SEC Rules: Conference Sets Record with 10 Teams in AP Top 25
The Southeastern Conference has a record 10 teams ranked in the first Associated Press college football poll of the regular season.
Ohio State remained a unanimous No. 1 after pulling away 42-24 at Virginia Tech on Monday night.
The SEC already held the record for most teams from one conference in the Top 25 with eight, a mark it matched in the preseason. After the conference went 12-1 to open the season, No. 16 Texas A&M and No. 25 Mississippi State moved into the poll to go with the eight teams already there.
Alabama moved up a spot to No. 2. The rest of the SEC roll call is: No. 6 Auburn, No. 10 Georgia, No. 14 LSU, No. 17 Mississippi, No. 18 Arkansas, No. 20 Missouri and No. 23 Tennessee.
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
Record | Pts | Pv | |
1. Ohio St. (61) | 1-0 | 1,525 | 1 |
2. Alabama | 1-0 | 1,420 | 3 |
3. TCU | 1-0 | 1,365 | 2 |
4. Baylor | 1-0 | 1,252 | 4 |
5. Michigan St. | 1-0 | 1,198 | 5 |
6. Auburn | 1-0 | 1,166 | 6 |
7. Oregon | 1-0 | 1,081 | 7 |
8. Southern Cal | 1-0 | 1,074 | 8 |
9. Notre Dame | 1-0 | 1,061 | 11 |
10. Georgia | 1-0 | 981 | 9 |
11. Florida St. | 1-0 | 942 | 10 |
12. Clemson | 1-0 | 862 | 12 |
13. UCLA | 1-0 | 833 | 13 |
14. LSU | 0-0 | 653 | 14 |
15. Georgia Tech | 1-0 | 636 | 16 |
16. Texas A&M | 1-0 | 629 | NR |
17. Mississippi | 1-0 | 600 | 17 |
18. Arkansas | 1-0 | 480 | 18 |
19. Oklahoma | 1-0 | 469 | 19 |
20. Boise St. | 1-0 | 279 | 23 |
21. Missouri | 1-0 | 274 | 24 |
22. Arizona | 1-0 | 259 | 22 |
23. Tennessee | 1-0 | 169 | 25 |
24. Utah | 1-0 | 137 | NR |
25. Mississippi St. | 1-0 | 104 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 79, BYU 74, Northwestern 72, Arizona St. 49, Oklahoma St. 30, West Virginia 23, Florida 8, Temple 8, Cincinnati 7, Kansas St. 7, Minnesota 5, Louisville 4, NC State 4, W. Kentucky 3, California 2, Stanford 1.
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