r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • Sep 13 '26
News AP Poll Week 2
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u/Ok_Bug_6890 ECU Pirates Sep 13 '26
Why is Oregon still a top 25 team?
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u/WheatonsGonnaScore Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26
Poll inertia and nothing else
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u/BlazinAzn38 Arizona Wildcats • Colorado State Rams Sep 13 '26
This is why I hate preseason rankings so much
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u/Individual-Lie6525 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
The problem isn’t preseason rankings. Its voters being inflexible early in the season.
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u/TexasDrunkRedditor Texas A&M Aggies • Marching Band Sep 13 '26
It’s also why if you’re going to drop a game it’s better to do it early season than late… people will hardly remember this game by week 10/11. Drop a game late and it’s held against you much harder
Unfortunately not all 11-1 records are held the same based on when that lost occurred
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u/Beautiful_Idea6200 Georgia Bulldogs • William & Mary Tribe Sep 13 '26
2023 UGA SECCG loser checking in :(. Lost the chance to 3peat. (I understand like all dawgs why we were left out, but your comment is too true)
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u/OSUfan88 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 Sep 13 '26
It’ll also depend on how OSU looks the rest of the season. This team could be terrible, or great. Really hard to tell at this point.
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u/BursleyBaits Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
voters are plenty flexible early in the season, they moved OSU down 5 spots for a last-second road loss to a team they think is #1!
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u/randomthrowaway9796 Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Yeah, I was arguing that Oregon should've fallen to like #15 last week, and people were coming after me for "dropping them so far". Like, its not dropping them, it's placing them where they've performed so far. Preseason rankings don't mean a thing.
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u/Andy_Wiggins Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26
This is why I hate the fact that pre-season polls exist.
If they were simple placeholders before we got data, I’d be cool with it. But some people stick so hard to their priors when those priors were technically speculative.
Let Oregon earn back a top 25 rating. They have a tough slate of games, so if they go out and beat teams like USC or Ohio State then move them back up. But right now nothing they’ve done has looked close to top 25 worthy.
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u/BursleyBaits Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
people have moved from their priors, Oregon's moved down 19 spots! If you believe someone's a top-two team, it should take a lot of evidence to convince you that they're not even top 25. If they genuinely do suck, that'll work itself out just the same.
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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech Sep 13 '26
It doesn’t really matter the CFP rankings come out sometime around week six.
AP poll is just for journalists to feel important.
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u/DerrickWhiteMVP Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
They lost to a team that beat Oregon
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u/BIRDSBEEZ Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26
Cause we won the offseason championship again. But to be serious i have no clue
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u/jamiebond Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
When even Duck fans think it’s stupid that we’re ranked you know the pollsters have lost the plot lol. Really though I don’t know if there’s a single Duck fan out there who wants this team ranked.
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u/Ometrist Oregon Ducks • Pacific (OR) Boxers Sep 13 '26
So they can have a ranked USC vs Oregon game probably. We deserve zero votes after that performance and being this early on in the season
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u/BursleyBaits Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
random sportswriters on the other side of the country do not care about having a ranked USC vs Oregon game
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u/Nomahs_Bettah Michigan Wolverines • Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26
I did not mind when pollsters unranked Michigan after a close win over WMU at home. I do think it's bizarre that Oregon wouldn't end up unranked this week based on their loss to OK State.
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u/TheLuxxy Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26
I think part of it was where they were coming from. Michigan was already 16th before their fall. They fell to 28th.
Oregon was 6th. They fell to 21st. So a larger fall than Michigan. They simply had more slots to fall and still be in the top 25
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u/wibble17 Hawai'i • Nebraska Sep 13 '26
The loss was also arguably to a worse team. Oklahoma State had a huge losing streak and loss to Tulsa on week 1. Western Michigan was supposed to be a strong G5.
A drop out would be justified.
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u/Blakmagik12 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
Because they lost to a scrappy OSU that beat a top 10 Oregon?!?! DUH
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u/Chris_Crossfit Boise State • Northern Arizona Sep 13 '26
We lost 29 votes because of Oregon shitting the bed…
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u/sgtabn173 Boise State Broncos • Pac-12 Sep 13 '26
Welp. At least this will put a chip on the teams shoulder, hopefully.
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u/midnight-architect7 James Madison • Mississippi S… Sep 13 '26
I mean you also lost some votes because you needed a 2nd half comeback to win as well lol
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u/Adart54 Georgia Bulldogs • Oregon State Beavers Sep 13 '26
Not like Memphis is a really good team or anything. No couldn't be that
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u/MuteTadpole Boise State • Tennessee Sep 13 '26
I mean so did bama but here we are
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u/thepolarbears12 Maryland • Louisville Sep 13 '26
So did Texas and they're number 1 smh
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u/suchcoldsuchcomfort Boise State Broncos • Idaho Vandals Sep 13 '26
Yeah, who really is Memphis anyways? Poverty team, amirite?
Also, it was 20-17 at the end of the half. Wouldn't really consider it a second half comeback, but that's just my opinion.
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u/duckfan2424 Oregon Ducks • Pac-12 Sep 13 '26
Absolute joke that Oregon is still ranked
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u/DaddyRobotPNW Oregon Ducks • Pacific Northwest Sep 13 '26
Unrank us you cowards!
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u/LegendsoftheHT South Carolina • Georgia Tech Sep 13 '26
This is a classic poll inertia plus the fact that some voters have Boise in the 25, therefore, Oregon has to be above them.
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u/thescottula Georgia Bulldogs • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
No shade to Oregon, but if you looked at their resume without the names right now they would not be in the top 25
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u/joka2696 UConn Huskies Sep 13 '26
Paper bags for one loss? Have you ever seen 1-11?
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u/imjustanormalghost Washington Huskies • Apple Cup Sep 13 '26
Or 0-12, like UW’s 2008 disasterclass. It’s not great for Oregon fans right now, but Lanning is still a great coach and it could be a lot worse.
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u/Ok-Being3970 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26
- They have the players needed to be a top 5 team
- Confidence in Lanning to recover from the bad game
It really depends on your ranking methodology. If you're trying to be predictive, then Oregon should likely still be in the top 20. If you're trying to judge purely on current resume, Georgia shouldn't be top 25.
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u/TaroNecessary5350 Fresno State Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Rank Tulsa over Oregon.
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u/ozarkhick Tulsa Golden Hurricane Sep 13 '26
We got 18 votes at least.
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u/ridawg05 Mississippi State Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Ugh, beat us by a vote. The Tulsa-MSU rivalry runs deep.
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u/Aslut_Backwards Tulsa Golden Hurricane • American Sep 13 '26
I’m legitimately still bitter and root against Mississippi State whenever the opportunity presents itself
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u/wondersalot Oklahoma State • Texas A&M Sep 13 '26
Less votes than OkSt is a joke
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u/LionPutrid4252 Texas A&M • Oklahoma State Sep 13 '26
Oregon>OSU>Tulsa is the biggest joke ever when each team manhandled the team above them
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u/GoatPaco Tennessee • Tennessee Tech Sep 13 '26
Tulsa received less votes than Oklahoma State
Lmao
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u/Mitchford Auburn Tigers Sep 13 '26
Literally half the number of votes as the team they stomped last week
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u/happypanda9314 Oklahoma State Cowboys Sep 13 '26
And Oklahoma State isn’t ranked after destroying Oregon. That’s how it goes.
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u/GamerKiller2347 Arkansas • Henderson State Sep 13 '26
Last season, Auburn got ranked after Baylor beat a ranked SMU because Auburn was 2-0 and beat Baylor the week prior. The logic here is completely inconsistent.
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u/StoicFable Oregon State Beavers Sep 13 '26
You are forgetting. The P4 get a pass, the G6 are consistently overlooked.
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u/jznastics Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 13 '26
No. 14 seems very high for us
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u/pmj1313 USC Trojans Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
They’re hoping the both of us keep winning so they can inch us higher up the poles so that the white out game is a Top 10 matchup
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u/Bolanus_PSU Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 13 '26
If teams like Oregon keep losing to teams like OK State then I'd argue maybe not.
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u/dkviper11 Penn State • Randolph-Macon Sep 13 '26
This happens every year, where teams that are just quiet slide up the rankings when others are upset.
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide • Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 13 '26
I thought Ohio State would only drop to 5 instead of 6, but nothing egregious in the Top 10
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u/Tarmacked USC Trojans • Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
I mean, I think it’s ridiculous a one point loss @#1 puts them behind Miami @ FAMU and Indiana @ Howard
This is the type of stuff everyone complains about which devalues OOC.
The better approach here would be swapping them, and then if one or the other struggles with more samples you adjust accordingly like what we did with Boise this week.
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u/WhiteW0lf13 Florida State • West Florida Sep 13 '26
There’s no singular correct answer for an early season poll. Putting a 1 loss team behind undefeated teams considered to be roughly similar to each other makes complete sense.
They’ll climb as they continue to do well the rest of the season and the others will fall as they lose/struggle vs the good teams on their schedules.
SOS arguments should be saved for much later in the season imo
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u/OnionKnight73 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26
I’m gonna be honest if you think Texas is the best team because they beat OSU by one at home, then it only makes sense to drop OSU to 2. You can’t play a closer game with the supposedly best team in the nation than that
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u/010Horns Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
While I see your point, if that happened the complaint would then be that a 1-1 OSU is ranked #2 over a bunch of 2-0 teams. This is the kinda thing that will just shake out as the season goes on.
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u/mizaistorom Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
They also blew a 20 point lead. I think if it's a close game throughout and they lose 24-23 at the end they probably barely drop behind UGA and maybe ND.
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u/LemonHarangue Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
Let’s see how they recover with a tough match against Kent State
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u/Perryapsis North Dakota State • /r/CFB Bug Finder Sep 13 '26
NDSU got 3 points!
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u/MrsTheSpork North Dakota State • Michigan Sep 13 '26
Our first points as an FBS team! Yay!
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u/HeftyLeftyPig Utah Utes • Southern Utah Thunderbirds Sep 13 '26
Respect kicking Washington out of the top 25
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u/Tracer-Bullet13 Washington Huskies Sep 13 '26
We deserve it for how dogshit we've looked
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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 Utah Utes • Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
Yet Oregon is still ranked. Make it make sense.
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u/aliensvsdinosaurs Washington • Arizona State Sep 13 '26
oregon has at least played a couple decent teams. UW has squeaked by two pac-8.5 teams at home.
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u/Gold-Bottle-2460 Washington Huskies • Stanford Cardinal Sep 13 '26
I mean Oklahoma State may not be decent
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u/RCA1202 Oklahoma Sooners Sep 13 '26
Closer game with Utah State than their game with Idaho State was, so yeah
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u/jjbjeff22 Washington Huskies • Apple Cup Sep 13 '26
We have looked like ass two straight weeks. 25 or NR was what I was expecting.
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u/arcticape34 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 Sep 13 '26
Oklahoma State receiving more votes than Tulsa is hilarious.
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u/lakeshore34 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
Oregon with a a quality loss to a team that beat Oregon
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u/-TheycallmeThe Purdue Boilermakers • BYU Cougars Sep 13 '26
Is the B1G the meme conference now?
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u/Idepreciateyou Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26
Oh yeah we are. OSU’s only loss is to the team that beat the #1 team in the nation.
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u/peja1682 Pittsburgh • Birmingham Bowl Sep 13 '26
We lost 10 votes lol. Our fault for playing in a monsoon when all the voters do is look at box scores
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u/Chris_Crossfit Boise State • Northern Arizona Sep 13 '26
Welcome to the club. We won our game, beat the spread, and lost 29 votes because Oregon had a collective brain aneurysm.
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u/MuchArtichoke3 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
To be fair, you got a lot of those votes because you played Oregon close and everyone thought Oregon was…better
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u/suchcoldsuchcomfort Boise State Broncos • Idaho Vandals Sep 13 '26
Well, that goes against my personal narrative so I'm disregarding it.
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u/Hokie_Jayhawk Virginia Tech Hokies • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 13 '26
If it turns out Oregon isn't that good, shouldn't that affect how we think about Boise's performance against them?
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u/she_wantsthe_dyl Pittsburgh Panthers Sep 13 '26
All good man it keeps the team hungry. Mason is still a dawg
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u/peja1682 Pittsburgh • Birmingham Bowl Sep 13 '26
It for sure isn’t a big deal, particularly early in the season. I just find it funny how reactionary and inconsistent the voters are
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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 13 '26
Oregon shouldnt be ranked.
Looks like we got 3 ranked matchups next week.
SMU vs Louisville, Texas Tech vs Houston, and Ole Miss vs LSU.
Should be some bangers
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u/LivingCustomer9729 Mississippi State • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
Ole Miss vs LSU…I feel the tension and maybe toxicity already
Edit: yall got me. Maybe ain’t even it. The toxicity will be impossible to not see and feel
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u/Yourfavoriteindian Houston Cougars • Navy Midshipmen Sep 13 '26
Tech Houston is also Friday night so I totally expect that game thread to be quiet, civil, and easy going
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u/likeabosstroll Virginia • South Carolina Sep 13 '26
SMU vs Louisville game is gonna cause both to get deranked. Loser gets murdered because they’re trash for losing to an ACC team and winner is trash because they only beat an ACC team.
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u/HeftyLeftyPig Utah Utes • Southern Utah Thunderbirds Sep 13 '26
Rank Tulsa and Western Michigan!!!
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u/arcticape34 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 Sep 13 '26
Oklahoma State got more votes than Tulsa. Pretty ridiculous
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u/ozarkhick Tulsa Golden Hurricane Sep 13 '26
18 and 35 votes respectively, so the seed is planted at least. Now we gotta take care of Arkansas.
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u/SimilarOnion1655 Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 13 '26
You should worry about your quarterback. He is hurt right now
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u/ozarkhick Tulsa Golden Hurricane Sep 13 '26
He's just missing East Texas A&M, projected to be back the next week.
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u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips Sep 13 '26
RANK WESTERN MICHIGAN COWARDS
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u/mountaineer_93 West Virginia • Georgetown Sep 13 '26
In hindsight I think (1) Michigan is a good team that had a rough first game and (2) WMU is legit and will sweep the MAC and contend for the G6 playoff spot.
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
I think the American might cannibalize and UNLV is definitely not who people thought they might be so that eliminates them from the Mountain West. WMU / MAC might have a good shot this year
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u/JDraks Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 13 '26
It really comes down to WMU vs BSU going into conference play, whoever wins either beat or has a transitive win over the other, Memphis, and UNLV
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u/foreveracubone Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Sep 13 '26
We’re a good defense (when not shooting outselves in the dick with penalties) with an offense that needs to get better
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u/bacillaryburden Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
Got 35 votes! Watch it grow, soon we will have two ranked wins…
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u/NinjaGhost42 Kansas State • Oklahoma State Sep 13 '26
One whole vote
Alright...
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u/Leading-Button-7303 Utah Utes • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26
Wild the disrespect you're getting. You guys look solid
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u/techieman34 Kansas State Wildcats Sep 13 '26
We’ve gotten used to it unfortunately. The brand is more important than the product and no one gives a shit about us.
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u/BehindEnemyLines8923 Mississippi State Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Rank us cowards.
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u/Ok_Flow3504 Missouri Tigers Sep 13 '26
Biggest disrespect in the polls so far this year.
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u/ObsessedWithReps Michigan Wolverines • Miami Hurricanes Sep 13 '26
Michigan over Oregon in week 2 like we all expected
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u/mlg2433 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
Very surprised about OSU dropping to 6. Thought we would just swap
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u/Tracer-Bullet13 Washington Huskies Sep 13 '26
I'm glad they unranked us. We deserve it. Oregon should be unranked too but the media loves them some Duckies.
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u/VividLies901 Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26
Don't worry, we will both enjoy our rivalry game unranked
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u/techieman34 Kansas State Wildcats Sep 13 '26
Gotta keep those Nike ad dollars coming in.
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u/MorbidusUnus Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26
lol how is Mississippi State unranked?
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u/NIdWId6I8 Mississippi State • Oregon Sta… Sep 13 '26
“Mississippi State” is the reason
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u/NotSoSuperNerd Washington • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 13 '26
I'll never forget y'all being ranked #1 in the first ever CFP rankings
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u/SouthCopy8453 Sep 13 '26
Has no one watched Texas Tech play this year? They are not a top 20 team
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u/BursleyBaits Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
there simply are not 20 teams who look like top-20 teams right now, someone's gotta be in there
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u/Texxx81 Texas Tech Red Raiders • Southwest Sep 13 '26
You're not wrong. Was CBS off the air last night?
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u/jsully245 Michigan • Arizona State Sep 13 '26
Is the state of Indiana the new CFB battleground?
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u/-TheycallmeThe Purdue Boilermakers • BYU Cougars Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
What do the last 3 champs all have in common? They all beat Purdue.
Edit: looking back at previous playoff contenders from B1G:
22-23 Ohio State team didn't play Purdue, no title
21-22 Michigan team didn't play Purdue, no title
20-21 Ohio State didn't play Purdue, no title
19-20 Ohio State didn't play Purdue, no title
18-19 Ohio State lost to Purdue, no title
You gotta beat Purdue to get a title
Edit2: Ohio State is the only team that has won a B1G conference championship without beating Purdue. The only year OSU played Purdue and were B1G champs was 2018 so OSU has never beaten Purdue and won a B1G championship game in the same year.
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u/JackC1126 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26
I’m dreaming of a #1 vs #2 Catholics vs Convicts match in November
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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26
Almost certainly requires some losses ahead of us though because neither team will have played a great schedule going into the game.
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u/MoosilaukeFlyer Miami Hurricanes • Endicott Gulls Sep 13 '26
I wish we played annually
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u/carterdmorgan BYU Cougars Sep 13 '26
Looking likely that our game could be a top ten matchup as well. So pumped!
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u/sporkemon Clemson Tigers • Virginia Cavaliers Sep 13 '26
not a single others receiving votes for umass???? it's like the voters don't even recognize that they're the best football team in massachusetts
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u/legalexperiments BYU Cougars • Yale Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Top of the Big12 looking messy.
TT is not looking like they were last year, and BYU and Utah are both looking stronger. I’d put Houston in the next tier down, but next week will be telling.
And with none of those top four playing all three of the others (Utah plays BYU and Houston; Houston plays TT and Utah; and BYU and Tech only play Utah and Houston, respectively), there could be some painful tiebreakers at the end of regular season play.
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u/scrotes_magotes Michigan Wolverines • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26
Oregon is going to end out moving up after a double-OT win over Portland State next weekend
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u/Bondorian Ohio State Buckeyes • Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26
I really wish I could argue this but it just makes sense
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u/OpaqueNightmare Florida State Seminoles Sep 13 '26
Oregon has done nothing to justify a ranking besides being perceived as good in the preseason
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u/galeforcewinds95 New Mexico Lobos • Big 12 Sep 13 '26
Jason Eck has raised my expectations to the point that I'm disappointed that we didn't get any votes.
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u/ICanOutP1zzaTheHut Texas Longhorns • North Texas Mean Green Sep 13 '26
Turns out I really like seeing the number 1 next to my team’s name
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
Yeah can’t wait for the Mean Green to take their deserved spot at #1 in the nation (/s)
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u/Balloutonu Texas Tech Red Raiders • /r/CFB Promoter Sep 13 '26
OU dropping that much is…wow
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u/braingames99 Oklahoma Sooners Sep 13 '26
Deservedly so. There are not enough negative superlatives to describe the horror on offense that I witnessed in Ann Arbor. Historians should genuinely study OU’s inability to field a competent offense. Absolutely incredible.
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u/polaremu Duke Blue Devils • Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 13 '26
Not even a single vote for Duke? C’mon man
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u/owlalwaysloveyew Appalachian State • Georgia Te… Sep 13 '26
The reigning ACC champ deserves more respect
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u/justFramy Fresno State Bulldogs • Pac-12 Sep 13 '26
ok state beats oregon after losing 12 STRAIGHT and immediately gets votes, the ap poll is funny as hell
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u/TheCreed20 Kansas Jayhawks Sep 13 '26
Not just bc of this but AP Poll needs voter accountability to ever be taken seriously as a ranking again
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u/CLINT-THE-GREAT Alabama • Illinois Sep 13 '26
I hate Ohio state but 6 is too low. Shoulda swapped with Texas
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u/thti87 Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies Sep 13 '26
If this were the end of the season, but for now it’s fine. Everything will get shaken up 5 more times before the end of the season and Ohio State plays Indiana.
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u/Frostfire26 Texas Longhorns • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
I think it's reasonable enough for 4-6 to be in any order (and the same when Texas was 4). Indiana and Miami just don't play anyone for a while so it's hard to really judge where they should be.
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u/batman0615 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
Excuse me what the fuck is that flair?
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u/HeftyLeftyPig Utah Utes • Southern Utah Thunderbirds Sep 13 '26
I thought that was a little excessive too.
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u/The_Horse_Joke Ohio State • Central Michigan Sep 13 '26
I don’t think there’s anybody ahead of us who we should be ahead of tbh, and even if we were one lower behind LSU that’d make sense to me
Given the CFP is 12 teams and it’s only been 2 (or 3) weeks of football, I don’t think our placement matters too much at the moment though
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u/thecarlosdanger1 Notre Dame • Cornell Sep 13 '26
Doesn’t apply here but nothing pisses me off more than when a team at 10ish loses a close game on the road to a top 3 team and then drops a bunch.
What the fuck that’s exactly what your rankings said should happen why do you view them as worse now?
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u/MuchArtichoke3 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
Ohio State dropping to #6 feels a bit harsh for one point loss on the road to #4 in a night game. But it’s so early in the year it also doesn’t really matter
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u/Few_Pound_2368 Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26
Great game Longhorns! Highlight for me was getting handshakes from all the old dudes in our section. Respect.
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u/MuchArtichoke3 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26
I met some classy buckeye fans here too. It was fun having yall. We always seem to have some good battles, it was nice to win this time
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u/atsblue Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26
Counterpoint, the previous poll was based entirely on hopes and dreams, early season polls should be super fluid
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u/191374 Nebraska • Morningside Sep 13 '26
Thank god nothing for Nebraska, I hate when we get votes after cupcake games and then just get shit on by the first real team we play
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u/JustAnotherRye89 Nebraska Cornhuskers • I'm A Loser Sep 13 '26
Seems like the AP voters are starting to learn
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u/lordofaesir Tulsa Golden Hurricane • American Sep 13 '26
Tulsa is receiving votes. This is incredible
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u/SPCsooprlolz BYU Cougars • Fresno State Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
Uh oh. This is about the ranking when we choke on national TV
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u/plateglass1 Georgia Bulldogs • Summertime Lover Sep 13 '26
AP should probably rank JMU before they literally kill an opponent on field.
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u/kevinthejuice Virginia Cavaliers • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26
Virginia still #25
Can you take me higher?
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u/DweltElephant0 Notre Dame • Wyoming Sep 13 '26
NDSU receiving votes after (2) games at the FBS level lmao I love our new Bison overlords
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u/Manning_bear_pig Montana State Bobcats • Miami Hurricanes Sep 13 '26
It gets old quicker than you'd think trust me lol
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u/TwinsWin839 Minnesota Golden Gophers Sep 13 '26
Rank North Dakota State you cowards!! 😂
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u/McDimps Pittsburgh • Backyard Brawl Sep 13 '26
This is how you know nobody who votes watches the game. Not saying we should be ranked but c'mon losing votes off of winning in a monsoon ain't it
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u/Lonely_Ranger19 Texas Longhorns • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26
Voters must have lost some money because they dropped Ohio State down to 6
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u/misader Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 13 '26
BYU is leading the B12 in the poll, which is deserved. I think we'd fit better in the 20s at this point.
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u/Agnk1765342 Boise State Broncos Sep 13 '26
What I’ve learned the last 2 weeks is losing is better than winning apparently
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u/berrin122 Florida Gators • Kansas State Wildcats Sep 13 '26
Not that Kansas State should be ranked by any means, but we beat Wazzu considerably better than Washington did, and we didn't almost lose to a Utah State team.
I feel like us having one vote while they have 173 or whatever is a bit...misguided.
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u/mizaistorom Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26
There were some really dumb UGA fans claiming we should be #1 somehow on other forums smdh. Honestly wish we were 4 or 5, worst case for us is UTa loses to UTk and we roll into Tuscaloosa as #1, that's nightmare fuel. That said I think we lose at least one game this year and I'd pay money for it be anyone not named UF (or AU and GT but tbh, we could not pass at all and should beat GT. And AU shouldn't score more than 24 at most on us and we better be able to get 30).
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u/OnionKnight73 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26
I don’t understand rankings. If you really think that Texas is the best team in college football as the rankings indicate, and last week you thought the best team was Ohio State, then how do they drop to 6 after a 1-point loss in Austin? Georgia has two wins and no losses, but a one-point loss at the best team’s stadium is more impressive to me than beating Tennessee State and WKU by a million. It’s never clear to me what these polls are actually supposed to measure
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 14 '26
It makes no sense. Michigan went from ranked to unranked and now back to ranked. Should Oklahoma really be punished that heavily for losing a one score game in a tough road environment to what is now a ranked team?
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u/the_bob_of_marley North Carolina Tar Heels Sep 13 '26