Tide 2nd, Dogs 22nd in preseason poll

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By David Paschall August 4, 2011 1 min read

Oklahoma will begin the 2011 college football season ranked No. 1 in the USA Today coaches’ poll.

The poll was released this morning and contains eight Southeastern Conference teams in the top 25. Alabama is No. 2 in the preseason balloting, followed by Oregon at No. 3, LSU at No. 4 and Florida State at No. 5.

Also representing the SEC are South Carolina at No. 12, Arkansas at No. 14, defending BCS champion Auburn at No. 19, Mississippi State at No. 20, Georgia at 22 and Florida at No. 23.

For more information, read Friday’s Times Free Press.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.