The college football season is around the corner. For the first time, Texas will begin the college football season ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Longhorns edged Penn State by just five points. This is the closest preseason vote since 1998. The Longhorns face a major test right away. Their Aug. 30 opener at defending champion and third-ranked Ohio State is a rematch of last season’s College Football Playoff semifinal, a 28-14 Buckeyes win in the Cotton Bowl. The game was highly anticipated and one that the Buckeyes were my favorite to win. The Buckeyes received 11 first-place votes from the panel of 65 media members who cover college football. No. 4 Clemson got four first-place votes and No. 5 Georgia got one. Notre Dame, Oregon (which got the final first-place vote), Alabama, LSU and Miami round out the top 10.

The SEC leads all conferences with 10 teams in the preseason Top 25, most ever by a conference and one more than a year ago. The SEC has four teams in the top 10 for the second straight year. The Big Ten, which has won the past two national championships, has two of the top three teams in the poll for the third straight year and six in the Top 25 for the third year in a row. Four Big 12 teams are ranked; with defending conference champion Arizona State the highest at No. 11. The Atlantic Coast Conference has three, led by Clemson. The college football season begins next weekend with the 22^nd ranked Iowa State traveling to battle 17^th ranked Kansas State Wildcats. The following weekend will highlight a series of high-level match ups. Below are the big match ups for the final weekend of August.

August 30^th Big Games

• #1 Texas @ #3 Ohio State
• #9 LSU @ #4 Clemson
• #8 Alabama @ Florida State
• Syracuse @ #24 Tennessee
• Utah @ UCLA

Sunday, August 31^st

• #6 Notre Dame @ #10 Miami

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