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AP Top 25: Updated Rivalry Week poll features 6 SEC teams
By Andrew Olson
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The AP Top 25 is out with a new poll ahead of Rivalry Week. Media members have weighed in on where the teams stand heading into the final week of the regular season before conference championship games.
The College Football Playoff selection committee’s rankings will decide the final 4 and the New Year’s Six bowl games. AP voters, though, remain part of college football’s larger conversation of where teams deserve to be ranked as the AP Top 25 is the poll of record for much of the season.
In Week 12, we had a consensus No. 1 in the major polls (CFP, AP, Coaches) as Georgia held the top spot. We’re on track for that to be the case in again in Week 13. Like the Coaches Poll, the AP Top 25 is sticking with the Dawgs on top.
The top 8 remains tight as the CFP contenders keep winning. Florida State, though, lost star QB Jordan Travis to injury for the remainder of the season. AP voters did a bit of shuffling, moving Ohio State ahead of Michigan and Washington ahead of FSU.
Here’s the AP Top 25 entering Week 13:
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- Washington
- Florida State
- Oregon
- Texas
- Alabama
- Louisville
- Missouri
- Penn State
- Ole Miss
- Oklahoma
- LSU
- Oregon State
- Arizona
- Notre Dame
- Tulane
- Kansas State
- Iowa
- Oklahoma State
- Liberty
- Toledo
- James Madison
- Tennessee
Others receiving votes:
Utah 69, NC State 66, UNLV 56, SMU 49, North Carolina 26, Clemson 20, Kansas 7, Fresno St. 6, New Mexico St. 3, UCLA 1, Miami (Ohio) 1, Texas A&M 1.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
