Huskies First CFP Playoff Team To Draw AP Poll Snub
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The Associated Press preseason Top 25 college football poll was released on Monday and Jedd Fisch might want to have another T-shirt made documenting this moment, if not offering a little program outrage.
The Huskies weren't included, experiencing an unprecedented from grace from the college football penthouse.
The AP determined the UW, which returns just two starters from its 14-1 entry in 2023, is the first team to reach the College Football Playoff and turn up unranked the following season, and the first team to be unranked after finishing the previous season No. 2 in the ranking since Army in 1951.
According to the ballots submitted, the Huskies are considered the nation's 32nd best team -- better than West Virginia, Memphis, Nebraska, Wisconsin, UTSA, Tulane, Appalachian State, Kentucky, Auburn and Colorado, the other also-ran voting recipients.
Otherwise, the AP polls was its usual who's who of national powerhouses, with Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon finishing 1-2-3 and collecting all of the first-place votes. The Bulldogs drew 46, the Buckeyes 15 and the Ducks just one.
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— CBS Sports College Football 🏈 (@CBSSportsCFB) August 12, 2024
The Preseason AP Poll is here! @GeorgiaFootball takes the No. 1 spot. Who should be higher? pic.twitter.com/bYz4tOgzCE
The Huskies will face five of these Top 25 teams in Oregon (3), Penn State (8), Michigan (9), USC (23) and Iowa (25).
If there's a redeeming value in the balloting, the AP poll is a bigger believer in the UW than FOX college football analyst RJ Young, who somehow decided the Huskies were no more accomplished than the nation's 83rd best team.
And to think Jedd Fisch was miffed when the Huskies didn't make the Top 50 of another more obscure preseasopoll.
Did @RJ_Young really rank all 134 FBS teams ahead of the season? Yes, yes he did 🙌📝
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) August 12, 2024
What do you think of his rankings? 🤔📊
Read his whole breakdown here: https://t.co/2t14PJRURH pic.twitter.com/eHzHBUMIoO
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