When the initial Associated Press preseason poll came out last week, many people were left scratching their heads. Not because defending champion LSU came in at No. 6, but because teams from the Big Ten and Pac-12 were included, despite having their seasons postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As it turns out, the votes for the poll were cast long before the conferences made the decision not to play this fall, so there was no good way to re-rank the poll. Now that we know who will—and won't—be playing football this fall, we're re-ranking ahead of the new AP poll dropping.