Huskies First CFP Playoff Team To Draw AP Poll Snub

Jedd Fisch's rebuilding team can't convince voters it deserves better.

The Associated Press preseason Top 25 college football poll was released on Monday and Jedd Fisch might want to have another T-shirt made documenting this moment, if not offering a little program outrage.

The AP determined the UW, which returns just two starters from its 14-1 entry in 2023, is the first team to reach the College Football Playoff and turn up unranked the following season, and the first team to be unranked after finishing the previous season No. 2 in the ranking since Army in 1951. Otherwise, the AP polls was its usual who's who of national powerhouses, with Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon finishing 1-2-3 and collecting all of the first-place votes. The Bulldogs drew 46, the Buckeyes 15 and the Ducks just one.The Huskies will face five of these Top 25 teams in Oregon , Penn State , Michigan , USC and Iowa .

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