The Big 12 missed out on the College Football Playoff last season as the only Power Five conference that wasn’t represented in the four-team tournament.
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Florida comes in unranked in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll for the 2015 season, snagging just two votes from the dozens of SIDs coaches who vote in the theoretically meaningless prestigious poll.
The Seminoles, winners of 29 of their last 30 games, will hold their first fall camp practice on August. 6 with the season opener against Texas State inside Doak Campbell Stadium on September 5 at 8 p.m. on ESPNews.
USA TODAY Sports breaks down the preseason edition of the Amway Coaches Poll, which features the defending champion Buckeyes at No. 1.
Ohio State is the runaway preseason No. 1, having received 62 of 64 first-place votes.
►Perhaps the surprise member of the SEC in the poll is No. 25 Tennessee, which edged Mississippi State by a scant two poll points for its first ranking since the 2008 preseason balloting. TCU and Alabama came in second and third, respectively, and each team grabbed one of the remaining two first-place votes.
Baylor and Oregon round out the preseason top five.
Notre Dame will also host No. 17 Georgia Tech on September 19 and travel to play No. 21 Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., on November 28.
Other Big 12 teams receiving votes include Oklahoma State at No. 28, Kansas State 31st, UT 38th and West Virginia tied for 45th. Oklahoma checks in at No. 19.
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How did the Big Ten fare overall?
