| 1 | Unanimous choice: Ohio State is No. |
| 2 | Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No. |
| 3 | 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. |
| 4 | The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday. |
| 5 | TCU is No. |
| 6 | 2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State. |
| 7 | The Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and are trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936. |
| 8 | Preseason rankings date back to 1950. |
| 9 | Since then no team had received more than 97 percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll. |
| 10 | In 2013, Alabama, which had won two straight championships, received 58 of 60 first-place votes and defending champion Florida did the same in 2009. |
| 11 | Neither finished the season No. |
| 12 | The rest of this year's preseason top 10 is Auburn, Oregon, Southern California, Georgia and Florida State. |
| 13 | 2 - The last two times the Buckeyes opened the season at No. |
| 14 | 1 (1998 and 2006), they finished No. |
| 15 | 6 - Pac 12 has six teams ranked in the preseason poll for the second straight year. |
| 16 | 8 - It is the eighth time Ohio State is ranked No. |
| 17 | 1 in preseason. |
| 18 | Only Oklahoma has been rated the top preseason team more times, with 10. |
| 19 | 8 - SEC has eight teams ranked for the third time, the most by any conference. |
| 20 | SEC set the record in 2011 and had eight teams ranked last year. |
| 21 | 10 - Ten times the preseason No. |
| 22 | 1 has gone on to win the national title. |
| 23 | Only twice, Florida State in 1999 and Southern California in 2004, has the top-ranked team in the preseason poll gone wire-to-wire as No. |
| 24 | 27 - Ohio State has appeared in the preseason poll for 27 consecutive years, the longest current streak and the fourth longest all-time. |
| 25 | Oklahoma has the second longest current streak at 16 years. |
| 26 | You might have heard that TCU and Baylor shared the Big 12 championship last year. |
| 27 | It was sort of a big deal. |
| 28 | Well, the second-ranked Horned Frogs and No. |
| 29 | 4 Bears are close again and both have their best preseason rankings. |
| 30 | - TCU's previous best preseason ranking was No. |
| 31 | 6 in 2010. |
| 32 | - Baylor's previous best was No. |
| 33 | 7 in 1957. |
| 34 | No. |
| 35 | 3 Alabama is preseason top-five for the seventh consecutive season. |
| 36 | It is the third longest streak of preseason top-five rankings in the history of the poll. |
| 37 | Florida State did it 11 straight times from 1990-2000 and Oklahoma had eight straight preseason top-five rankings from 1974-81. |
| 38 | SPARTY, YES! |
| 39 | 5 Michigan State has its best preseason ranking since 1967 when it started No. |
| 40 | 22 Arizona is ranked in the preseason for the first time since 1999. |
| 41 | The Wildcats and rival Arizona State, ranked 15th, are both preseason ranked for just the fifth time (1974, '89, '98 and .99). |