. USC
7. Penn State
8. Florida State
9. Clemson 
10. Washington
11. Texas 
12. Tennessee
13. Notre Dame
14. Utah 
15. Oregon
16. Kansas State
17. TCU
18. Oregon State
19. Wisconsin
20. Oklahoma
21. North Carolina
22. Ole Miss
23. Texas A&M
24. Tulane
25. Iowa

Others receiving votes: Texas Tech (101), South Carolina (73), UCLA (66), UTSA (64), Arkansas (22), Boise St. (17), Pittsburgh (16), Kentucky (14), Louisville (10), Troy (10), Auburn (7), Minnesota (6), Toledo (4), Duke (4), Mississippi St. (4), Florida (4), Illinois (3), Baylor (3), Coastal Carolina (3), South Alabama (1), NC State (1), James Madison (1), Liberty (1).