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| Sunday, October 8 Big 12 packing 1-2 punch in AP poll ESPN.com news services | |||
| Nebraska is No. 1 again, but look who's No. 2 -- Kansas State.
The Cornhuskers regained the top spot in a big way on Sunday,
while one week at No. 1 was too much for Florida State, which
tumbled to No. 7 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll following
Saturday's 27-24 loss at Miami.
K-State made a power move, too, jumping ahead of Virginia Tech
into the No. 2 slot and allowing the Big 12 Conference to become
the first league to boast 1-2 teams since 1987.
In the 11th poll of the '87 season, Nebraska and Oklahoma were
1-2.
With its first win over Florida State since 1994, Miami moved up
three spots to No. 4, just behind No. 3 Virginia Tech, and gave the
Big East Conference the 3-4 places in the poll.
The Huskers (5-0), who beat Iowa State 49-27, received 67
first-place votes and 1,771 points from the 71 sports writers and
broadcasters on the AP panel. Last week, Nebraska had 28
first-place votes to Florida State's 42.
The Wildcats (6-0), who beat Kansas 52-13, had three first-place
votes and 1,640 points, while Virginia Tech (5-0) had one
first-place vote and 1,627 points. The Hokies beat Temple 35-13.
Nebraska coach Frank Solich is just happy his team is winning.
"There's only about half of the season gone. We've got a lot of
football to play," Solich said Sunday. "There's a lot of them
dropping by the wayside as far as undefeated teams go."
Just seven of the 115 I-A teams are unbeaten and all are ranked
within the top 12. Miami is the highest ranked team with one loss.
Following No. 4 Miami is No. 5 Clemson (6-0) , No. 6 Ohio State
(5-0), No. 7 Florida State, No. 8 Oklahoma (5-0), No. 9 Oregon and
No. 10 Florida.
Florida, which beat LSU 41-9, gave the Southeastern Conference a
Top 10 team again after last week's absence -- the first time since
1988 an SEC team was not ranked in the AP's Top 10.
Washington, a 33-30 winner over Oregon State, was No. 11,
followed by No. 12 TCU (5-0), No. 13 UCLA, No. 14. Georgia, No. 15
Mississippi State, No. 16 Southern Mississippi, No. 17
Northwestern, No. 18 Michigan, No. 19 Auburn and No. 20 Notre Dame.
Purdue, a 32-31 winner over Michigan, was back in the poll at
No. 21, followed by No. 22 Arizona, No. 23 Oregon State, No. 24
South Carolina and No. 25 Texas.
Tennessee (2-3), which lost 21-10 to Georgia, fell out of the AP
rankings for the first time since Dec. 4, 1994 -- a streak of 94
consecutive rankings. Joining the Vols on the dropout list were USC
and Wisconsin, Arizona, Purdue and South Carolina are the new Top 25 teams this
week.
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