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Associated Press Top 25 voters have it easy this week. Due to scheduled bye weeks, postponements and cancelations, almost half of the AP Top 25 was off (12 teams) on Saturday. It doesn’t look like voters will need to make many changes for the new poll.
At the time of this projection, no ranked teams lost. No. 19 SMU, however, trails Tulsa 28-24. Tulsa was already knocking on the door of being ranked as one of the higher teams in the “others receiving votes” pool. Assuming Tulsa holds on to get the W, we project the Golden Hurricane to get into the Top 25 with SMU dropping out.
Here’s how we project the new AP Top 25:
- Alabama (6-0), did not play
- Notre Dame (8-0) def. Boston College, 45-31
- Ohio State (3-0), did not play
- Clemson (7-1), did not play
- Texas A&M (5-1), did not play
- Florida (5-1) def. Arkansas, 63-35
- Cincinnati (7-0) def. ECU, 55-17
- BYU (8-0), did not play
- Miami (7-1) def. Virginia Tech, 25-24
- Indiana (4-0) def. Michigan State, 24-0
- Oregon (1-0) leads Washington State, 36-29 4Q
- Georgia (4-2), did not play
- Wisconsin (1-0) leads Michigan, 42-11 4Q
- Oklahoma State (5-1), did not play
- Coastal Carolina (7-0), did not play
- Marshall (7-0) def. Middle Tennessee, 42-14
- Iowa State (5-2), did not play
- Oklahoma (5-2), did not play
- USC (2-0) def. Arizona, 34-30
- Texas (5-2), did not play
- Liberty (8-0) def. Western Carolina, 58-14
- Northwestern (4-0) def. Purdue, 27-20
- Auburn (4-2), did not play
- Louisiana (7-1) def. South Alabama, 38-10
- Tulsa (3-1) leads No. 19 SMU, 28-24 4Q
Projected to drop out of the AP Top 25: No. 19 SMU (7-1) trails Tulsa, 28-24 4Q
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