BATON ROUGE — For the fifth time in head coach Les Miles‘ seven-year tenure, the LSU Football team was ranked in the Top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25, which was released on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. CT.
Miles’ Tigers were voted No. 4 by a panel of national writers after coming it at No. 4 in the USA Today Coaches Preseason Poll. LSU received one first-place vote.
LSU opens the 2011 season on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. CT when it faces No. 3 Oregon in the Cowboys Classic in Arlington, Texas. A school-record 37,000 tickets were distributed to LSU season ticket holders for the neutral-site game.
ESPN College GameDay will be on-site at Cowboys Stadium from 8-11 a.m. as the national spotlight will be on the Tigers and Ducks. It will mark the 15th time LSU has been a part of the ESPN-featured game, most recently last year’s season-opener against North Carolina in the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff.
LSU Football AP Preseason Poll History Since 1959
Season – Rank
2011 – 4
2010 – 21
2009 – 11
2008 – 7
2007 – 2
2006 – 8
2005 – 5
2004 – 4
2003 – 14
2002 – 14
2001 – 14
1998 – 9
1997 – 10
1996 – 19
1989 – 7
1988 – 18
1987 – 6
1986 – 15
1985 – 13
1983 – 12
1978 – 13
1974 – 9
1973 – 16
1972 – 11
1971 – 9
1970 – 12
1968 – 18
1965 – 8
1962 – 5
1961 – 5
1959 – 1
BOLD under Coach Les Miles
Associated Press Preseason Top 25
Team (First-Place Votes), 2010 Record, Final 2010 Ranking
1. Oklahoma (36) 12-2 1,464 6
2. Alabama (17) 10-3 1,439 10
3. Oregon (4) 12-1 1,330 3
4. LSU (1) 11-2 1,286 8
5. Boise St. (2) 12-1 1,200 9
6. Florida St. 10-4 1,168 17
7. Stanford 12-1 1,091 4
8. Texas A&M 9-4 965 19
9. Oklahoma St. 11-2 955 13
10. Nebraska 10-4 910 20
11. Wisconsin 11-2 900 7
12. South Carolina 9-5 848 22
13. Virginia Tech 11-3 821 16
14. TCU 13-0 690 2
15. Arkansas 10-3 686 12
16. Notre Dame 8-5 530 NR
17. Michigan St. 11-2 519 14
18. Ohio St. 12-1 443 5
19. Georgia 6-7 369 NR
20. Mississippi St. 9-4 361 15
21. Missouri 10-3 258 18
22. Florida 8-5 228 NR
23. Auburn 14-0 219 1
24. West Virginia 9-4 207 NR
25. Southern Cal 8-5 160 NR
Others receiving votes: Texas 114, Penn St. 75, Arizona St. 67, Miami 32, Utah 25, Southern Miss. 20, Iowa 19, BYU 15, NC State 15, Air Force 14, Houston 13, Pittsburgh 9, Michigan 7, Tennessee 5, UCF 5, Hawaii 4, N. Illinois 4, Tulsa 3, Arizona 2, Maryland 2, Nevada 1, Northwestern 1, Washington 1.