K-State football is No. 20 in first AP poll; Florida State No. 1
Kansas State will begin the 2014 college football season as a ranked team. The Wildcats are No. 20 in the first Associated Press poll released Sunday afternoon.
Oklahoma is No. 4, while other defending Big 12 champion Baylor is No. 10.
Jameis Winston and defending national champion Florida State are No. 1 in The AP preseason college football poll.
The Seminoles will start the season No. 1 for the sixth time – the first since 1999 when they became the first team to hold the top spot for the entire season.
Florida State received 57 of 60 first-place votes Sunday from the media panel. No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Oregon and No. 4 Oklahoma each received one first-place vote. Ohio State is No. 5 and Auburn is No. 6.
Winston, the Heisman Trophy winner last season as a redshirt freshman, led Florida State to a 34-31 victory against Auburn in the last BCS national championship game. This season the Bowl Championship Series is being replaced by the College Football Playoff. A selection committee will pick the top four teams in the country for two national semifinals.
K-State, which won the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl at the end of last season, is No. 21 in the coaches poll that was released last month.
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press preseason college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2013 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and 2013 final ranking:
Record | Pts | Pv | |
1. Florida St. (57) | 14-0 | 1,496 | 1 |
2. Alabama (1) | 11-2 | 1,361 | 7 |
3. Oregon (1) | 11-2 | 1,334 | 9 |
4. Oklahoma (1) | 11-2 | 1,324 | 6 |
5. Ohio St. | 12-2 | 1,207 | 12 |
6. Auburn | 12-2 | 1,198 | 2 |
7. UCLA | 10-3 | 1,106 | 16 |
8. Michigan St. | 13-1 | 1,080 | 3 |
9. South Carolina | 11-2 | 1,015 | 4 |
10. Baylor | 11-2 | 966 | 13 |
11. Stanford | 11-3 | 885 | 11 |
12. Georgia | 8-5 | 843 | NR |
13. LSU | 10-3 | 776 | 14 |
14. Wisconsin | 9-4 | 637 | 22 |
15. Southern Cal | 10-4 | 626 | 19 |
16. Clemson | 11-2 | 536 | 8 |
17. Notre Dame | 9-4 | 445 | 21 |
18. Mississippi | 8-5 | 424 | NR |
19. Arizona St. | 10-4 | 357 | 20 |
20. Kansas St. | 8-5 | 242 | NR |
21. Texas A&M | 9-4 | 238 | 18 |
22. Nebraska | 9-4 | 226 | NR |
23. North Carolina | 7-6 | 194 | NR |
24. Missouri | 12-2 | 134 | 5 |
25. Washington | 9-4 | 130 | 25 |
Others receiving votes: UCF 94, Florida 87, Texas 86, Duke 71, Iowa 68, Louisville 48, Marshall 41, Oklahoma St. 37, Virginia Tech 26, TCU 23, Mississippi St. 22, Michigan 19, Texas Tech 19, Miami 16, Cincinnati 15, Boise St. 10, Oregon St. 10, BYU 8, Northwestern 8, Penn St. 5, Navy 2, Vanderbilt 2, Louisiana 1, Nevada 1, Utah St. 1.
This story was originally published August 17, 2014 at 1:20 PM with the headline "K-State football is No. 20 in first AP poll; Florida State No. 1."