Of the 25 teams ranked in the 2024 AP preseason poll, just 12 made the final College Football Playoff Rankings. It was an astounding amount of poll attrition, as teams like Indiana (No. 8), Boise State (No. 9), SMU (No. 10) and Arizona State (No. 12) burst onto the scene to usurp some of the programs that were expected to be good.
Will 13 teams from this year’s AP poll finish the season unranked? Time will tell, but a handful will certainly fall. Last year’s most stunning example was Florida State, which was No. 10 in the preseason poll and coming off a 13-1 season. By the beginning of Week 2, the Seminoles were all the way out of the poll following an 0-2 start that included a Week 0 loss to Georgia Tech.
Other prominent fallers last season included Utah — which started at No. 13 before going 5-7 — and Oklahoma State — which started at No. 18 before finishing 3-9. Additionally, every team between No. 20-25 in the preseason AP poll finished outside the final CFP Rankings. If that trend continues, it would be bad news for 2024 CFP teams like No. 20 Indiana, No. 24 Tennessee and No. 25 Boise State.
With Week 0 of the 2025 season here, our writers are making their picks for which teams will go from ranked in the preseason to unranked in the end.
South Carolina’s defense will be tested in 2025 following its best season in years. While the unit is anchored by star EDGE Dylan Stewart and defensive back Jalen Kilgore, the rest of the group has something to prove. Against a schedule…
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Author : David Cobb
Publish date : 2025-08-21 16:04:00
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