When we have huge weeks of landscape in university football, the updated ranking can be among the most difficult to settle. Because even if the first weeks have a few simple movements of winners and the losers fall, this point of the season brings enough complications for the head-to-head results to begin to confront and creates a puzzle for the voters of the AP TOP 25 survey.
In fact, according to CBS Sports Research, week 5 was the first time that more than three teams AP top-five lost this start to the season since 2008. The defeats for Penn State No. 3, LSU No. 4 and Georgia No. 5 opened the top of the ranking, allowing winners like Oregon and Ole Miss to make major movements at the top of the ballot.
Alabama will certainly be increasing after defeating Georgia in Athens, recording a victory that solidifies the crimson tide as a legitimate threat to win the dry. But while this victory could, in theory, make Alabama the best classified team, the profile is also assigned by the fact that their loss came to Florida State, who will fall into the ranking after losing in Virginia.
Voters must also fight with how ready to penalize Penn State after losing at home against Oregon in two hours, as well as if they are comfortable keeping Ohio State as a team No. 1 of the country by considering the impressive victory on the Ducks road to Happy Valley. There were 55 AP voters who had Ohio State in the front row last week, and there was not too much to complain about the way Buckeyes won two figures against Washington in Seattle, but the declaration made by the Dan Lanning team on Saturday evening on a large scene will be launched a debate which should be reflected in a more balanced dispersion of votes in first place.
Here is how we project the new top 25 AP to find out after week 5:
1. Ohio State (last week – 1): A dominant defensive performance stimulated the victory of 24-6 Buckeyes in Washington. While Julian Sayin and the Ohio State offensive might not have set up large figures, it was a match that team No. 1 seemed happy to win by any margin because it was their first road trial of the season.
2. Oregon (6): As we mentioned earlier, there will be a solid collection of first -place votes for Oregon which will create a great debate concerning the country’s n ° 1 team after the double prolongation victory of the Ducks at Penn State. The inertia of voters and survey could prevent the exchange from occurring this week – or even next week since the Ducks are disabled – but this is about to become a weekly debate until the Bucks or the Ducks take their first defeat of the season.
3. Miami (2): The Hurricanes were underway in week 5 and will be back in action next week against the state of Florida.
4. Ole Miss (13): The Pic Poll de Lane Kiffin with Ole Miss was n ° 5 last September, and the program has not been higher than since 2015. All these benchmarks have been on the table after the rebels managed the business against LSU in a game that Ole Miss checked a little more than the final score 24-19 could indicate.
5 .28 (7): The Sooners had left in week 5 and will be back in action next week against Kent State.
6. Texas A & M (9): Now at 4-0 for the first time since 2016, Texas A&M supported its declaration in declaration against Notre Dame in week 3 with a difficult victory against Auburn. The 16-10 result demanded that the defense of the AGGIES delivered in what was one of their best games of the season, while Le’Veon Moss did the hard work offensively on the field with a career record of 139 yards on the ground.
7. Penn State (3): We do not plan a major fall for Nittany Lions after a double extension defeat for a team that many voters will consider the best in the country. Penn State obtains the merit of having ruled a deficit to force overtime, but it will end a few quality victories to go up in the top five.
8. Texas (10): Longhorns were underway in week 5 and will be back in action next week against Florida.
9. Indiana (11): You can call it a disappointment, a hangover or a trap game, but the Hoosiers are always 5-0 after entering and out of the Kinnick stadium with a victory. Iowa has played the match on their conditions and even had a chance to take the lead late, but it was Fernando Mendoza and the defense of Indiana who came late to keep the unbeaten hosiers.
10. Texas Tech (12): The Red Raiders had left in week 5 and will be back in action next week in Houston.
11. Alabama (17): This is a complex profile for voters to analyze when they fill their ballots. On the one hand, we just watched Alabama enter Athens and win against a team of Georgia that was previously in the top five. But it is always a team with a loss with a defeat at Florida State, who will drop in the ranking after losing against unopenable Virginia. The ceiling is so that the Alabama is around n ° 8, while it is probably the ground just outside the Top 10.
12. Georgia (5): Bulldogs have a fairly easy adjustment in the ranking for many voters. With a victory against Tennessee and a defeat against Alabama, Georgia will be located in the edge of the Top 10 at No. 14 or N ° 15 after falling 24-21 at the house at the crimson tide.
13. Iowa state (14): Out of a week, the state of the Iowa returned to the refreshing action and jumped throughout the Arizona early with an advance of 22-0, he defended the rest of the path in a comfortable home victory. Cyclones are now 5-0 over the year and many in the mix for the title Big 12 and a place in the playoffs of university football.
14. Vanderbilt (18): The commodores are 5-0 for the first time since 2008 after a 55-35 victory against the state of Utah which saw Diego Pavia in total six affected and the offensive marks more than 40 points for the fourth time this season. The next one is a revenge match of last year’s classic against Alabama, this time in Tuscaloosa.
15. Tennessee (15): Caught in an absolute dog fight with the state of the Mississippi in Starkville, the flights obtained a touch of match in the regulation of the quarter Joey Aguilar, then a defensive judgment winning in overtime to escape with a victory and improve at 4-1 this season. The game included seven changes in mind and 75 points in total before it is said and done, but thefts pass to October with a respectable curriculum vitae with regard to the classification.
16. Georgia Tech (16): Do not be surprised if the Yellow Jackets abandon a place or two in the ranking after needing extensions to escape Winston-Salem with a 30-29 victory against Wake Forest. It is not only that the margin was closer than expected, Brent Key’s team followed 20-3 in the third quarter before turning things around. It was a big stage game in the list of first which obtained a lot of “alert alert” buzz so that the voters could hit Georgia Tech sufficiently on their ballots for some minor adjustments in the consensual classification.
17. LSU (4): The LSU drop could be aggressive since the Tigers CV took a hit with the regression of Clemson. Leaving the week 1, this victory in the other Valley Death looked like one of the best victories without conference of the season, but now it is the offensive difficulties that are the main scenario and a 20-10 victory against Florida the best victory on the profile.
18. Missouri (20): There should not be too much adjustment after the Missouri victory against Umass, although now at 5-0, there is an argument that tigers are ready to be compared to the other undefeated teams of the survey.
19. Florida State (8): The victory against the Alabama will help to cushion the fall in Florida state after losing against Virginia not classified on the road in double extension Friday evening. The placement of the seminoles differs considerably from a bubble of voting, but in consensus, it seems to be a reasonable place for the Mike Norvell team to land after the upset loss.
20. Illinois (23): Illini fights have now have five victories against teams classified by AP since the start of last season after having removed the USC with a basket on foot to win 34-32. It was not the best game for Illinois, but it required real perseverance. At 4-1, with only a defeat for Indiana, Illini is about to see a positive rebound in last week’s decline in the ranking.
21. Michigan (19): The Wolverines had left in week 5 and will be back in action next week against Wisconsin.
22. Notre Dame (22): We could be online for a series of unbalanced results from Notre Dame if the Fighting Irish wanted to make it work on opponents in the same way as last season when their future in the playoffs was suspended each week. Notre Dame was on the wrong side of the turnover battle during its 56-13 victory against Arkansas, but voters should prepare for a slow climb in the ranking if this performance is a glimpse of what awaits us in the coming weeks.
23. Byu (25): Cougars were late against Colorado. But did a good job by responding, upgrading the Buffs 21-7 in the last three quarters of the match to win 24-21 and improve at 4-0 this season.
24. Utah (NR): The UTES were rebounded by the classification after the two-digit defeat against Texas Tech at home two weeks ago, but a 48-14 battery of Virginia-Western on the road to Morgantown should provide enough evidence to move them from the 29th in the Top 25.
25. Memphis (NR): The flap of the Arkansas put Memphis on the map for the top 25 AP voters, and the tigers registered in the 31st part last week. Beating FAU does not stimulate their stock as much as the simple fact of being 5-0 with a victory against a team of the dry, but the result with a strong score against the OWLS will certainly not hurt.
Scheduled to abandon the ranking: N ° 21 USC, n ° 24 TCU
