Alabama, Clemson, Michigan State and Oklahoma played in the College Football Playoff last season, and the coaches who vote in the USA Today Coaches Poll believe the Crimson Tide will win the playoff this season.

Alabama was No. 1 in the preseason edition of the poll with 55 of 64 first-place votes and 1585 points in the rankings released Thursday, finishing ahead of Clemson and Oklahoma. The Tigers received seven first places votes. Oklahoma did not receive a first-place vote, but No. 4 Florida State received one as did No. 10 Tennessee.

Ohio State rounded out the preseason top five.

The Southeastern Conference had six teams in the rankings, and the Pac-12 has five teams in the preseason poll. The Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 have four ranked teams each.

Each voting coach submits his top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24 points and so on down to one point for 25th.

You can see the complete preseason top 25 below.

2016 USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll

1. Alabama (55 first-place votes) - 1,585 points

2. Clemson (7) - 1,524

3. Oklahoma - 1,398

4. Florida State (1) - 1,351

5. Ohio State - 1,321

6. LSU - 1,241

7. Stanford - 1,149

8. Michigan - 1,062

9. Notre Dame - 1,034

10. Tennessee - 960

11. Michigan State - 901

12. Ole Miss - 792

13. Houston - 668

14. TCU - 649

15. Iowa - 579

16. Georgia - 525

17. USC - 468

18. Washington - 454

19. Oklahoma State - 426

20. North Carolina - 422

21. Baylor - 383

22. Oregon - 361

23. Louisville - 331

24. UCLA - 296

25. Florida - 245

Also receiving votes: Miami (Fla.) 120; Wisconsin 82; Utah 73; Boise State 73; Washington State 47; Texas A&M 37; Texas 34; Arkansas 34; Northwestern 31; Navy 30; Mississippi State 19; San Diego State 18; Nebraska 17; Auburn 17; Western Kentucky 11; Pittsburgh 8; Brigham Young 6; Appalachian State 4; Duke 3; Arizona 2; Marshall 2; Toledo 2; South Florida 2; Memphis 1; Indiana 1; Northern Illinois 1.

The list of coaches participating in the poll for the 2016 season: Chris Ash, Rutgers; Dino Babers, Syracuse; David Bailiff, Rice; David Beaty, Kansas; Bret Bielema, Arkansas; John Bonamego, Central Michigan; Terry Bowden, Akron; Matt Campbell, Iowa State; Ron Caragher, San Jose State; Rod Carey, Northern Illinois; Paul Chryst, Wisconsin; Chris Creighton, Eastern Michigan; David Cutcliffe, Duke; DJ Durkin, Maryland; Larry Fedora, North Carolina; Jimbo Fisher, Florida State; James Franklin, Penn State; Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech; Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State; Bryan Harsin, Boise State; Clay Helton, Southern California; Tom Herman, Houston; Doc Holliday, Marshall; Skip Holtz, Louisiana Tech; Joey Jones, South Alabama, Brian Kelly, Notre Dame; Sean Kugler, Texas-El Paso; Mike Leach, Washington State; Lance Leipold, Buffalo; Seth Littrell, North Texas; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Mike MacIntyre, Colorado; Gus Malzahn, Auburn; Chuck Martin, Miami (Ohio); Doug Martin, New Mexico State; Derek Mason, Vanderbilt; Urban Meyer, Ohio State; Trent Miles, Georgia State; Philip Montgomery, Tulsa; Scottie Montgomery, East Carolina; Chad Morris, Southern Methodist; Dan Mullen, Mississippi State; Mike Norvell, Memphis; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Washington; Brian Polian, Nevada; Mark Richt, Miami (Fla.); Mike Riley, Nebraska; Rich Rodriguez, Arizona; Nick Saban, Alabama; Tony Sanchez, UNLV; Scott Satterfield, Appalachian State; Kirby Smart, Georgia; Frank Solich, Ohio; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M; Dabo Swinney, Clemson; Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati; Ron Turner, Florida International; Matt Wells, Utah State; Kyle Whittingham, Utah; Kevin Wilson, Indiana; Everett Withers, Texas State.