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AP Top 25: Georgia remains No. 1, USC rises 10 places


AP Top 25: Georgia remains No. 1, USC rises 10 places

Florida State fell out of the Associated Press college football poll on Tuesday after starting the season 0-2, becoming only the third team to slip from the preseason top 10 to the unranked regular season poll since the rankings were expanded to No. 25 in 1989.

Georgia remained No. 1, receiving 57 first-place votes after opening the season with a commanding win over then-No. 14 Clemson. The Tigers held on to No. 25.

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Ohio State is No. 2 with five first-place finishes. No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama each moved up one spot, making three SEC teams in the top four alongside Georgia.

Notre Dame (No. 5) moved up two spots after opening the season with a win at then-No. 20 Texas A&M, which had fallen out of the rankings.

Florida State has been the biggest disappointment to start the season. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions lost a game in Dublin, Ireland, to ACC rival Georgia Tech in Week 0 and then lost another league game at home to Boston College on Monday night.

No other preseason top-25 team has lost to an unranked opponent in its season opener this year. Florida State did it twice as a double-digit favorite.

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The other preseason top-10 teams to fall entirely out of the top 25 after Week 1 in the last 35 years were Michigan in 2007 after its famous loss to Appalachian State as a No. 5 seed and Clemson in 2008. The Tigers were No. 9 but lost heavily to Alabama early on and fell out of the rankings.

Ole Miss remained at No. 6. Oregon slipped four spots to No. 7 after a narrow win over Idaho. Penn State remained at No. 8. Missouri moved up two spots to No. 9, so the SEC now has five teams in the top 10. Michigan dropped one spot to No. 10.

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Georgia Tech’s 2-0 start puts the Yellowjackets in 23rd place in the rankings for the first time since 2015.

The biggest climbers in the top 25 were Miami and USC.

The Hurricanes jumped seven spots to 19th after their win over Florida at The Swamp, their best ranking since breaking into the top 10 toward the end of the 2020 season.

No. 13 USC rose 10 spots after beating LSU with a late touchdown on Sunday night in Las Vegas. The loss dropped LSU to No. 18.

The Trojans started last season ranked No. 6 but finished unranked after a disappointing 8-5 season featuring 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams.

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The only other team to move up in the rankings this week besides Georgia Tech was ACC school Louisville. The Cardinals were among the most voted unranked teams in the preseason and are now ranked 22nd.

Although Florida State and Clemson started the season 0-3, the ACC has one more team in the rankings this week than last time:

SEC – 8 (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18).

Big Ten – 6 (Nos. 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21).

ACC – 5 (No. 12, 22, 23, 24, 25).

Big 12 – 5 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 19, 20).

Independent – ​​1 (No. 5).

(College football rankings 2024: Georgia, Ohio State at the top; Nebraska cracks the top 25)

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Here are the complete top 25:

1. Georgia (57 votes for first place)
2. Ohio State (5 votes for first place)
3. Texas
4. Alabama
5. Notre-Dame
6. Ole Miss
7. Oregon
8. Penn State
9. Missouri
10. Michigan
11. Utah
12. Miami (Florida)
13. USC
14. Tennessee
15. Oklahoma
16. State of Oklahoma
17. State of Kansas
18. LSU
19. Kansas
20. Arizona
21. Iowa
22. Louisville
23. Georgia Tech Institute
24. State of North Carolina
25. Clemson

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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