The Associated Press released its 74th preseason college football poll on Monday. The SEC has six teams ranked among the nation’s preseason top 25. The SEC teams in the 2023 preseason poll are Georgia at No. 1, Alabama at No. 4, LSU at No. 5, Tennessee at No. 12, Ole Miss at No. 22 and Texas A&M at No. 23. SEC Football by the Numbers looks at this year’s preseason poll:

0 First-place votes were received by Alabama in the AP preseason poll for the first time since 2015. In that year, Ohio State received all 61 first-place votes, but in the final poll of 2015, Alabama received all 61 first-place votes. This year, No. 1 Georgia received 60 first-place votes, No. 2 Michigan got two and No. 3 Ohio State got one. The three voters who did not have Georgia at No. 1 placed the Bulldogs at No. 2.

2 Appearances at No. 1 in the AP preseason poll for Georgia, with this year’s Bulldogs joining the 2008 team. Georgia finished 13th in the final poll for the 2008 season. Eighteen of the 74 preseason polls have been topped by an SEC member. Three of those teams were No. 1 in the final poll, too – Tennessee in 1951 and Alabama in 1978 and 2017. Alabama has been No. 1 in the preseason poll seven other times, Florida has been there three times and Auburn, LSU and Ole Miss (like Tennessee) have done so once apiece.

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2 Ballots included Auburn in the top 25 as the Tigers got a vote at No. 21 and another at No. 24 from the 63 voters. Among the other SEC teams that did not make the top 25 but received votes, South Carolina appeared on 22 ballots (with a high of 19th), Arkansas on five (with a high of 17th), Kentucky on five (with a high of 22nd), Florida on two (with a high of 23rd) and Mississippi State on one (at 22nd).

2 SEC teams did not receive any votes in the balloting for the 2023 AP preseason poll – Missouri and Vanderbilt. The Tigers and Commodores also were the only SEC programs that did not appear on any of the preseason ballots last year. Twelve of the previous 63 seasons in which Missouri was not included in the preseason poll did include the Tigers in the final poll. Vanderbilt has never appeared in a preseason poll and has finished ranked in the final poll three times.

4 Second-place votes and one seventh-place vote in the AP preseason poll for Alabama, which placed No. 4. In between Alabama also had 25 third-place votes, 18 fourth-place votes, 12 fifth-place votes and three sixth-place votes. Alabama had four more third-place votes than Ohio State, which came in at No. 3. The Buckeyes had one first-place vote and seven second-place votes.

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4 SEC teams appeared on all 63 ballots – No. 1 Georgia, No. 4, Alabama, No. 5 LSU and No. 12 Tennessee. No. 22 Ole Miss, which appeared on ballots in the 15th to 25th positions, was unranked by 12 voters. No. 23 Texas A&M, which appeared on ballots in spots from 13th through 16th, 18th through 22nd, 24th and 25th, was unranked by 29 voters.

5 Teams received second-place votes in the 2023 AP preseason poll, with No. 2 Michigan getting 48, No. 3 Ohio State seven, No. 4 Alabama four and No. 5 Georgia three. The other second-place vote went to No. 5 LSU. Georgia didn’t get any votes lower than second place, and Michigan, Ohio State and Alabama bottomed out at seventh, but LSU had votes spread from second through 11th. The Tigers also got six votes at No. 3, seven at No. 4, 15 at No. 5, 18 at No. 6, six at No. 7, six at No. 8, one at No. 9, one at No. 10 and two at No. 11.

6 SEC teams are ranked in the 2023 AP preseason poll, giving the league more ranked teams than any other conference. In this year’s preseason poll, the Big Ten and Pac-12 have five ranked teams apiece, the Big 12 has four, the ACC three and the American one. There’s also on independent program ranked.

6 SEC teams that did not place in the top 25 of the 2023 AP preseason poll received votes. South Carolina collected 73 points and placed 27th among the 49 teams that appeared on ballots. Arkansas was 30th with 22 points, Kentucky 33rd with 14 points, Auburn 37th with seven points and Mississippi State and Florida tied for 39th (with Duke and Toledo) with four points apiece.

11 Teams ranked No. 1 in the AP’s preseason poll have gone on to be No. 1 in the AP’s final poll for that season. Alabama in 2017 is the most recent to do so, and the Crimson Tide also accomplished that feat in 1978. Two of the 11 teams held the No. 1 spot for the entire season – Florida State in 1999 and Southern Cal in 2004. The other teams that held the No. 1 spot in the preseason poll and the final poll in the same season have been Tennessee in 1951, Michigan State in 1952, Oklahoma in 1956, 1974, 1975 and 1985 and Florida State in 1993.

11 Votes for Tennessee at No. 13, the most popular position for the Volunteers, who finished No. 12 but received votes at 10 positions. Tennessee also got one vote at No. 7, three votes apiece at No. 8 and No. 9, six at No. 10, 10 each at No. 11, No. 12 and No. 14, seven at No. 15 and two at No. 17.

13 Consecutive AP preseason polls had Alabama as the highest-ranked SEC team – a streak that ended this year with Georgia at No. 1 in the preseason rankings. Alabama’s streak ranks as the longest in SEC history for being the conference’s highest-ranked team in the preseason poll. In the previous preseason poll in which Alabama was not the SEC’s highest-ranked team, Florida was No. 1 in 2009, with the Crimson Tide at No. 5. Alabama led the conference’s rankings in the preseason poll in the 11 seasons from 1972 through 1982. There are only two other instances when an SEC program was the conference’s highest-ranked team in the preseason poll for more than back-to-back years. Georgia Tech was the SEC’s highest-ranked team in five consecutive preseason polls (from 1952 through 1956), and Auburn was the SEC’s highest-ranked team for three polls in a row (1983 through 1985).

13 Of the previous 33 times that Auburn did not appear among the ranked teams in the AP preseason poll, the Tigers were included in the final poll that season. In six other seasons in which the Tigers did not appear in the preseason poll, they were ranked at some point during the campaign but did not place in the final poll. The first poll of 2023 was the 22nd poll in a row that did not include Auburn, the Tigers’ longest streak without being ranked since a 28-poll streak that ended in the 2013 season. Auburn ranked No. 2 in the final poll of 2013.

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15 Consecutive AP preseason polls have included Alabama in the top five, extending the record for the longest such streak in poll history. Florida State has the second-longest streak of top-five preseason appearances with 11 from 1990 through 2000. The most recent preseason poll that didn’t include Alabama in the top five came in 2008, when the Crimson Tide opened at No. 24 and finished at No. 6. Alabama’s No. 4 ranking this year is the Tide’s lowest since it was No. 5 in the 2009 preseason poll (and finished No. 1).

22 Consecutive AP preseason polls have included Georgia, the second-longest streak in SEC history. The SEC record for consecutive appearances in the AP preseason poll is 24, set by Alabama from 1961 through 1984. At No. 1 this year, Georgia moved out a tie for second with LSU, which was ranked in 21 consecutive preseason polls from 2001 through 2021.

27 Consecutive seasons have included at least one AP poll appearance by Georgia, with the Bulldogs’ No. 1 ranking in this year’s preseason poll extending the third-longest streak in SEC history. The SEC record for consecutive seasons with at least one AP poll appearance is 45 by Alabama, set from 1959 through 2003. That’s second on the all-time national list, behind Ohio State’s current 56 in a row. The SEC’s second-longest streak of seasons with an AP poll appearance is 34 by Florida from 1980 through 2013. Georgia is tied with Wisconsin for the second-longest active streak in the nation.

57 Appearances for Alabama in the 74 AP preseason polls. That’s the fifth-most appearances, behind Ohio State with 70, Oklahoma 65, Southern Cal 62 and Notre Dame 60. At the other end of the preseason-poll appearance list is Vanderbilt, which has never made the preseason rankings. Among the other current SEC members, Tennessee has 43 preseason-poll appearances, Georgia and LSU 42 apiece, Auburn and Florida 40 each, Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 27, Ole Miss 20, South Carolina and Missouri 10 apiece, Mississippi State eight and Kentucky five.

246 Consecutive AP polls have included Alabama, the nation’s longest current streak and the second-longest in AP poll history. The most recent AP poll that did not include Alabama was the final one of the 2007 season. The only streak of poll appearances longer than Alabama’s belongs to Nebraska at 348. After beating Colorado 59-0 on Oct. 10, 1981, Nebraska was ranked No. 19 two days later, and the Cornhuskers were not unranked again until the Sept. 29, 2002, poll, after back-to-back losses to Penn State and Iowa State dropped them to 3-2.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.