Coaches Poll Week 4: SEC lands 5 teams in latest top 25
The latest Coaches Poll is out and the SEC team has 5 teams. Last week’s poll also featured 5 conference teams, with 7 others receiving votes.
The SEC began conference play in Week 3, but two of the most talked about games featured nonconference opponents. Mizzou took down a ranked Kansas State squad in walk-off fashion thanks to an SEC record 61-yard field goal. Alabama faced USF in what was supposed to be a get-right game, but the Crimson Tide managed just a 17-3 victory over the Bulls.
The division standing watch began with the introduction of conference play. LSU dominated Mississippi State with a 41-14 win in Starkville. In the SEC East, Florida upset a ranked Tennessee squad 29-16. South Carolina had Georgia on upset watch, but the Bulldogs scored all 21 points of the second half to win 24-14.
Rankings wise, the top 8 remained the same, with Georgia at No. 1. Alabama and Tennessee dropped, while LSU and Ole Miss moved up. Six SEC teams were among those receiving votes. Vanderbilt, South Carolina and Mississippi State did not receive votes after their Week 3 losses.
Here’s a look at the USA Today Coaches Poll following Week 3:
1 Georgia
2 Michigan
3 Florida State
4 Ohio State
5 USC
6 Texas
7 Penn State
8 Washington
9 Notre Dame
10 Utah
11 Oregon
12 Alabama
13 LSU
14 Oklahoma
15 Oregon State
16 Ole Miss
17 North Carolina
18 Duke
19 Colorado
20 Tennessee
21 Miami
22 Iowa
23 Clemson
24 Washington State
25 UCLA
Dropped out:
No. 15 Kansas State
Others receiving votes:
Kansas State 114; Missouri 44; Fresno State 43; Florida 41; Kentucky 28; Texas Christian 26; Maryland 19; Kansas 17; Auburn 16; Texas A&M 11; Syracuse 10; Air Force 9; Tulane 7; Central Florida 5; Wyoming 3; Ohio 3; James Madison 3; Wake Forest 2; Louisville 2; Memphis 1; Brigham Young 1; Arkansas 1.
clemson, tennessee and bama being ranked but florida not doesn’t really make sense to me. toughest first 3 games of any team in america, a competitive loss to a top 10 team on the road and a blowout win over a top 15 team. meanwhile tennessee hasn’t beaten anyone with a pulse and got thumped by uf, clemson got destroyed by duke and bama got handled by ut and has looked horrific overall
LSU lost to a team ranked lower than Utah and hasn’t beat a team ranked like TN, so it doesn’t really make sense at all, but it will work it’s self out in time.
LSU lost to a team ranked third in the country. Utah is 10th. I hope that helps.
Lsu got throttled by a FSU team by 3 or more TOUCHDOWNS. LsU was the number 5 team and looked as if they didn’t look as if the deserved to be on the same field. FSU TOTALLY DOMINATED THAT LSU TEAM IN,THE SECOND HALF. THEY BEAT A CUPCAKE AND ANOTER CUPCAKE IN MISS ST. They lost to FSU by one last year. Enjoy your ranking. You don’t want know more of FSU . BC made more of a game with FSU than LSU did. How sad is that.
You don’t understand the game, but I like your passion. Good for you.
Tennessee being ranked is comical …
As a Gator fan and current student: I do not think we should be ranked. However, UT should definitely not be ranked after being embarrassed last night.
This list just reaffirms that the poll is filled out by coaches too busy to watch the games or their communications directors.
FL should be ranked, but, yes, it will all work its self out in time.
Good win for the Gators.
So UGA fans will get to say we beat a ranked Florida team by the time UGA-Florida game has been played out.
You all were not competitive against Utah….come on man. I don’t know about being ranked or not. I’m just saying please don’t spin that game. They easily defeated you with all their star players out.
That’s true, but neither was LSU in their lose. Honestly only GA really deserves to be ranked right now.
This is the Coaches Poll. Coaches are supposed to be doing the job correctly to justify the ranking they have been given to them by the voters. Give it more time to sort this out. Team ranking is something else.
Sorry but I don’t think UF should be ranked. Look how far UT fell, and the writing was on the wall that UT was not as good as last year. Yes it’s a great program win for UF and hopefully signals an improved year than what everyone predicted, but at the end of the day, we were NOWHERE close to being ranked before that game. It is just one game. Had the win been over a top 5 team, I would think differently but we need to post wins against the gimmie next week and then show up and represent against Kentucky before I think we’ve shown enough to be ranked.
It is still early in the season, and the rankings are just starting to sort themselves out from what we saw as preseason, to what reality actually looks like.
I suppose in the likely event Kentucky beats Vandy the win will not help Kentucky get ranked by any poll, since going 3-0 in (mostly) dominant fashion did not do it.
TN is definitely not as good as advertised. Very overrated! Good job to the Gators and smacked TN all throughout the game. Bama is definitely not a top 5 team year as of right now. KY is 3-0 but have not played anybody and have not look outstanding with sub-par teams. GA is the team to beat in the East and second is up for grabs and not a clear leader in that respects as of yet but Florida definitely showed promise by waxing TN. LSU is the team to beat in the West.
I still wouldn’t sleep in Bama. Not yet at least.