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The Huskies are the first CFP playoff team not to appear in the AP poll
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The Huskies are the first CFP playoff team not to appear in the AP poll

The Associated Press preseason poll of the Top 25 teams in college football was released on Monday, and Jedd Fisch might want to commission another jersey that documents this moment, or even offers a little outrage about the program.

The Huskies were not included and experienced an unprecedented loss of grace from the bottom of college football.

AP determined that UW, which returns just two starters from its 14-1 entry in 2023, is the first team to make the College Football Playoff and appear unranked the following season, and the first team to be unranked after finishing the previous season ranked No. 2 in the rankings since Army in 1951.

According to the ballots submitted, the Huskies are considered the 32nd best team in the country, ahead of West Virginia, Memphis, Nebraska, Wisconsin, UTSA, Tulane, Appalachian State, Kentucky, Auburn and Colorado, the other vote-getters who also competed.

Otherwise, the AP polls showed their usual who’s who among national powers, with Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon finishing 1-2-3 and getting all the first-place votes. The Bulldogs got 46, the Buckeyes 15 and the Ducks just one.

The Huskies will face five of those Top 25 teams in Oregon (3), Penn State (8), Michigan (9), USC (23) and Iowa (25).

If there’s any redeeming value in the vote, the AP poll has more faith in UW than FOX college football analyst RJ Young, who somehow decided the Huskies had no more accomplishments than the 83rd-best team in the country.

And to think, Jedd Fisch was upset when the Huskies didn’t crack the Top 50 of another pre-season poll that was darkest.

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