Pro Football Focus – which also covers college football – has released its Top 25 College Football Teams for 2016: Spring Edition. The poll has six SEC teams ranked, including four in the Top 10.

Similar to other preseason polls, the defending national champions are on top. Steve Palazzolo offers the following for having the Crimson Tide at No. 1:

It may sound cliché at this point to put Alabama at the top, but even with their usual plethora of talent heading to the NFL, they still have plenty of top players coming back. Even though they’ve lost 5,079 defensive snaps to the NFL, they return eight players in their front-seven who played at least 180 snaps and graded positively, including two pass-rush forces in DT Jonathan Allen and the nation’s most efficient snap-for-snap pass rusher in OLB Tim Williams. Offensively, they have to reload at quarterback with either Cooper Bateman or former Elite 11 champion Blake Barnett, but with most of their receiving talent and three starters on the offensive line coming back, they will be right in the mix for the National Championship once again.

As you may notice in the Alabama analysis, PFF takes a statistics-heavy approach to rankings. The other SEC teams to make the poll include LSU (No. 3), Tennessee (No. 9) and Ole Miss (No. 10) in the Top 10, while Auburn (No. 22) and Texas A&M (No. 24) round out the bottom five.

For more team analysis, check out PFF’s full article.

The complete poll:

  1. Alabama
  2. Oklahoma
  3. LSU
  4. Clemson
  5. Michigan
  6. Florida State
  7. Stanford
  8. Ohio State
  9. Tennessee
  10. Ole Miss
  11. Notre Dame
  12. Baylor
  13. North Carolina
  14. Boise State
  15. Oklahoma State
  16. Houston
  17. Washington
  18. Utah
  19. TCU
  20. Iowa
  21. Oregon
  22. Auburn
  23. Washington State
  24. Texas A&M
  25. UCLA