The Associated Press released its preseason Top 25 college football poll and, to no one’s surprise, Alabama topped the list at #1.

The Crimson Tide received 42 of 61 first-place votes. Clemson (#18) landed 18 first-place votes and Wisconsin (#4) netted one vote.

Other SEC teams in the Top 25 include Georgia (#3), Auburn (#9), Mississippi State (#18) and LSU (#25).

Tennessee will play all three of the top-ranked teams in the nation this season, hosting Alabama at Neyland Stadium and going on the road to face Georgia and Auburn.

The Vols open their schedule on September 1 against West Virginia (#17) in Charlotte, N.C. 

The preseason AP poll started in 1950 and since then only Oklahoma from 1985-87 had started No. 1 in three straight years until now. Here is the top 25:

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Georgia
4. Wisconsin
5. Ohio State
6. Washington
7. Oklahoma
8. Miami
9. Auburn
10. Penn State
11. Michigan State
12. Notre Dame
13. Stanford
14. Michigan
15. USC
16. TCU
17. West Virginia
18. Mississippi State
19. Florida State
20. Virginia Tech
21. UCF
22. Boise State
23. Texas
24. Oregon
25. LSU