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Week 1 is in the books after five straight days of college football, and soon we will have new AP Top 25 rankings for the first time in nearly a month. Everyone has had time to challenge those preseason expectations with more information from fall camp, but most importantly, we have first impressions from opening weekend. Some years, this leads to big shake-ups in the post-Week 1 update of the AP Top 25 poll. But while there are some notable moves both up and down within the top 25, the lack of updates and number of lopsided scores are not giving voters a ton of reasons to change up their ballots.
The top nine teams in the AP poll went 9-0 and had an average margin of victory of +36.7 points. Those teams also allowed just five touchdowns combined — two of which came in Oregon’s head-scratching 24-14 win against FCS Idaho. For the most part, the best teams in the country not only won, but dominated, as the top 25 saw just one team (Florida State) lose to an unranked opponent.
But it is in those ranked-on-ranked matchups that we get data points that can move some of the rankings around in an otherwise chalky week. Losses for Clemson and Texas A&M open up further down in the poll, and USC is set to make a big jump after knocking off LSU in Las Vegas. Even in some of the wins against unranked squads there are opportunities for teams to improve their stock, like a Miami squad that looked every bit the part of an ACC favorite in a thorough dismantling of in-state rival Florida.
Now that the voters’ preseason expectations have been put to the test with actual results, here’s how we think the new AP Top 25 poll will look on Tuesday.
1. Georgia (Previous week — 1): Look for the Bulldogs to only strengthen their position at No. 1 after…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2024-09-03 02:55:10
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