COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Buckeyes are ranked in the top 10 in the first major preseason college football poll.
Ohio State – which finished the 2013-14 season with a 12-2 record — was No. 6 in the Amway coaches’ poll, the highest-ranked Big Ten team.
The Southeastern Conference had five of the top 13 teams in the poll, with No. 12 Georgia and No. 13 LSU joining Alabama, Auburn and South Carolina.
Defending national champion Florida State is ranked No. 1, receiving 1,543 overall points and 56 of a possible 62 first-place votes in the poll, which was released Thursday.
Alabama was second, followed by Oklahoma, Oregon and Auburn.
The first-ever playoff in college football is looming at the end season and only the top four teams will make it.
Ohio State was sixth, with one first-place vote, UCLA seventh, Michigan State eighth, South Carolina ninth and Baylor 10th.