With another week of college football in the books, Ohio State remains the top team in the land according to the voters in the Associated Press top 25. The Buckeyes earned 59 of 61 possible first-place votes. The other two first-place votes stayed in the Big Ten, rather than going to Alabama or TCU. No. 4 Michigan State picked up two first-place votes following a big win Saturday night over Oregon. The Spartans moved up one spot, switching spots with Baylor, while Oregon dropped five spots to No. 12. The other big drop in this week’s AP poll was with No. 18 Auburn falling 12 spots after being taken to overtime by Jacksonville State.
Two newcomers to the AP poll this week are No. 19 BYU (two spots ahead of No. 21 Utah), and No. 23 Northwestern (one spot ahead of division foe Wisconsin).
The SEC lost three teams in this week’s poll with losses by Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State, yet the conference still has more ranked teams than any other conference with seven. The Pac-12 is second with five ranked teams in the AP poll. The Big Ten and Big 12 each have four schools ranked, and the ACC has three ranked teams in the latest AP poll.
- Ohio State (59 first-place votes)
- Alabama
- TCU
- Michigan State (2)
- Baylor
- USC
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Florida State
- UCLA
- Clemson
- Oregon
- LSU
- Georgia Tech
- Ole Miss
- Oklahoma
- Texas A&M
- Auburn
- BYU
- Arizona
- Utah
- Missouri
- Northwestern
- Wisconsin
- Oklahoma State