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Last week’s Associated Press Top 25 members won 11 games and lost 13 in Week 6. It’s the second time in the poll’s 78-year history that 13 ranked teams lost in one week.
The one ranked team that didn’t play? Missouri.
The new polls slotted the Tigers at No. 23 (AP) and No. 24 (Coaches) on Sunday as one of seven ranked SEC teams, just two of which are in the SEC East (Georgia). Missouri was No. 24 in the AP and unranked in the Coaches last week after knocking off South Carolina by one point on the road to improve to 4-1.
The Tigers can take control of the SEC East this Saturday by beating Georgia at home and potentially could give Mizzou a two-game lead in the loss column over every team but Kentucky. But if the Bulldogs win, it could get tough for Missouri to return to the Top 25 in a division that’s fast losing respect.
With such turmoil in the Top 25, a win against Georgia would launch Missouri inside the Top 20.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
