The 2017 AP Preseason College Football Poll has been released and as expected, the SEC led all conferences with six ranked teams. Alabama is your preseason No. 1 team, the fourth time the Crimson Tide have been the preseason No. 1 team under head coach Nick Saban.

What other notes of interest are there surrounding the first AP poll of the 2017 season?

Here are the top 10 notes you need to know about the SEC and this year’s preseason poll:

10. Tide back at No. 1

This will be the 54th week since 2009 that Alabama will be ranked No. 1. Not only is that the most weeks of any team in the FBS during this span, but the next closest team is fellow SEC foe Florida, which has been No. 1 for 13 weeks since 2009.

9. SEC leads the way … again

As mentioned earlier, the SEC has six teams ranked in the AP Preseason Top 25 Poll, the most of any conference. This is the 10th time in the past 11 seasons that the SEC has had at least six ranked teams in the preseason.

8. Tennessee cracks the Top 25, but not the Top 15

Although Butch Jones has now led the No. 25 Volunteers to a third consecutive preseason ranking, this also means Tennessee has failed to reach the Top 15 in the preseason poll for the ninth time in the past 10 seasons. (The exception was last year, when the Vols opened No. 9 and finished No. 22.)

By contrast, the Volunteers were ranked in the preseason Top 15 in 14 of 16 seasons under former head coach Phillip Fulmer.

7. LSU in the poll, surprise, surprise

No. 13 LSU is ranked in the preseason poll for the 17th consecutive season, which is the longest active streak among SEC teams.

The last time LSU was not ranked in the preseason was 2000, when the Tigers were beginning the season with a new head coach.

Nick Saban.

6. Kirby Smart a first in Georgia

Georgia enters the preseason poll at No. 15, the 16th consecutive season the Bulldogs have been ranked in the preseason poll (second-longest active streak in the SEC behind LSU).

The last time Georgia was not ranked in the preseason was 2001, when the Bulldogs were beginning the season with a new head coach.

Mark Richt.

This also means that Kirby Smart becomes the first coach in the history of the Georgia program to lead the Bulldogs to a preseason ranking in each of his first two seasons.

5. Florida ranked, but not where it is used to

Florida enters the 2017 season outside the preseason Top 10 for the sixth time in seven seasons since former head coach Urban Meyer left after the 2010 season.

The Gators were ranked in the preseason top 10 all six seasons under Meyer.

4. Auburn in the Top 15 once again

For the third time in the past four seasons, Auburn (No. 12) is ranked in the Top 15 in the preseason poll.

How rare is that for the Tigers’ program? You have to go back to Pat Dye in the 1980s to find the last time they were ranked in the Top 15 three times in a four-season stretch. Dye led the Tigers to eight consecutive preseason Top 15 rankings from 1983-90.

3. SEC with only one Top-10 team

Despite having the most ranked teams in the preseason poll, only one of the six ranked SEC teams is in the Top 10 – No. 1 Alabama.

This last time the SEC only had one preseason Top 10 team was 2003. That season, Auburn entered the preseason ranked No. 6.

Also that season, LSU went on to win the BCS National Championship.

2. Big gap between ranked SEC teams

The two highest-ranked SEC teams in the preseason poll are No. 1 Alabama and No. 12 Auburn.

This the biggest gap between the two highest-ranked SEC teams in a preseason poll since 1980, when the top SEC teams were No. 2 Alabama and No. 16 Georgia. The Bulldogs, of course, won the national championship that season.

1. Alabama is No. 1 again

When you’re the No. 1 team, you get an extra note. So here’s one more for Alabama.

This is the 10th consecutive season that Alabama has been ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll at some point during the season. That is the longest such streak in AP Poll history.