Michigan unranked, MSU No. 8 in preseason AP Poll

4 Big Ten teams ranked in top 25

The AP top 25 preseason poll was released on Sunday, just 10 days before the first college football game of the year. Michigan State is No. 8 in the poll and Michigan did not make the top 25, receiving enough votes to fall in at No. 37.

Michigan was ranked No. 17 in the preseason poll last season before finishing 7-6 on the year. Michigan State was unranked heading into 2013.

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This is the first time the Wolverines have been left out of the rankings since 2011, when they were unranked to start the season for the fourth year in a row. Michigan finished that season 11-2 and won a Sugar Bowl Championship.

Michigan State is ranked in the preseason top 10 after winning the Rose Bowl in January and finishing the season 13-1.

The entire top 25 goes as follows (with first place votes in parenthesis):

  • Florida State (57) -- 1,496 points
  • Alabama (1) -- 1,361
  • Oregon (1) -- 1,334
  • Oklahoma (1) -- 1,324
  • Ohio State -- 1,207
  • Auburn -- 1,198
  • UCLA -- 1,106
  • Michigan State -- 1,080
  • South Carolina -- 1,015
  • Baylor -- 966
  • Stanford --885
  • Georgia -- 843
  • LSU -- 776
  • Wisconsin -- 637
  • USC -- 626
  • Clemson -- 536
  • Notre Dame -- 445
  • Mississippi -- 424
  • Arizona State -- 357
  • Kansas State -- 242
  • Texas A&M -- 238
  • Nebraska -- 226
  • North Carolina -- 194
  • Missouri -- 134
  • Washington -- 130
  • Teams who did not make the cut but received votes were as follows:

    26. UCF -- 94
    27. Florida -- 87
    28. Texas -- 86
    29. Duke -- 71
    30. Iowa -- 68
    31. Louisville -- 48
    32. Marshall -- 41
    33. Oklahoma State -- 37
    34. Virginia Tech -- 26
    35. TCU -- 23
    36. Mississippi State -- 22
    37. Michigan -- 19
    37. Texas Tech --19
    39. Miami (FL) -- 16
    40. Cincinnati -- 15
    41. Boise State -- 10
    41. Oregon State -- 10
    43. Northwestern -- 8
    43. BYU -- 8
    45. Penn State -- 5
    46. Vanderbilt -- 2
    46. Navy -- 2
    48. Nevada -- 1
    48. UL Lafayette -- 1
    48. Utah State -- 1