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Florida State dropped out of the Associated Press College Football Poll on Tuesday after starting the season 0-2, becoming just the third team to move from the preseason top 10 to outside the rankings in the first regular-season poll since the rankings expanded to 25 in 1989.
Georgia remained in first place, receiving 57 first-place votes after starting the season with a landslide win over then-14th-ranked Clemson. The Tigers remained in 25th place.
Ohio State is second with five first-place votes. Texas, the third seed, and Alabama, the fourth seed, both moved up one spot, putting three teams from the Southeastern Conference in the top four along with Georgia.
No. 5-ranked Notre Dame jumped two spots after opening the season with a win over then-No. 20-ranked Texas A&M, which had fallen out of the rankings.
Florida State was a major disappointment early in the season. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions lost a Week 0 game in Dublin, Ireland, to Atlantic Coast Conference rival Georgia Tech and then lost another league game Monday night at home to Boston College.
No other preseason Top 25 team has lost to an unranked team this year, and Florida State has done so twice as a huge favorite to win without receiving a single vote from the Associated Press poll.
Over the past 35 years, the only other teams to fall out of the preseason top 10 after the first week were Michigan in 2007 after a famous loss to No. 5 Appalachian State and Clemson in 2008. The Tigers were No. 9 but opened the season with a crushing loss to Alabama and fell out of the rankings.
Mississippi remained at No. 6. Oregon dropped four spots to No. 7 after winning a close game against Idaho. Penn State remained at No. 8. Missouri moved up two spots to No. 9, giving the Southeastern Conference five teams in the top 10. Michigan dropped one spot to No. 10.
Georgia Tech started the season with two wins and no response, moving up to No. 23 in the rankings for the first time since 2015.
Survey points
Since Florida State started its season a week ahead of most teams in the country, it moved into an exclusive club of teams that started their season 0-2, with each loss coming while ranked among the top 10.
Notre Dame was the last to do so in 2022, when the Fighting Irish started the season in fifth place, lost to second-ranked Ohio State in its opener, then suffered a surprise home defeat the following week to Marshall while in eighth place. The Irish finished the season 9-4.
Ohio State opened the 1986 season ranked ninth and lost two straight games to ranked opponents, fifth-ranked Alabama and seventeenth-ranked Washington. The Buckeyes were ranked tenth when they played the Huskies. Ohio State finished the season 10-3.
The 1967 Texas team and the 1952 TCU team also started 0-2 while being ranked in the top 10 in both games.
Florida State is the second ranked team to lose twice before the first regular-season poll is published, joining Kentucky in 1951. The Wildcats moved from sixth to 17th after going 1-2 to start the season, losing to 11th-ranked Texas and to Mississippi.
Florida State gets the weekend off before resuming its schedule with home games against Memphis and new ACC member California before a trip to SMU followed by a home game against Clemson.
“We’ve got a football team that nobody thought would be where we are now, and we’re disappointed and disappointed, but I believe this team can do it,” coach Mike Norvell said after the BC loss.
move up
The big movers in the top 25 were Miami and Southern California.
The Hurricanes jumped seven spots to No. 12 after beating Florida at The Swamp and have their best ranking since entering the top 10 late in the 2020 season.
The No. 13 University of Southern California moved up 10 spots after beating Louisiana State University on a late goal in Las Vegas on Sunday night. The loss dropped LSU to No. 18.
The Trojans started last season ranked sixth, but ended up out of the rankings after a disappointing 8-5 season with 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams.
inside and outside
The only other team to move up in the rankings this week, besides Georgia Tech, was Louisville, an ACC team. The Cardinals were among the unranked teams with the most votes in the preseason and now sit in 22nd place.
conference call
Although Florida State and Clemson started the season 0-3, the Atlantic Coast Conference has one more team in this week’s rankings than last time:
Second – 8 (numbers 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18).
Big Ten – 6 (numbers 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21).
Administrative Coordination Committee – 5 (Nos. 12, 22, 23, 24, 25).
Big 12 – 5 (No. 11, 16, 17, 19, 20).
Independent – 1 (No. 5).
classified vs classified
No. 3 Texas vs. No. 10 Michigan. The first ever regular season meeting between top 10 teams in the Big House.
No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 24 North Carolina State in Charlotte, NC. An interesting matchup in the SEC-ACC.
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