What happened to the SEC chants?

For the first time in more than a decade, the Big Ten has national momentum heading into the offseason following Ohio State’s emphatic run through the inaugural College Football Playoff, taking down Alabama and Oregon on its way to Urban Meyer’s third career national championship.

The Buckeyes should be a near-consensus top selection thanks to arguably the most talented returning roster in all of college football.

RELATED: Way-too-early 2015 SEC East, West projections

Preseason polls are often determined by how a team finished the previous season and what they have coming back. We’ll try and project how voters will think when the first rankings are released later this summer. This poll does not directly reflect how we think the SEC East and West will finish.

Projecting the 2015 preseason AP Top 25

1. Ohio State

2. TCU

3. Auburn

4. Michigan State

5. Florida State

6. Oregon

7. Baylor

8. Alabama

9. Georgia

10. Clemson

11. Stanford

12. USC

13. Arizona State

14. Ole Miss

15. Arizona

16. Boise State

17. LSU

18. UCLA

19. Georgia Tech

20. Wisconsin

21. Notre Dame

22. Mizzou

23. Oklahoma

24. Tennessee

25. Arkansas