COLUMBUS — in a way, the 2016 season will pick up where 2015 left off: Alabama is No. 1, and Clemson is No. 2.The Buckeyes are 6th with Michigan 7th. Michigan State now a perennial top 15 team at no. 12 and Iowa 17th. The defending national champion Crimson Tide are the No. 1 team in the Associated Press preseason Top 25 for the fifth time in history and third time under coach Nick Saban. The Tide received 33 of 61 first-place votes from the media panel and 1,469 points in the poll released Sunday. Clemson, which lost a thrilling College Football Playoff championship game to Alabama in January, received 16 first-place votes and 1,443 points. This is the first time since 1992 that the teams that ended the previous season at Nos. 1 and 2 in the AP poll began the next season in the same spots. Miami and Washington did it that season. Also receiving top votes were No. 3 Oklahoma (four), No. 4 Florida State (five), No. 5 LSU (one), No. 6 Ohio State (one) and No. 7 Michigan (one). A year after the Buckeyes became the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in the history of the…
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