U-M, Washington, FSU follow UGA; Buckeyes sixth
Nov 26, 2023, 02:11 PM ET
No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Oregon all moved up an area in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, providing the Pac-12 2 top-five groups for the first time given that the last ranking of the 2016 season.Georgia stayed No.
1 as the two-time protecting nationwide champions have been for 24 straight polls, dating back to the middle of last season. The Bulldogs got 52 of 62 first-place votes.Michigan returned to No. 2 following a week at No.
3 and got 10 first-place votes after beating Ohio State 30-24 in Ann Arbor on Saturday.Rank, Group Rec.Pts.LW 1. Georgia( 52)12-0 1540 1 2. Michigan( 10)12-0 1495 3 3. Washington 12-0 1413 4 4
| . Florida State 12-0 1358 5 5 | . | Oregon 11-1 1277 6 6. Ohio State 11-1 1251 2 7 | . Texas 11-1 1205 7 8. | Alabama 11-1 | |
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| 1125 8 9. Missouri 10-2 1011 | 10 10 | . Penn State 10-2 | |||
| 961 11 11. Ole Miss 10-2 936 12 12 | . Oklahoma | 10-2 857 13 13 | |||
| . LSU 9-3 809 14 14 | . Arizona 9-3 712 16 15. Louisville 10-2 689 9 | ||||
| 16. Notre | Dame | 9-3 592 17 17. Tulane 11-1 557 | |||
| 18 18. Iowa 10-2 458 20 19. Oklahoma State 9-3 407 21 20. Liberty 12-0 293 22 21. NC State 9-3 | 269- | 21. Oregon | State 8-4 269 | ||
| 15 23. Toledo 11-1 | 176 23 24. James Madison 11-1 | ||||
| 121 24 25. SMU | 10-2 | 108- | The Buckeyes slipped from 2nd to No. | 6, | clearing the method for Washington to reach its best ranking given that ending up the 2000 season at |
| No. 3 and establishing | a top-five | match with Oregon in | |||
| the Pac-12 championship game Friday in Las Vegas.The last | |||||
| Pac-12 championship game in the conference’s existing | |||||
| form before 10 members | leave for | other Power 5 | |||
| conferences will be its first matching top-five teams.The last time | |||||
| there were two Pac-12 teams | in the top | five of the AP poll was 2016, when | USC finished No. 3 and Washington No. 4 | ||
| . The last time it happened throughout the season was Oct. | 6, | ||||
| 2013, when Oregon was No. 2 and Stanford was | fifth.No. 7 | ||||
| Texas and No. 8 | Alabama held their places Sunday. Missouri moved up one spot to ninth | and | Penn State to No. | ||
| 10. The same eight groups have actually been the leading | 8 in | ||||
| the country for 5 straight weeks, with the only loss | among those groups during that period being Ohio State’s | to Michigan.The last time there was |
no group turnover in the leading 8 for that long was throughout Weeks 11-15 in 2008. That year, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, USC, Penn State, Utah and Texas Tech held the top 8 spots in some order for five weeks.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Amongst the top 8 teams
, there are just four losses, one each for Oregon, Ohio State, Texas and Alabama. Of those 4 losses, 3 have actually pertained to other groups in the leading eight: Oregon lost to Washington, Ohio State lost to Michigan, and Alabama lost to Texas.Texas’loss concerned No. 12 Oklahoma. Extend it out to the top 12 to include No. 11 Ole Miss and the only loss to a currently unranked team amongst that group is Oklahoma’s to Kansas.MOVING IN; LEAVING NC State and SMU made their Leading 25 debuts this week, raising to 44 the overall number of groups to be ranked for a minimum of a week this season.Falling out for the very first time was Tennessee, which completed its routine season 8-4 with a success over Vanderbilt after hardly hanging on at No. 25 last week.Kansas State likewise dropped out once again after losing a high-scoring game in the snow to Iowa State.CONFERENCE CALL 5 groups from non-Power 5 conferences in the AP Top 25 is the most because the final 2021 poll.SEC: 5 (Nos. 1, 8, 9, 11, 13)Pac-12: 4(Nos. 3, 5, 14, 21-tie)Big 10: 4(Nos. 2, 6, 10, 18 )ACC: 3( Nos. 4, 15, 21-tie)Huge 12: 3(
Nos. 7, 12, 19)American: 2 (Nos. 17
, 25)Conference USA: 1 (No. 20 )Sun Belt: 1(No. 24)Mid-American: 1(No. 23) Independent: 1(No. 16 )RANKED vs. RANKED No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 1 Georgia: SEC championship in Atlanta No. 18 Iowa vs. No. 2 Michigan: Big 10 championship in Indianapolis No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 3 Washington: Pac-12 champion in Las Vegas No. 15 Louisville vs. No. 4 Florida State: ACC championship in Charlotte, North Carolina No. 19 Oklahoma State vs. No. 7 Texas: Big 12 champion in Arlington, Texas No. 25 SMU at No. 17 Tulane: AAC championship in
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