The LSU football team opens the 2015 season ranked in the top 15 of the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll for the fifth-straight year, the AP released Sunday.
The AP slates LSU as the No. 14 college football team in the nation, its lowest preseason ranking since checking in at No. 21 in 2010. The Tigers started last season at No. 13 in the same poll and finished unranked after losing to Notre Dame, 31-28, in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to collegepolltracker.com, LSU was slated as high as No. 2 nationally by one voter, while another left the Tigers off their ballot entirely.
The Tigers are one of eight Southeastern Conference teams in the top 25 and are the fourth-ranked team in the conference behind No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 Auburn and No. 9 Georgia.