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Now it's starting to get real.

Since the streamers and confetti were cleaned off the field at the Rose Bowl after Florida State's BCS Championship Game victory over Auburn, there's been little to do but look ahead to the 2014 college football season. There were minor attention-grabbers, like NFL draft declarations, signing day and spring football, but nothing as good as the real thing.

There's still just under four weeks until the first games, but like leaves changing color to signify the coming of fall, we're seeing signs that college football is right around the corner. One of those was Thursday's release of the first official preseason Top 25 poll, the Amway coaches poll.

Previously known as the USA Today coaches poll (and still released by that media outlet), the rankings are compiled from the votes cast by 62 FBS head coaches. Though this season's national champion will be determined via the first-ever College Football Playoff, the team that finishes No. 1 in this poll will receive the trophy shown above.

Not surprisingly, defending national champ Florida State starts at No. 1 and earned 56 of 62 first-place votes. Click through the slideshow to see projected records for all of the Amway-ranked teams, as well as their odds of winning the title.

Note: Predicted records are based on regular-season games only.