Duke, Colorado get in Top 25; FSU vaults to No

No. 21 Duke and No. 22 Colorado moved into the Associated Press Top 25 college football survey Tuesday after scoring the greatest upsets of the opening weekend of the season, and No. 4 Florida State delved into the leading 5 after its definite success over LSU in Week 1’s marquee game.Georgia remained No. 1 with 58 first-place votes and Michigan held steady at No. 2 with two first-place votes.No. 3 Alabama moved up an area and Florida State climbed four locations and got the staying three first-place votes after beating LSU 45-24. The Seminoles remain in the top five for the first time since the beginning of the 2017 season.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated Ohio State completed the leading 5 in the

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regular-season survey of the season.LSU dropped 9 areas to No. 15. Clemson, which was disturbed at Duke, fell 16 locations to No. 25.

TCU, which lost to Colorado, dropped all the method out of the rankings after being No. 17 in the preseason.Colorado’s success as a three-touchdown underdog at TCU in coach Deion Sanders’ debut was the story of

the weekend, and now the Buffaloes are ranked for the first time since a brief stay during the 2020 season. The Buffs were also ranked for two weeks in 2018, however have actually just finished a season in the Top 25 once(2016)in the past 20 seasons.1. Georgia(58 )2. Michigan (2)3. Alabama 4. Florida State (3 )5. Ohio State 6. USC 7. Penn State 8.

transformation, with almost 90 new players and 58 of them transfers. The new-look Buffs came away with a 45-42 success on the roadway against the program that played in the nationwide title game last season.The rest of the top 10 was USC at No. 6, followed by Penn State, Washington, Tennessee and Notre Dame.Duke topped the long Labor Day weekend of college football by knocking off Clemson 28-7 on Monday night in Durham, North Carolina. It was the Blue Devils ‘first triumph versus a group ranked in the leading 10 given that 1989 against a Clemson group ranked seventh.In Year 2 under coach Mike Elko, perennial basketball powerhouse Duke is ranked for the

very first time in the AP college football survey because a one-week stint in 2018. That season was also the last

time Florida State made an appearance in the preseason Top 25. The Seminoles quickly faded that year, slipping into the worst stretch the program has had because the 1970s. These Seminoles opened with their most impressive victory because coach Jimbo Fisher left for Texas A&M late in the 2017 season.Coach Mike Norvell’s group broke through last season, going 10-3 and finishing No. 11 in the nation. The triumph over LSU was the Seminoles’ first against a group ranked in the top five

since October 2014 in the house versus No. 5 Notre Dame.POLL POINTS Having Florida State near the top of the AP poll is a familiar sight, simply not as much just recently. The last time FSU was ranked this highly during the routine season was when it reached No. 2 in September 2016. The Seminoles had one of the best stretches in college football history under coach Bobby Bowden from the late 1980s into the early 2000s. That included a record 14 straight seasons ending up in the leading 5 and two national titles.The Seminoles went three successive seasons(2019-2021)never ever being ranked, the longest streak of futility for the program given that the mid-1970s, prior to turning it around in 2022. Florida State’s top-five ranking was its 240th given that 1980, 2nd only to Alabama with 281. RANKED vs. RANKED No. 11 Texas at No. 3 Alabama. The game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will be the very first regular-season meeting in between

Texas and Alabama with both ranked.No. 20 Ole Miss at No. 24 Tulane. The 64th conference in the series will be the first given that 1956 where both teams are ranked.