Lose to a Division I-AA Team, get your ass kicked in the AP Poll:
NEW YORK (AP) — Thud!
The final fallout from a disastrous opening weekend for Michigan came Tuesday, when the Wolverines dropped all the way out of The Associated Press Top 25, an unprecedented fall from No. 5 to unranked.
Since the AP poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989, no team has taken a bigger tumble in one week.
After an opening college football weekend filled with blowouts and highlighted by Appalachian State’s stunning 34-32 upset of Michigan at the Big House, there was little notable movement in the Top 25 other than the Wolverines.
Meanwhile, Ohio State, despite a decisive win on Saturday, actually fell Saturday from No. 11 to No. 12. And Rutgers rose up one to No. 15.
And the USA Today poll wasn’t any kinder:
Three days after Michigan’s upset-for-the-ages loss to Appalachian State, the Wolverines took an unprecedented fall from the polls Tuesday.
The onetime Big Ten Conference favorites tumbled from fifth in the USA TODAY coaches’ and Associated Press media preseason rankings to completely out of college football’s top 25. Never before had a team entering a season that high taken a single week to disappear from either poll.
It’s the biggest first-week hit to any top-10 team since 1995, when Notre Dame opened at No. 8 in the coaches’ poll, promptly lost to Northwestern and fell from the rankings.
And, again, Ohio State actually fell one place in the rankings while Rutgers stays at No. 16. Okay, admittedly, other than the Wolverines bitting the big one, there really wasn’t much reason for the Top 25 to change, and nobody really expected Youngstown State to beat the Buckeyes, or Buffalo to beat Rutgers.
Still, some respect would be nice.
