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Things aren’t looking too good for Florida State.

In the last 10 years, no team that has been ranked No. 1 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll has won the national championship. Southern California would have been an exception in 2004, but that title has since been vacated as a consequence for NCAA violations.

USC came close again in 2005, starting the season as a preseason No. 1 in this poll, but Texas beat the Trojans in the national championship that year. Ohio State came close too. The Buckeyes were No. 1 in 2006, but lost to Florida in the title game.

If any team is happy to not be at the top, it’s No. 2 Alabama. The Crimson Tide have won the national championship three times in the last five years and not one of those years did they begin at the top of the poll.

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2009: Alabama was No. 5

2011: Alabama was No. 2

2012: Alabama was No. 2

The coaches voted Alabama preseason No. 1 in 2010 and the Tide went 10-3, and again in ’13 and the Tide went 11-2. So Nick Saban is probably pleased with this preseason poll.

If Jimbo Fisher is a fan of statistical poll history, he probably isn’t.