The first PFF top 25 poll is out, and it arrives not long after the Coaches Poll and the official preseason AP Poll. It has some incredibly shocking changes, though.

Mizzou Snubbed in AP Top 25 College Football Preseason Rankings originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Eli Drinkwitz and the Missouri Tigers football program enter this fall on the heels of back-to-back 10-plus win seasons. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to convince voters they belong among the top teams in the nation.

When the final AP Poll comes out at the end of the season, the Texas football team will be still be ranked No. 1 in the country. The Longhorns will lift the national championship trophy at the end of the year.

The Associated Press Top 25 poll is out. Let the sorting out process begin. Only two first-place votes and five points separate No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Penn State.

In closest preseason vote since 1998, Texas edges out Penn State to claim top spot in AP 25 college football poll. Here are the complete rankings.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/virginia as What's The Earliest UVA Football Could Return to Becoming an AP Top 25 Team? .

Notre Dame football opens 2025 as the No. 6 ranked team in the land. But here's four reasons why the Irish won't stay at that spot.

At the AP, my job was to administer the poll, so I knew that as a first-time voter I'd be undertaking a challenge with no perfect answer.