Composite college football top 25 rankings for 2024: Georgia, Ohio State, Texas are consensus top teams | Sporting News

Composite college football top 25 rankings for 2024: Georgia, Ohio State, Texas are consensus top teams | Sporting News

June 6, 2024

College football’s list season is here ahead of a landmark college football season. 

It’s the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Massive realignment has changed conferences. Yet the time-honored tradition of preseason top 25 lists remains unchanged. 

Sporting News released its Preseason Top 25 on Wednesday. Our next move is to look around at other preseason publications to find a consensus Top 25. We achieved that by looking at seven more recent top 25 lists. That includes 247Sports.com, The Athletic, Athlon, CBS Sports, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and USA Today. We will update this as more preseason rankings come out this summer. It is a better indicator of what the preseason AP Top 25 might look like in August. 

Georgia is a unanimous No. 1 across those sites. The Bulldogs are looking for a third national championship in four seasons under Kirby Smart.

Ohio State received seven second-place across those eight sites. The Buckeyes had a monumental offseason under coach Ryan Day in the transfer portal, and will be heavily favored to win the new 18-team Big Ten. 

Texas – which made its first College Football Playoff appearance last season – is No. 3 The Longhorns have improved under fourth-year coach Steve Sarkisian and are now making the move to the SEC. Oregon and Ole Miss rounded out the top five. 

What Michigan, Alabama and Washington, the CFP teams from last season that had coaching changes? The Crimson Tide are No. 6, the Wolverines are No. 9, and the Huskies, well, that is one of the surprises of this list. 

We used an inverse scoring method (awarding 25 points to a No. 1 selection, 24 for a No. 2 selection, all the way down to one point for a No. 25 selection) to determine the score for each school.

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Composite top 25 preseason college football rankings

A look at a composite Preseason Top 25 college football ranking across 11 major websites. Here is each school with the total points scored and their high and low ranking: 

RANK TEAM POINTS HIGH LOW
1 Georgia 200 1 1
2 Ohio State 191 2 3
3 Texas 183 2 4
4 Oregon 177 3 5
5 Ole Miss 161 5 6
6 Alabama 160 4 9
7 Notre Dame 150 5 10
8 Missouri 137 7 12
9 Michigan 132 7 12
10 Penn State 115 8 17
11 Florida State 112 7 20
12 Utah 106 8 18
13 LSU 95 10 NR
14 Tennessee 93 12 17
15 Clemson 87 10 22
16 Oklahoma 84 8 19
17 Arizona 55 11 NR
18(t) Oklahoma State 56 11 25
18(t) Kansas State 56 15 NR
20 NC State 47 12 24
21 Kansas 42 17 23
22 Miami 21 14 NR
23 USC 20 21 NR
24 Louisville 18 18 NR
25 Texas A&M 13 19 NR

Others receiving votes: Washington 13, Virginia Tech 11, Iowa 7, SMU 4, West Virginia 4, Boise State 2, Memphis 1

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Composite Top 25 rankings by site

A look at those Preseason College Football Top 25 rankings shook out by the following sites: Sporting News, 247Sports.com, The Athletic, Athlon, CBS Sports, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and USA Today. 

SCHOOL SN 24/7 T-ATH ATHLON CBS ESPN SI USA
Georgia 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Ohio State 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
Texas 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 2
Oregon 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 4
Notre Dame 5 10 7 10 8 5 6 7
Ole Miss 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6
Florida State 7 11 10 12 20 11 10 15
Michigan 8 7 9 7 12 10 12 11
Alabama 9 5 4 5 5 7 8 5
LSU 10 13 NR 11 10 14 16 13
Missouri 11 8 12 9 7 8 7 9
Penn State 12 9 17 8 9 13 9 16
Tennessee 13 12 16 13 16 15 13 17
Clemson 14 16 22 14 14 16 15 10
Utah 15 18 8 15 11 9 14 12
Kansas State 16 NR 15 17 19 17 21 21
Arizona 17 NR 13 20 15 20 11 20
Oklahoma 18 15 19 16 13 18 17 8
Oklahoma State 19 23 11 18 25 19 19 18
Louisville 20 25 18 25 NR NR 22 NR
USC 21 21 NR 23 NR 25 23 22
Washington 22 NR NR NR 18 NR 25 NR
Kansas 23 17 20 21 21 22 18 19
NC State 24 20 21 24 24 12 20 14
Texas A&M 25 19 23 22 23 NR NR NR
Miami NR 14 14 19 17 24 NR NR
SMU NR NR NR NR 22 NR NR NR
Iowa NR NR 24 NR NR 23 NR 24
Virginia Tech NR 24 25 NR NR 21 NR 23
West Virginia NR 22 NR NR NR NR NR NR
Memphis NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 25
Boise State NR NR NR NR NR NR 24 NR