{"id":261639,"date":"2025-08-04T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261639\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:59:12","slug":"college-football-coaches-poll-texas-claims-no-1-spot-over-ohio-state-in-preseason-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261639\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Coaches Poll: Texas claims No. 1 spot over Ohio State in preseason Top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the 2025 college football season is less than three weeks away, and on Monday, the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:USA Today Coaches Poll;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">USA Today Coaches Poll<\/a> was released featuring <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/college-football\/article\/2025-heisman-trophy-odds-four-value-bets-including-texas-arch-manning-145046002.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arch Manning;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Manning<\/a> and Texas at No. 1 and Ohio State, the reigning national champions, at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns received 28 out of a possible 67 first-place votes, compared to the 20 given to the Buckeyes and 14 for Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Texas has landed the No. 1 ranking in the preseason AFCA Coaches Poll. The Longhorns and Buckeyes will meet in an Aug. 30 matchup at Ohio Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has not won a national title since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>1. Texas (13-3) &#8211; 28 1st place votes<br \/>2. Ohio State (14-2) &#8211; 20 1st place votes<br \/>3. Penn State (13-3) &#8211; 14 1st place votes<br \/>4. Georgia (11-3) &#8211; 3 1st place votes<br \/>5. Notre Dame (14-2)<br \/>6. Clemson (10-4) &#8211; 2 1st place votes<br \/>7. Oregon (13-1)<br \/>8. Alabama (9-4)<br \/>9. LSU (9-4)<br \/>10. Miami (Fla.) (10-3)<br \/>11. Arizona State (11-3)<br \/>12. Illinois (10-3)<br \/>13. South Carolina (9-4)<br \/>14. Michigan (8-5)<br \/>15. Mississippi (10-3)<br \/>16. SMU (11-3)<br \/>17. Florida (8-5)<br \/>18. Tennessee (10-3)<br \/>19. Indiana (11-2)<br \/>20. Kansas State (9-4)<br \/>21. Iowa State (11-3)<br \/>22. Texas A&amp;M (8-5)<br \/>23. BYU (11-20<br \/>24. Texas Tech (8-5)<br \/>25. Boise State (12-2)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Others receiving votes: Oklahoma (221); Missouri (142); Louisville (126); USC (116); Utah (86); Baylor (76); Auburn (50); Iowa (49); Memphis (34); Army (33); Tulane (31); Georgia Tech (27); TCU (24); Nebraska (19); Syracuse (16); Washington (15); Navy (14); Arkansas (14); Duke (12); Colorado (12); Minnesota (11); UNLV (8); Florida State (8); Kansas (6); Vanderbilt (3); Buffalo (1)<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 10 seasons, only Alabama in 2017 has gone on to win a national title after being ranked on top in the preseason poll. Two previous preseason No. 1 ranked teams \u2014 2022 Alabama and 2023 Georgia \u2014 ended up failing to make the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/college-football\/topic\/playoffs-bowl-games\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:College Football Playoff;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football Playoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the 2025 college football season is less than three weeks away, and on Monday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[615,946,7,3023,6691,3471,1057,2149,1446,948,51,2299,29113],"class_list":{"0":"post-261639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arch-manning","9":"tag-boise-state","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-georgia-tech","12":"tag-iowa-state","13":"tag-kansas-state","14":"tag-longhorns","15":"tag-ohio-stadium","16":"tag-ohio-state","17":"tag-penn-state","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-tech","20":"tag-usa-today-coaches-poll"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114971801421276941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}