AP Top 25: Updated Week 12 poll features 6 SEC teams
The AP Top 25 is out with a new poll. Media members have weighed in on where the teams stand heading into the final 2 weeks of the regular season.
The College Football Playoff selection committee’s rankings will decide the final 4 and the New Year’s Six bowl games. The AP Top 25, though, remains part of the college football world’s larger conversation of where teams deserve to be ranked.
The CFP committee has twice ranked Ohio State No. 1. The AP voters disagree and, aren’t budging.
It’s no surprise that Georgia is once again No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Bulldogs improved to 10-0 with a blowout win over a top-10 Ole Miss team.
Like the Coaches Poll, the AP’s top 8 saw no movement from Weeks 11 to 12. Alabama is still No. 8 in the AP Top 25 after a dominant road win over Kentucky.
Mizzou boosted its New Year’s Six bowl stock with a big win over Tennessee. The Tigers are now just outside the top 10, while the Volunteers saw their ranking plummet.
Here’s the AP Top 25 entering Week 12:
- Georgia
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- Florida State
- Washington
- Oregon
- Texas
- Alabama
- Louisville
- Oregon State
- Missouri
- Penn State
- Ole Miss
- Oklahoma
- LSU
- Utah
- Tulane
- James Madison
- Arizona
- Notre Dame
- Tennessee
- North Carolina
- Kansas State
- Oklahoma State
- Liberty
Others receiving votes:
Iowa 111, Kansas 83, Toledo 51, Fresno St. 13, Southern Cal 5, UNLV 4, SMU 4, NC State 2, Miami (Ohio) 1, Texas A&M 1.