Alabama gets lowest AP college football ranking since 2009

Alabama is ranked number 3 and Auburn number 6 in the Associated Press college football poll. The defending national champion Ohio Buckeyes took the top slot by receiving all sixty one first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday. The TCU Horned Frogs are ranked number two, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State. The Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and are trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936. Alabama won back to back BCS titles in 2012 and 2013. Alabama fans are already grumbling that this is the team’s lowest ranking since 2009. Preseason rankings date back to 1950. Since then no team had received more than ninety seven percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll. The rest of this year's preseason top 10 is Auburn, Oregon, Southern California, Georgia and Florida State.