Alabama Remains No. 2 in AP Top 25
A week after placing 10 teams in the top 25 for the first time ever, the Southeastern Conference took a step backwards.
Tennessee, Mississippi State, and Arkansas all dropped out of the poll following losses in week two. Auburn, which pulled out an overtime win over FCS Jacksonville State, dropped 12 spots to No. 18.
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 12, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Pv | |
| 1. Ohio St. (59) | 2-0 | 1,523 | 1 |
| 2. Alabama | 2-0 | 1,423 | 2 |
| 3. TCU | 2-0 | 1,366 | 3 |
| 4. Michigan St. (2) | 2-0 | 1,354 | 5 |
| 5. Baylor | 2-0 | 1,240 | 4 |
| 6. Southern Cal | 2-0 | 1,146 | 8 |
| 7. Georgia | 2-0 | 1,031 | 10 |
| 8. Notre Dame | 2-0 | 1,012 | 9 |
| 9. Florida St. | 2-0 | 973 | 11 |
| 10. UCLA | 2-0 | 928 | 13 |
| 11. Clemson | 2-0 | 926 | 12 |
| 12. Oregon | 1-1 | 833 | 7 |
| 13. LSU | 1-0 | 787 | 14 |
| 14. Georgia Tech | 2-0 | 716 | 15 |
| 15. Mississippi | 2-0 | 713 | 17 |
| 16. Oklahoma | 2-0 | 705 | 19 |
| 17. Texas A&M | 2-0 | 703 | 16 |
| 18. Auburn | 2-0 | 519 | 6 |
| 19. BYU | 2-0 | 349 | NR |
| 20. Arizona | 2-0 | 342 | 22 |
| 21. Utah | 2-0 | 290 | 24 |
| 22. Missouri | 2-0 | 264 | 21 |
| 23. Northwestern | 2-0 | 170 | NR |
| 24. Wisconsin | 1-1 | 158 | NR |
| 25. Oklahoma St. | 2-0 | 48 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Temple 38, West Virginia 37, Mississippi St. 32, Tennessee 30, Toledo 29, Kansas St. 26, Arizona St. 20, Boise St. 16, Houston 16, NC State 14, Florida 12, Minnesota 9, Arkansas 6, California 5, Iowa 5, Miami 3, Stanford 3, Virginia Tech 2, W. Kentucky 2, Duke 1.
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