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AP Top 25: Florida Is No. 1

Posted Aug 22, 2009 10:44AM By Michael David Smith (RSS feed)

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The Florida Gators will enter the 2009 college football season the way they left the 2008 season: As the No. 1 team in the country.

The Associated Press Top 25 was released Saturday morning, and the Gators received 58 of 60 first-place votes. That represents 96.7 percent of the first-place votes, the most any team has ever received in a preseason AP poll. The previous high was two years ago, when USC got 95.4 percent of the first-place votes (62 of 65) in the 2007 preseason poll. The Trojans didn't win the national title that year.

The other two first-place votes went to Texas, which finished in second place. Oklahoma, USC and Alabama round out the top 5.

Here's the full Associated Press Top 25:
1. Florida (58)
2. Texas (2)
3. Oklahoma
4. Southern Cal
5. Alabama
6. Ohio St
7. Virginia Tech
8. Mississippi
9. Oklahoma St.
9. Penn St.
11. LSU
12. California
13. Georgia
14. Boise St.
15. Georgia Tech
16. Oregon
17. TCU
18. Florida St.
19. Utah
20. BYU
21. North Carolina
22. Iowa
23. Notre Dame
24. Nebraska
25. Kansas

Others receiving votes: Oregon St. 122, Illinois 105, Pittsburgh 103, Michigan St. 100, Rutgers 83, Texas Tech 76, West Virginia 57, Cincinnati 44, Clemson 42, Miami 40, East Carolina 30, Tennessee 15, Arizona 13, N.C. State 10, Boston College 9, Auburn 7, Cent. Michigan 7, UCLA 7, Northwestern 5, Missouri 3, South Florida 3, Southern Miss. 3, Vanderbilt 3, South Carolina 2, Arkansas 1, Houston 1, Nevada 1, Troy 1, Tulsa 1

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