{"id":127532,"date":"2017-08-22T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127532"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:30:18","slug":"tide-no-1-in-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127532","title":{"rendered":"Tide No. 1 in preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-107202\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UNDATED (AP) Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the second straight season and third time in five years.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide, coming off a last-second loss in the national championship game that left it No. 2 to Clemson in the final Top 25 of 2016, received 52 from a panel of 61 media members.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State was No. 2, edging out No. 3 Florida State and preventing the first 1 vs 2 opening game since the AP preseason poll began in 1950. Alabama opens the season against the Seminoles in Atlanta on Sept. 2, just the fourth opener involving top-five teams and the first pitting teams ranked in the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Southern California starts the season at No. 4. Defending national champion Clemson begins the post-Deshaun Watson era at No. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the second straight season and third time in five years. The Crimson Tide, coming off a last-second loss in the national championship game that left it No. 2 to Clemson in the final Top 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127533,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532\/revisions\/127533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}