My AP Top 25 ballot: Six SEC teams make my preseason rankings, including Kentucky

The Associated Press college football preseason poll was released Monday.

As an AP voter, I put Alabama at the top of my list because, well, it’s Alabama. And according to none other than Nick Saban, the Crimson Tide’s runner-up finish last season was the result of a “rebuilding year.”

Closer to home, I placed Kentucky at No. 17 on my preseason list, three spots ahead of where UK landed in the voting. I had the Cats as one of six SEC teams included in my rankings along with Alabama (1), Georgia (3), Texas A&M (6), Tennessee (19) and Arkansas (21).

Here’s my ballot:

1. Alabama

2. Ohio State

3. Georgia

4. Clemson

5. Michigan

6. Texas A&M

7. Notre Dame

8. Utah

9. Miami

10. Oregon

11. Oklahoma State

12. North Carolina State

13. Texas

14. Michigan State

15. Southern Cal

16. Oklahoma

17. Kentucky

18. Penn State

19. Tennessee

20. Pittsburgh

21. Arkansas

22. Baylor

23. Wake Forest

24. Cincinnati

25. Wisconsin

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