Alabama tops preseason AP football poll

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08/21/2010 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide are still at the top of the college football world as the top- ranked team in the preseason Associated Press poll, which was released Saturday.

Alabama received 54 of 60 first-place votes and a total of 1,491 points, while Ohio State checked in at No. 2 with three first-place votes and 1,400 points.

Boise State received its highest ranking ever in the polls in the third slot and garnered a single first-place vote. Also receiving a single first-place vote were fifth-ranked Texas, which lost to the Tide in last year's national championship, and seventh-ranked Oklahoma. The Sooners are one of seven teams to jump into the rankings after finishing unranked at the end of last season.

The Florida Gators are ranked fourth and Texas Christian sixth, while Nebraska, Iowa and Virginia Tech round out the top 10.

Slated to be the marquee matchup of college football's opening week is a clash between Boise State and Virginia Tech in Washington, DC. The Cornhuskers, meanwhile, will be starting their final season in the Big 12 before joining the Big Ten next year.

An Oregon Ducks team beset by a seemingly constant barrage of offseason distractions starts the second ten and is followed by Wisconsin, Miami- Florida, Southern California, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, North Carolina, Penn State and Florida State.

The Tar Heels will meet 21st-ranked Louisiana State at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to open their season. UNC, Arkansas and Florida State all finished the 2009 season unranked.

Also sliding into the rankings after an unranked ending to last year are 22nd- ranked Auburn, 23rd-ranked Georgia and No. 24 Oregon State, which will take on T-C-U in its season opener.

Rounding out the top 25 in its unchanged spot from last year's final poll is West Virginia.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.