{"id":177958,"date":"2019-08-19T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177958"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:01:37","slug":"ap-preseason-top-25-football-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177958","title":{"rendered":"AP Preseason Top 25 Football Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 Cross off another milestone for Clemson, college football&#8217;s newest superpower. For the first time, the defending national champion Tigers are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 presented by Regions Bank .<\/p>\n<p>Clemson won its second national title in three seasons behind freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence to claim equal standing with Alabama at the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide, coming off a 44-16 loss to Clemson in the College Football Playoff championship, is No. 2. Clemson received 52 first-place votes and Alabama received the other 10. Clemson snaps a record-tying string of three straight years in which Alabama was the preseason No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, Alabama&#8217;s Southeastern Conference rival, is No. 3, followed by No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 5 Ohio State.A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 Cross off another milestone for Clemson, college football&#8217;s newest superpower. For the first time, the defending national champion Tigers are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 presented by Regions Bank . Clemson won its second national title in three seasons behind freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177993,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177958\/revisions\/177993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}