Week 7 AP Poll released
What a wild weekend we just witnessed in the Southeastern Conference.
Following Florida’s upset at Texas A&M and Georgia’s destruction of Tennessee in Athens, we are down to just two undefeated teams in the league.
Of course, we will be down to just one this time next week as Georgia is set to travel to Tuscaloosa next weekend.
Alabama’s defense looked about as bad as it ever has last weekend against Ole Miss and that will have to get cleaned up before the Bulldogs get to town.
Here is the latest top 25 rankings from the updated AP Poll, which was released on Sunday:
#1 Clemson
#2 Alabama
#3 Georgia
#4 Notre Dame
#5 North Carolina
#6 Ohio State
#7 Oklahoma State
#8 Cincinnati
#9 Penn State
#10 Florida
#11 Texas A&M
#12 Oregon
#13 Miami
#14 BYU
#15 Auburn
#16 Wisconsin
#17 SMU
#18 Tennessee
#19 Michigan
#20 Iowa State
#21 Louisiana
#22 Kansas State
#23 Virginia Tech
#24 Minnesota
#25 USC
Others Receiving Votes:
Marshall 106, North Carolina State 87, Oklahoma 71, Tulsa 62, UCF 57, Boston College 43, Coastal Carolina 38, UAB 29, Utah 29, Iowa 28, West Virginia 25, Army 21, Memphis 12, Air Force 12, Ole Miss 6, Arizona State 6, Texas 5, Houston 5, LSU 5, Washington 4, Missouri 2, TCU 2, Virginia 2, Louisiana Tech 2, Indiana 1
It’s strange how Texas A&M is still being ranked right behind Florida when they just beat Florida.
Not sure of the thinking on this as well. Florida’s loss is to the team behind them, whereas TAMU lost to Bama, higher quality loss than ours… No offense to TAMU
I’m fine with this kind of treatment. I’d rather be working towards the better ranking than be gifted the unearned ranking only to stumble late as we did in the latter Sumlin years.
Yes. We remember the pain all too well. Although I don’t understand the logic, as long as Mond and the team show what they displayed yesterday CONSISTENTLY, we can always climb up the ladder.
Some voters won’t let go of their favorites. I noticed LSU got more votes than Mizzou.
Floriduh and Tennessee are ranked-too high.
Bama’s gonna beat us on Saturday, but it won’t be a blowout. 28-20, and Georgia might not move out of the top-5.
Everything comes down to Atlanta.
Two observations: Aggies are in the top ten of teams that actually have played football this season.
Okie State is the new tallest midget in that dumpster fire of a conference. Hilarious!
I am actively cheering for Mike Gundy for the rest of the season. Would make me laugh so hard if he beat the two goateed gurus for the Big 12 title.
Actually if you think about it, it makes sense that Florida is ranked ahead of Texas A&M. Florida’s offense is exceptional, dare I say the best in the country this year, whereas Texas A&M is mired in mediocrity on all fronts. Had Florida not turned the ball over, or had they had 2 more minutes, it would have been over for A&M. Plus Florida had 2 dominant wins against teams much better than Vandy, and one extremely close loss against a A&M team that was playing their best game in a packed Kyle’s Field stadium. Texas A&Ms victories against Florida and Vanderbilt (a terrible team) where just pure luck, and they were obliterated by Bama. Florida’s defense is awful (but A&M is pretty terrible as well), but I doubt Mullen won’t find some way to improve it, whereas A&M played their best possible game against Florida, and still almost lost. I think the ranking is very fair. Place that game in a neutral site, and Florida will win at least 6 times out of 10 guaranteed.
Havent posted here in over a year but this comment was so dumb you just about forced me to….. don’t even talk about a&ms offense we outgained y’all 543-402 in total yards, 32 to 22 in first downs, and ran for over 200 yards on over 5 yards a carry. Y’all have a good offense and for all the classy gators fans i’ve seen i wish the best the rest of the season but man this is a dumb comment, we were the better team yesterday and no stat says florida was better in any way.
No need to throw insults, but the fact is, the only thing that is better about your team is your defense, and even that is by a very small margin. Florida’s offense outclasses A&M’s in all fronts. The only reason you had more yards than us is because our defense is worse than yours, and Mond had the game of his life, and you had more opportunities to play offense than us. Having more yards is not necessarily a testament to your strength. Texas A&M is a very good team, and virtually has the same talent level as Florida, and I hope that you somehow still clinch the SEC West, but you and I both know that many factors landed on your side for you to pull off that win. That fumble gave you the game that’s just a fact, and while our atrocious defense didn’t do anything to help matters, the simple fact is that games are very unpredictable, you can’t say that a team is better than another team because they other team fumbled, and you recovered the ball to score a field goal in garbage time. And let’s not forget the home field advantage as well. If Florida and Texas A&M somehow play again with each other this year, there is no clear winner, and if the game is a neutral site, I guarantee you most experts will still pick Florida to win, albeit by a small margin.
None of what you said matters. They got beat on the field. Their only loss comes to number 2. Rankings arent based on hypothetical matchups. It was a game the Gators were picked to win and they did not. Their ranking was based on their all universe offense being able to overcome their middle school caliber defense. It did not. A&M has the better loss and the win head to head. No reason for them to be ranked lower.
These polls are based off of voter’s opinions, and obviously they still feel like Florida should be ranked higher. The coaches actually have the Gators 2 spots higher in their rankings, so it’s not like it’s some crazy off the wall thing the AP did. A&M played great and won by a last second field goal off a turnover, good for them, that just means they were better that day, but doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the better team overall. I would think after what happened against USC last season, a Dawg fan would understand that concept. If they dominated both sides of the ball and won easily, then it would definitely be odd they were still behind.
Georgia outgained USC by a tremendous margin and lost because of 3 turnovers and a missed field goal in OT. USC also had several losses coming into the game to teams worse than UGA. TAMU outgained Florida, and has just one loss, to the #2 team in the country.
This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen this season. Respect to Florida’s offense, but A&M’s both fronts all mediocre??? Our O-line had entire control over y’all D-line. That was not luck by any means lol. I’m going to borrow a comment I saw here: if you’re gonna play the “if only Florida hadn’t fumbled” game, we also had Ainais Smith fumble I think in the third quarter, we would be up by two digits. Buddy, football isn’t about IFs…
No need to insult. A part of you knows that I’m right. If let’s say in 3 weeks, Florida were to play Texas A&M again for whatever reason either in Gainesville or in a neutral site, can you really be confident that you’ll win again? The answer is no, and if anything experts would likely still pick Florida to pull off a win. If A&M plays Bama again, however, virtually everyone will agree that Bama will most likely win again. Florida and A&M are very close when it comes to talent unlike Bama and A&M or Bama and Florida, but you would have to be living in a fantasy if you couldn’t see that you could have just as easily lost that game. And yes hypotheticals do matter when they happen in the last moments of the game, that is literally how upsets happen. With your logic, Arizona State is better than Oregon because they upset them last year, but you and I both know that’s certainly not the case, and idk if you watched that game or its highlights, but the only reason Oregon lost is because of a miracle Arizona Hail Mary in the last seconds of the game. The only reason you won is because of a miracle fumble. We were already at the 30 at that point in the game, we would’ve either scored a touchdown or a field goal, and ended the game right there and then. Nonetheless, I still think that Texas A&M is a very good team that deserves to be in the top 10, with A&M being 10 and Florida being 9 in my opinion, and Cincinnati and North Carolina to be out of the top 10 cause they’re definitely overrated.
The way we are playing, we don’t deserve even 15. May be 21
My razorbacks got robbed. But compared to the last few years. I’m still very hopefull for the team. But arkansas will beat LSU this season
I would have put FL at 12 or 13, but seeing NC up that high?? Wow..
An yeah NC and Cincinnati have no place being that high. I would argue that Notre Dame is also criminally overrated (I mean they struggled against FSU). I would place all those 3 teams behind UF and A&M.
Remember, if you somehow beat the lopsided referees, and give alabama a good game, your cheating according to Nick Saben.
What a strange season….The Big Fourteen have 5 teams in the top 25, and none one those weak sisters has even played a game.