Preseason AP Poll Out

The Associated Press debuted its preseason poll for the 2009 season today. Now, I cannot understand how you can rank outside maybe the Top Five before any team has even played a game, but at least it gives us something to talk about. 

Its not a surprise to me that Florida was pegged as the No. 1 team, but it may serve as a shock that they were voted there by the largest margin in history. Praise be to Tebow.  The entire 25 shapes out like this:

Rank	Team	Points	Previous
1.	Florida (58)	1498	1
2.	Texas (2)	1424	4
3.	Oklahoma	1370	5
4.	USC	1313	3
5.	Alabama	1156	6
6.	Ohio State	1113	9
7.	Virginia Tech	1054	15
8.	Mississippi	1047	14
9.	Oklahoma State	989	16
10.	Penn State	989	8
11.	LSU	914	NR
12.	California	746	NR
13.	Georgia	714	13
14.	Boise State	659	11
15.	Georgia Tech	593	22
16.	Oregon	587	10
17.	TCU	521	7
18.	Florida State	307	21
19.	Utah	289	2
20.	BYU	267	25
21.	North Carolina	261	NR
22.	Iowa	229	20
23.	Notre Dame	225	NR
24.	Nebraska	207	NR
25.	Kansas	134	NR

*Penn State and Oklahoma State are actually tied for ninth, but for listing purposes I’ve put them in alphabetical order.

Color me intrigued: Both at the fact that Ole Miss was ranked as high as eigth, and that Notre Dame was even ranked at all. I’m sorry, but a team that lost at home to Syracuse a few short months ago should not have any business cracking the Top 25. Besides, Ohio State, Penn State, and Iowa are the only Big Ten teams making an appearance in the rankings. Hopefully this will change by the end of the year and we can see as many as four or five teams dispersed throughout the rankings.