The 2024 faculty soccer season is true across the nook, and with that comes the second main preseason rating through the Related Press High 25. Georgia, which additionally got here in at No. 1 within the Coaches Ballot, accomplished its top-of-the-podium sweep by garnering 46 of 62 first-place votes from the AP.
Ohio State obtained some consideration for the highest spot with 15 first-place votes of its personal. These two groups are heavy favorites to battle it out for the nationwide championship, however they’re additionally emblematic of a development mirrored by each preseason polls: two-conference dominance.
The Huge Ten and the SEC mixed to put eight of the highest 10 groups within the AP ballot, together with all top-five spots. Alabama, a kind of top-five applications, ranked exterior of the highest 4 for the primary time since 2009.
Take coronary heart, Crimson Tide followers. The final time Alabama positioned that low within the preseason AP High 25, it went on to submit its first undefeated season and win its first nationwide championship within the Nick Saban period. Possibly Kalen DeBoer, Saban’s substitute, could make an analogous run.
Here is the total AP High 25, together with the groups that simply missed out however nonetheless obtained votes (first-place votes in parentheses).
Preseason AP High 25
- Georgia (46)
- Ohio State (15)
- Oregon (1)
- Texas
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Penn State
- Michigan
- Florida State
- Missouri
- Utah
- LSU
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Kansas State
- Miami (FL)
- Texas A&M
- Arizona
- Kansas
- USC
- NC State
- Iowa
Others receiving votes: Louisville (111); Virginia Tech (77); Boise State (47); SMU (33); Iowa State (33); Liberty (32); Washington (23); West Virginia (17); Memphis (16); Nebraska (16); Wisconsin (15); UTSA (6); Tulane (5); Appalachian State (4); Kentucky (3); Auburn (2); Colorado (1)
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