AP Poll Week 3: 7 SEC teams ranked in Top 25
Saturday’s Week 3 action was a mixed bag for top teams. Alabama and Georgia steamrolled lesser opponents. Notre Dame, meanwhile, barely escaped with a win over Toledo.
Also, Ohio State fell, and that caused a shakeup in this week’s AP Poll. Yes, Alabama and Georgia are still No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, but there were some changes behind that.
A total of 7 SEC teams made the top 25, with Texas A&M taking a bit of a tumble after a narrow win at Colorado.
Check out the full AP top 25 rankings here:
Week 3 AP Poll
#1 Alabama
#2 Georgia
#3 Oklahoma
#4 Oregon
#5 Iowa
#6 Clemson
#7 Texas A&M
#8 Cincinnati
#9 Ohio State
#10 Penn State
#11 Florida
#12 Notre Dame
#13 UCLA
#14 Iowa State
#15 Virginia Tech
#16 Coastal Carolina
#17 Ole Miss
#18 Wisconsin
#19 Arizona State
#20 Arkansas
#21 North Carolina
#22 Auburn
#23 BYU
#24 Miami
#25 Michigan
Also receiving votes:
UCF 111, TCU 103, Liberty 52, Michigan State 44, USC 39, Indiana 34, LSU 31, Kansas State 30, Nevada 28, Oklahoma State 27, Texas 23, Maryland 14, Pittsburgh 13, Kentucky 13, Stanford 10, Utah 9, Boston College 8, Arizona 6, Texas Tech 2, Fresno State 2, Toledo 2, Army 1
I like it, seems fair for the moment but boy they either don’t like Kentucky or are that low on Missouri.
They dont like us, they never do. We never get the respect. UK is better than serval teams in the top 25, and even the ones receiving votes ahead of them. You could probably make a case for two of them, but thats about it
I will say Miami has no business being ranked if you don’t rank Kentucky. I mean that’s just ridiculous.
Definitely
Ky is one of those programs that has to prove it. If you guys win the next two against Chattanooga and SC you’ll be ranked when you play Florida
You nailed it
We made it into the ESPN and coaches poll, just barely. Need to put up 60+ on Chattanooga.
I know, right?
But I’d rather we remain disrespected until after we play Florida. If we win, fine, we’ve earned it then and would not be sneaking up on anybody after that anyways. Being 5-0 with 3 SEC wins at that point would easily justify a tidy ranking.
AP has Kentucky 39th…..just reading from the poll.
Maybe. I wouldn’t be surprised if we aren’t though.
Polls have to spread the wealth to keep interest.
The formula is to make sure all conferences have representation. They try to ensure 3 teams from each P5 is ranked unless it’s obvious.
So, this is how Miami gets ranked at Kentucky expense.
No integrity.
Pollsters reward teams for playing tough OOC schedules which Miami has this season.
Good point.
You have to be in the poll first…
What’s there to reward? They got destroyed by Alabama, and barely squeaked by the powerhouse that is APP State. Miami has zero business being ranked.
Miami got to start ranked 12th or 13th whatever it was, which kept them in the poll. But did not get hit as bad as you would think for ekeing out a win.
Unfortunately polls are not immune to being influenced by things other than playing results. Look no further than Notre Dame as an example. They had to score 18 points in the 4th quarter to escape with a 3 point win against national firepower Toledo. The top 12th team in the country? I think not.
And remember, upcoming scheduled national games have quite an influence on rankings, as the higher the ranking, the more popular the matchup becomes, and more money is made. And round and round we go…..
I expected KY to be in top 25 especially above Miami. That’s one thing but only giving them 13 votes less than Mich st, Maryland, Ok St, Tex, K State and Indiana is downright disrespectful.
ND also need OT to beat FSU which is a shell of its former self and probably the 5th or 6th best team in the state of Florida.
Good point on Norte Dame. Their quality win against FSU, doesn’t look so good after FSU failed to beat a FCS team
that’s a bad take. the ap and coaches poll aren’t the release/result of a group with a single mission, but rather it’s a collection of individuals with independent opinions. there’s absolutely zero intent to spread interest, but rather the polls are the collective release of various, independent opinions forming a single, recognized result. for example, it wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone for a coach or a media member from CA to give more credit and a higher ranking to a team from the west coast than say a coach or media member from the southeast…..and vice versa.
Awful. The profession gets worse and worse with each passing year. In no parallel universe would KY be left out of top 25.
Surprised Kentucky isn’t in the to 25 while frauds like UNC and Miami are still hanging in there.
Arkansas is ranked wayyyyy too low IMO.
I think Arkansas’ ranking is fair for the moment. If they continue to win they will continue to climb. It’s only the week 3 poll.
I agree completely with that. If the Razorbacks continue to win, they will continue to climb. But one thing about teams that have been absent from the polls for a significant time, one uh-oh and “poof” they vanish from the polls.
Agreed. I think the Hogs are at a fair ranking. Let them get a couple more wins under their belt and they’ll be in the top 15 shortly. And let them nail a couple more big wins and they could very well crack the top 10.
Yeah, I think that ranking is more than fair. Proud of our team this Saturday, but it’s still early in the season, and we have a brutal season ahead.
Iowa at 5?
They have two ranked wins, they deserve to be in the top 5 arguably over Oklahoma too.
1. Bama
2. UGA
3. Oregon
4. Iowa
5. Penn State
6. Cincinnati
7. Florida
8. UCLA
9. Oklahoma
10. Virginia Tech
If we really are being fair…
I guess but Iowa beat a now unranked Indiana and beat an ISU team whose only win was against UNI 16-10.
They were still impressive wins. I’m as suspect as anyone but based on 2 weeks… I’m ok with it. They earned it (for now)
i’m very suspect of the indiana win deserving to carry any weight. since we’re just 2-3 wks in as you said, i think more weight should be placed on road and neutral site wins.
Florida at 7 after dominating performances against USF and FAU. What a joke
First of all, Ohio State has place being ahead of Penn State and Florida, and arguably also UCLA. Get Notre Dame outside of the top 15, they are at best a peripheral top 20 team. Also I really do wonder why they don’t want the Bama-Florida game to be a top 10 match up. It’s almost as if the game being a top 10 matchup wouldn’t generate hundreds of thousands of more $.
The only explanation is just pure hatred and bias against the Florida Gators by most of the AP Pollsters. If they wanted OSU so badly in the top 10, and were convinced Bama will beat Florida, then they may have just placed Florida in the top 10 and then dropped them behind OSU once they lost to Bama. If Florida loses to Bama by a TD, and OSU lost to Oregon by a TD, why should Florida be ranked behind OSU??? AP Pollsters are truly the most disgusting people in sports media.
This is silly. You’re delusional if you think voters base their rankings on bias and hatred. That’s high school garbage
All 65 of them have a zoom call on Sunday morning to agree on how to screw the gators.
Best post.
Impossible to collude enough voters to skew the poll for politics, conference balance, dislike of a specific team, etc.
The polls are nothing more than a mathematical average of many varied voter’s opinions. While they each have their own biases, it would be impossible to align all biases.
I was on that call with them this morning. And true, it was all about Gator hatred. It is now confirmed!
Negan is on that call too I hear.
Not all but on average more often than not journalist hate Florida and that’s because most of them grew up during a time period when the University of Florida dominated collegiate athletics. And statistically Florida is the most underrated college program in AP Poll history. Not my words.
okay, let’s entertain this theory. how long has uf dominated collegiate athletics? fair to say that you’re suggesting that they’ve ‘dominated’ all sports since about 1995
?1st football title, 1996. 1st b-ball title 2006. 1st baseball title, 2017. uf has certainly been successful in collegiate sports beyond the big three, but that reign didn’t start until the late ’90s…at the earliest. u can thank foley for that. why he doesn’t have a couple statues in gainesville is beyond me.
back to your statement that journalist hate uf b/c they grew up during a time that they’ve ‘dominated,’ is ridiculously unsupported. any journalist over 45…yes 45…grew up watching uf has a middle of the pack school. further, any 20 something journalist certainly has a greater memory of the 2010s then the 2000s, of which uf has certainly not dominated fb or b-ball since 2010.
If they were 45, that means they were in college when UF dominated college football in the 1990s. If they are in their 30s, which a significant chunk of them are, they went to college during a time when UF dominated both basketball and football. It’s not unreasonable to say that many of them hated UF when they were in college or cause they grew up watching UF manhandle their favorite teams, and now that hatred slowly trickles into their polling and journalist “takes” etc. It would not surprise me one bit if the same level of animosity is directed towards Alabama by journalists that have gone to college during or are growing up watching a CFB world dominated by Bama. Ten years from now we may see the same inherent bias against what I’m assuming to be a infinitely inferior Bama program without Saban, the same way journalists now hate on UF.
Question if UF beats Alabama don’t they rightfully deserve to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll and Coaches Poll. I would really appreciate your opinion on this. Coaches may give it to UF, the Coaches poll has always been more favorable to us, but you and I both know UF isn’t eclipsing UGA, Oregon, and Oklahoma in the polls EVEN if they beat Alabama. So tell me where you think UF should rank if they connivingly beat Bama the same way Oregon beat OSU, and where you think the AP Poll will actually rank them if Florida does indeed beat Bama.
That’s truly a hypothetical that could go in a number of directions. As long as bama didn’t give the game away, uf could make a claim to be the new #1, but whether it’d be accepted by the voters would likely depend on the eye test, as well as how other teams looked that wknd. I recognize that no other team would have a greater resume building win for the wknd, but again, the numerous hypotheticals of other outcomes, team performances, etc. would likely be considered by the voters.
What I will say right now…without hypotheticals and with actual outcomes, bama deserves to be #1. curious to see how healthy they are on sat….while also curious to see how healthy richardson will be.
Are you serious right now? Florida has given up 14 and 20 points to inferior competition with a 21.5 point margin of victory. You’re avging 2 picks a game against nobodies. Are you really complaining about being #11? If anything Florida is overrated here.
If you watched the games you would know the points and score were really inconsequential. UF D rotated everybody and absolutely beat the piss out of both of them.
Exactly. It was Florida 28 FAU 0 with 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter. It was Florida 35 USF 3 by half time. In both those games, half the points that were scored were scored cause EJ threw picks that allowed the opponent offense to begin their drive on our own endzone against our 3rd string defense no less.
I did watch the games and I hear what you’re saying. I’m not saying Florida shouldn’t be ranked, I’m just saying they are ranked too high in my opinion so I don’t understand why Imperial sees a conspiracy because Florida is ranked #11 instead of higher. I think that is a very generous ranking and I don’t see a legitimate argument for being a Top10 team right now.
So you’re telling me that a Clemson team with zero offense, a TAMU team without a QB whom it took 4 full quarters to score a TD on Colorado, and an OSU team with zero defense, two of these teams of which have 1 loss btw, deserve to be higher than Florida? Clemson and OSU lost a game, in pretty convincing fashion might I add. If they want to get back in the top 10 they should prove it. You and I very well know that even if Florida loses to Bama let’s say 30-23, they’ll probably drop to the middle teens, while OSU and Clemson that lost to arguably inferior teams to Bama remain much higher ranked. You see how unfair it is. You lose you go down and you climb your back up. In Week 2, you shouldn’t remain in the top 10 when you already have a loss, especially cause you have an entire season ahead of you to redeem yourself.
What has Florida done to stand out from the pack? You haven’t played anyone to any level of dominance to suggest you should be in the top10. Auburn played nobodies too and absolutely dominated like an SEC team should but we are content with 22 for now because that’s fair based on the level of competition to the performance. I’m not going to debate which other teams should be ahead or behind you guys, but I am going to stand by the fact that Florida has not earned that #11 spot, much less a top10 spot, so I just don’t see what you are complaining about. That ranking gives Florida a large benefit of the doubt regardless of other teams in contention.
Clemson should not be ranked in the top 15 after that performance vs. the Dawgs. No Clemson in the Playoffs this year…one more loss and they are done.
“AP Pollsters are truly the most disgusting people in sports media”
This sentiment and your entire comment are quite crazy. Their is no conspiracy or concerted bias.
Jeez, ease off on the drama throttle, big guy. UF hasn’t even played a P5 team yet. No. 11 is not bad at this stage. It’s all subjective, and you may be the most biased guy in the room. Win Saturday and you’re in the top four, problem solved. All you have to do is beat Bama . . .
Yeah, easy and simple. All they have to do is beat Alabama and then get plenty of respect. Nothing to it!
Negan 2.0
“The only explanation is just pure hatred and bias against the Florida Gators”
Duly noted Karen. Maybe try the decaf.
This is a poll of sportswriters not some commission trying to setup matches. There is no collusion to put one team here and another there. Just their opinions as to where they think teams are relative to each other. Highly subjective and meaningless.
#20 Arkansas – welcome aboard.
#22 Auburn @ #10 Penn State – Good luck Aubie.
#1 Alabama @ #11 Florida – Game of the week.
Yep its been basically scrimmages for AU so far. Saturday will be a real test. Not feeling warm and fuzzy about Nix on the road with a huge Penn State crowd but we shall see.
Baia-Florida should be a real limos test of the quality of these two teams.
Looking forward to this one.
*Bama, LOL
*litmus
As bad as Miami is looking, this will be our first real test.
Proud of our players and coaches, this has been along time coming.
Something that hasn’t been mentioned, or I didn’t see it, but back a few decades ago, the Texas-Arkansas game was always one of the season’s best matchups, and with Texas now coming to the SEC, it will rekindle that old rivalry, and everyone wins as a result. Something for everyone to look forward to watching.
well, more than a few decades….maybe double that!
First time the Hogs have been ranked since 2016. What an incredible job Sam Pittman is doing.
I just comprehended that Arkansas is ranked. I’m happy for the hogs. They really deserve this. But I’m also a little intimidated because I believe we play them this year. And I don’t wanna lose that game among all the games that we could lose.
We play them every year. This year we’re on the road.
Aubie wishing right now they had an editor feature here. Yeah, you play for sure…at Fayetteville and I expect it might be a sellout again.
We haven’t forgotten the screwing we got last year. Oh yeah, it’ll be a sellout.
“But I’m also a little intimidated because I believe we play them this year.”
LMAO…
Lmao, priceless
Comment stalker…
You’re like 10 aren’t you? I mean you’re an Auburn fan that doesn’t know that Arkansas is in your teams division and play every season?
What an idiot you are…
Easy on her btime she thinks Bama and ga are still rivalries
@BT, you seem to find comfort in life by calling out other users on a virtual website. Cool.
@Dawg, “Easy on her” According the BT that statement is s3xist…
I enjoy calling out someone who shows up trying to do the same but is typically wrong… Remember the article where I posted about SB being boo’d? You should up trying to call me out however your Dumb@$$ was wrong as usual…
He may no know if you’re a He or She.. I had already told you I was not a woman yet you continued to try and use calling me a woman as an insult which is se$!st. It was pointed out by other users as well not just me… So maybe you should STFU since you already look like a fool.
You’re such a dumb@$$ and a liar..
If I look like a “fool”, you’re the equivalent of 10x that. They’ll have to invent a word just for you.
Oh man that was
Good… You coming back with “I’m rubber, you’re glue “ next?
LMAO… You’re such a dumb@$&.
That was a weakazz response. I don’t know why I ever expect anything different.
A weak response is not knowing your team plays Arkansas every year..
“re·sponse” – a reaction to something.
“an extended, jazzy piano solo drew the biggest response from the crowd”
Since you keep clinging to it, yes, that’s my bad about Auburn and Arkansas.
Right… you posted a response to the article. In your response it’s clear you don’t know Auburn plays Arkansas every year..
You are really stupid…
I never said that Arkansas doesn’t play Auburn in my response…
Boy you’re something else.
“But I’m also a little intimidated because I believe we play them this year.”
That’s clear that you don’t realize you play them every year as multiple users have pointed out…
That’s not a response buddy. That’s the original post.
That’s a response to the article you ignorant dumb&$$…
LMAO… you even posted part of the definition yet you still don’t get it…
A response on this page is when someone clicks the reply button and types something. I don’t count commenting an original post as “a response.”
This is just too much. I don’t even have popcorn to enjoy this with.
I’m just embarrassed he has an AU logo next to his name.
Just because you’re a dumb@$$ and doesn’t understand what a response is doesn’t make you right…
Just making up your own meaning now? LMAO… You can’t be that stupid…
@smokeone…. he is beyond stupid.. I just keep screwing with him and his posts just get worse …
He’s talking about you as well. You’re too dumb to figure that out.
No I’m talking about you and you alone Aubie.
Okay… acknowledged. If I’m in the wrong then I’ll stop talking.
However I don’t think I’m doing anything he’s not. The difference is I screwed up by saying “I believe” we play Arkansas. Which was admittedly dumb on my part. Otherwise, what’ve I done that he hasn’t mirrored?
You turned an argument about the original point into an argument for what constitutes a ‘response’. Cmon man, what’s the point in that. He’s gonna troll you when you feed it like that. Next time, just acknowledge you were wrong or misinformed and move on.
Fair enough. I’ll do so.
I’m guessing from this read, you’re also just comprehending that we’re in the same division as them.
“well lookie there….they are in our division!”
My fellow Gator fan(s) we are ranked just about were we need to be at #11. We beat Bama this coming Saturday the rankings will take care of itself, we will definitely be in the top ten. We have played 2 teams inferior to the Gators, in which both cases our DB’s did not play well overall if we are honest. There were several poor throws by both teams that could have gone for TD’s but were poorly thrown. Yes they are young and inexperienced but Bama does not care about that, nor our lack of pressure up the middle with our D-line. Our D will need to turn it up a notch or 2 this Saturday. There is no biased against the Gators when it comes to the pollsters. Now placing Notre Dame as high as they are is questionable, as well as leaving Kentucky out of the top 25. In both games we have not put together a full consistent game regardless of how many players that have been rotated in and out of the games. Last but not least if AR-15 is at full strength he needs to get the bulk of the work behind center.
Weird factor #1. Miami ranked, Kentucky not. How can that be. Miami is
is not even top 50.
Weird factor #2. Notre Dame at 12 ?? They can’t be serious, close calls
against really bad FSU, and Toledo? Come on man.
I think the Pope calls in from the Vatican and get’s an override for The Notre Lame ranking. They are the most consistently overrated team of all time.
What is that strange number placed in front of our school name? I think I remember having a number there before, but I don’t remember why because it was so long ago.
A well deserved one. I cheered harder for the hogs than I cheered for Bama. What a great night!
Hopefully you can get used to that number. Trust me, it’s not Petrino’s booking number. **grin**
Clemson, Ohio State, Iowa State all need to pay a steeper price for their losses. Penn State beats The Badgers at home and is rated behind Ohio State? Ole Miss is every bit as good as A&M and the Razorbacks deserve better.
I think the CBS Sports 130 is closer to reality with Kentucky already 23 last week, could bump up 2 spots this week. Will be interesting to see that update tomorrow.
They should be ahead of LSU, Miami, North Carolina, and probably Michigan, at least. Arguably ahead of Auburn, Arkansas – though credit to them for beating Texas – we’ll find out how big a win that really was as the season goes on!
All that said, lots of chances to prove the early rankings right or wrong in the next few weeks, eh? Aren’t us UK fans used to the disrespect by now?
I don’t believe most UGA fans disrespect Kentucky. Always a tough out.
Cats are 39??? What a joke. I guess we wont get ranked unless we beat UF in 3 weeks.
Kentucky is a decent football program now – but it has to live down its history! As the voters vote with memory – not what is current. Here is some food for thought. Last week you were looking at Virginia Tech, NC State and Penn State all being ranked high in the top 25. Kentucky beat all three of them in the last three bowl games they played. How many of the voters even know this???? The
SEC is the baddest of the bad! Go Big Blue!
Can’t believe Notre Dame is still in the top 15