This may come as a shock considering it returns six players who started games for the 39-0 national championship team, but UConn was the unanimous No. 1 team in the preseason Associated Press poll.

The Huskies were followed by Stanford, Ohio State, Notre Dame and North Carolina. Ohio State is the only one of the top five teams not on UConn's regular-season schedule.

UConn also plays No. 6 Duke, No. 12 Texas, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 15 Florida State, No. 17 DePaul, No. 23 Louisville and No. 25 Rutgers. It should be noted that No. 16 Arizona State will play at Yale on Nov. 19 and No. 22 Vanderbilt plays at Quinnipiac on Dec. 10.