Florida St. drops out of AP Top 25 after 0-2
Florida State fell out of the Associated Press college football survey on Tuesday after beginning the season 0-2, becoming just the 3rd team to go from preseason top-10 to unranked in the first regular-season poll considering that the rankings expanded to 25 in 1989.
Georgia remained No. 1, receiving 57 first-place votes after beginning the season with a blowout of then-No. 14 Clemson. The Tigers hung on at No. 25.
Ohio State is No. 2 with 5 first-place votes. No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama each went up a spot, putting 3 Southeastern Conference groups in the top 4 along with Georgia.Editor’s Picks 2 Related No. 5 Notre Dame
leapt two
areas after opening the season with a triumph at then-No. 20 Texas A&M, which fell out of the rankings.Florida State has actually been the early season’s major dissatisfaction.
The safeguarding Atlantic Coast Conference champ lost a Week 0 game in Dublin, Ireland, to ACC competing Georgia Tech and after that dropped another league game Monday night in the house to Boston College.No other preseason Top 25 group this year lost to an unranked opponent to open the season.
Florida State did it two times as a double-digit favorite and did not receive a single vote from the AP poll panel.In the previous 35 years, the other preseason top-10 groups to fall out of the Top 25 after Week 1 were Michigan in 2007 after famously losing to Appalachian State as No. 5 and Clemson in 2008. The Tigers were No. 9 however opened with a blowout loss to Alabama and tumbled out of the rankings.1. Georgia( 57)1-0 2. Ohio St.(5 )1-0 3. Texas 1-0 4. Alabama 1-0 5. Notre Dame 1-0 6. Mississippi 1-0 7. Oregon 1-0 8. Penn St.1-0 9.
| Missouri 1-0 10. Michigan | 1-0 | ||
| 11. Utah 1-0 | |||
| 12. Miami 1-0 | |||
| 13. Southern Cal | 1-0 | ||
| 14. Tennessee | 1-0 | ||
| 15. Oklahoma 1-0 | |||
| 16. Oklahoma St.1-0 17 | . Kansas St.1-0 18. LSU 0-1 19 | . Kansas 1-0 20. Arizona 1-0 | |
| 21. Iowa 1-0 | |||
| 22. Louisville 1-0 | |||
| 23. Georgia Tech 2-0 24. | |||
| NC State 1-0 25. Clemson | 0-1 | ||
| Mississippi stayed at No. 6 | |||
| . Oregon slipped | 4 spots to No. 7 after winning a close game with | Idaho. Penn State stayed at No. 8. | Missouri |
| went up | two | ||
| areas to No. | 9 to | ||
| offer the SEC 5 groups in the top 10. Michigan dropped one spot to No. 10. Georgia Tech’s 2-0 start has the | |||
| No. 23 Yellowjackets ranked for | |||
| the first time since 2015. Survey points Due to the fact that Florida State began its season a week before many |
of the country, it moves into an unique club of groups that began their seasons 0-2 with each loss coming while ranked in the top 10. Notre Dame was the last to do it in 2022, when the Fighting Irish began the season No. 5, lost at No. 2 Ohio State in their opener, and after that were upset in your home the next week by Marshall while ranked 8th. The Irish went to on surface 9-4
. Ohio State opened the 1986 season ranked ninth and lost back-to-back games to ranked opponents, No. 5 Alabama and No. 17 Washington. The Buckeyes were No. 10 when they played the Huskies. Ohio State finished the season 10-3.
The 1967 Texas group and TCU from 1952 likewise began 0-2 while ranked in the top 10 of both games.Florida State is just the 2nd ranked group to lose twice before the very first regular-season survey was launched, joining 1951 Kentucky. The Wildcats went from No. 6 to No. 17 while going 1-2 to start the season, losing at No. 11 Texas and at Mississippi.Florida State gets a weekend off before resuming its schedule with home games versus Memphis and new ACC member California before a journey to SMU followed by a home game versus Clemson.
“You have actually got a football group that no one imagined ever being where we are and having dissatisfaction, having failure, but I do think in what this group can do,” coach Mike Norvell said after the BC loss.” I believe in what this group can accomplish.”Going up The huge risers in the Top 25 were Miami and Southern California.The Hurricanes jumped seven areas to No. 12 after routing Florida at The Swamp and have their finest ranking since breaking the top 10 late in the 2020 season.No. 13 USC moved up 10 locations after beating LSU with a late touchdown Sunday night in Las Vegas.
The loss dropped LSU to No. 18. The Trojans began last season at No. 6, however ended up unranked after a disappointing 8-5 season with 2022 Heisman Prize winner Caleb Williams.In and out The only other team to move into the rankings today, along with Georgia Tech, was fellow ACC school
Louisville. The Cardinals were among the leading unranked vote-getters in the preseason and now sit at No. 22. Conference call Despite Florida State and Clemson beginning the season 0-3, the ACC has one more team in this week’s rankings than it did 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(Nos. 12, 22, 23, 24, 25 ). Big 12-5 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 19, 20
). Independent-1(No. 5). Ranked vs. ranked No. 3 Texas at No. 10 Michigan. The first regular-season meeting ever is a top-10 matchup
at the Big
House.No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 24 NC State in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fascinating SEC-ACC ranked match.