This week’s Associated Press and USA Today College Football polls are out, and, while there’s been little change at the top from last week, there have been some changes.
First, in the Associated Press poll:
NEW YORK (AP) — LSU is closing in on Southern California in the AP Top 25, and Appalachian State is getting some recognition — but not a ranking.
After a surprisingly easy and thoroughly impressive victory over Virginia Tech, No. 2 LSU took 19 first-place votes from No. 1 USC in the AP Top 25 released Sunday.
The Trojans were idle Saturday while the Tigers routed the Hokies 48-7 in Death Valley. USC received 40 first-place votes from the media panel, down from 59 last week, and 1,619 points.
LSU received 25 first-place votes and 1,582 points.
Ohio State, in the meantime, moved up from No. 12 last week to No. 10 this week, and Rutgers moved up from No. 15 last week. And, Appalachian State finally got some recognition for it’s routing of Michigan:
Appalachian State, a week after pulling off a stunning upset at Michigan, received 19 points, not nearly enough to be ranked but it got a spot between Auburn (23 points) and Cincinnati (12 points) in the list of others receiving votes.
The Mountaineers, who play in Division I’s Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA), became eligible for the Top 25 when The Associated Press changed it policy last week to allow voters to vote for teams from all divisions of college football.
Appalachian State appeared on four ballots and got a 13th-place vote from Dave Goren of WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Wolverines, meanwhile, received not a single vote in the A.P. Poll.
Over at USA Today, the rankings weren’t all the different. USC and LSU are in a close battle at the top. Ohio State moved into the Top 10 for the first time this season, and Rutgers is at No. 13.
The only difference between the two polls, is that it doesn’t appear that Appy State got a single vote in the USA Today Poll. Then again, they might not have been eligible.
Two weeks in, this is already shaping up to be a very interesting autumn.
