2023 Preseason AP Poll Top 25: Every SEC team’s highest, lowest spot on ballot

The 2023 preseason AP Poll was released on Monday with six SEC teams included in the top 25 (with three in the top five). Not just were the six SEC schools included in the top 25, but six others also received votes on at least one person’s ballot (meaning that 12 of the conference’s 14 teams were included in at least one person’s ballot). The AP Poll consists of top 25 ballots from over 60 media professionals around the country. Point totals are given based on where a team is ranked in a specific poll (1st receives the most points, 2nd gets the 2nd most, so on and so forth). The AP Poll is then put together as the 25 teams with the most points ranked.

This article is meant to show you what each school’s highest and lowest spot on someone’s ballot was. This is usually something I love to look at when the ballots are released (“let me see who has X team really high and/or really low”). So, I looked through the grid of all the polls from the AP Voters, and here are each SEC team’s highest and lowest spots on the AP Poll ballots.

2023 Preseason AP Poll Top 25: Every SEC team’s highest and lowest spot on ballot

Georgia

Actual Ranking: 1st

Highest Spot: 1st (60 out of 63 1st place votes)

Lowest Spot: 2nd

Alabama

Actual Ranking: 4th

Highest Spot: 2nd

Lowest Spot: 7th

LSU

Actual Ranking: 5th

Highest Spot: 2nd

Lowest Spot: 11th

Tennessee

Actual Ranking: 12th

Highest Spot: 7th

Lowest Spot: 17th

Ole Miss

Actual Ranking: 22nd

Highest Spot: 15th

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Texas A&M

Actual Ranking: 23rd

Highest Spot: 13th

Lowest Spot: Unranked

South Carolina

Actual Ranking: Unranked (2nd most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 19th

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Arkansas

Actual Ranking: Unranked (5th most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 17th

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Kentucky

Actual Ranking: Unranked (8th most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 22nd

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Auburn

Actual Ranking: Unranked (11th most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 21st

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Florida

Actual Ranking: Unranked (T-13th most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 23rd

Lowest Spot: Unranked

Mississippi State

Actual Ranking: Unranked (T-13th most points of all unranked teams)

Highest Spot: 22nd

Lowest Spot: Unranked

The Schools who did not receive any votes

Missouri

Vanderbilt

This will be a story I do every week as the new AP Poll comes out, so make sure to check back in throughout the season to see where your team was ranked the highest and lowest in the AP Poll ballots.