AP top 25

[Jerry]

No big surprises. Ohio State moves to #1. Texas, Clemson, and Notre Dame not penalized too badly after losses to top-10 teams. We stay #2:

NCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football Poll

The official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.

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[NittanyLion99]

List of AP voter ballots
Both tOSU affiliated voters and 1 of 2 scUM affiliated voters put PSU @ #3. I hope the PSU affiliated voter is keeping score.

https://imgur.com/md3nXDx

 

[Sheriff Coffee]

Interesting AP today. Several have us ranked #1 but I don't see how we can justify that ranking. Several have us out of the top five. The worst ranking, 9, is from the Cleveland newspaper's college football guy. Of course, this is all meaningless with the playoffs. All will be revealed when we play Oregon in two weeks.

 

[Frank Lee]

Interesting AP today. Several have us ranked #1 but I don't see how we can justify that ranking. Several have us out of the top five. The worst ranking, 9, is from the Cleveland newspaper's college football guy. Of course, this is all meaningless with the playoffs. All will be revealed when we play Oregon in two weeks.

No team has earned #1 at this point. Nothing to go on. OSU over TX? UO over the Pokes?
Also, if the voters are further identified by conference and region, then the stats will reflect the bias. For example, look at Kirk Bohls' (Houston Chonicle & formerly Austin Am Statesman) selections.
Anyone from a former confederate state will vote like they are Paul Finebaum. Most anyone from the upper Midwest will favor legacy big10 teams. It is what it is.
As long as the top six to eight teams in the 12-team playoff are reasonably ranked, then I guess it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[Sheriff Coffee]

No team has earned #1 at this point. Nothing to go on. OSU over TX? UO over the Pokes?
Also, if the voters are further identified by conference and region, then the stats will reflect the bias. For example, look at Kirk Bohls' (Houston Chonicle & formerly Austin Am Statesman) selections.
Anyone from a former confederate state will vote like they are Paul Finebaum. Most anyone from the upper Midwest will favor legacy big10 teams. It is what it is.
As long as the top six to eight teams in the 12-team playoff are reasonably ranked, then I guess it doesn't matter anyway.

I have to say that both Oregon and tOSU have looked pretty good against weak competition. tOSU may have beaten a TX team that is being led by the greatest Heisman front runner fraud since Johnny Manziel. Really, not a lot of conclusions to be drawn yet.