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Next week’s slate of college football games could shake up the top 10 of the US LBM Coaches and AP Top 25 polls.
Several monumental games will feature ranked teams including Penn State at USC, Ohio State at Oregon and the Red River Rivalry of Texas-Oklahoma. Even Ole Miss-LSU could catapult the winner into the top echelon. So there’s the potential of up to five top-10 teams needing to be reevaluated.
But then Vanderbilt happened.
The Commodores, who entered Saturday as 0-60 against top-five teams in the AP Top 25 Poll, knocked off Alabama (2 Coaches/1 AP) 40-35 in Nashville.
And then Minnesota happened.
The Gophers had lost seven straight games to Power Four competition, but their 24-17 win over USC (15/11) kept the Trojans winless in two road games to the Midwest. (Just wait until it actually gets cold in the heart of the Big Ten.)
And, wouldn’t you know it, just before midnight, Arkansas happened, too.
The two-loss Razorbacks provided a third field being stormed by fans with a 19-14 upset of Tennessee (4/4).
That’s a sizable shakeup from three unranked and three unheralded teams that have had forgettable outings in losses to Georgia State (Vandy), North Carolina (Minnesota) and Oklahoma State (Arkansas).
We’ll see what the new polls look like when the US LBM Coaches and AP polls are tallied and released Sunday.
Teams that should rise
Oregon will benefit from Bama and Tennessee losing, and the Ducks’ methodical 31-10 win over Michigan State should be rewarded. There was no lookahead approach to next week’s showdown against the Buckeyes.
The Spartans didn’t score until the fourth quarter, when Oregon let up and let backups get the reps.
Texas A&M has been quietly getting better each week under coach Mike Elko. After the Aggies (21/T25) destroyed Missouri (9/9) 41-10 for their fifth straight win, they should get a…
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Author : The Courier Journal
Publish date : 2024-10-06 09:13:12
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