ASU football back in AP Top 25 following comeback win vs. TCU
ASU football is back in The Associated Press' Top 25 Poll following a comeback win against TCU on Friday.
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Arizona State football is back in The Associated Press’ Top 25 Poll at No. 25 following a comeback 27-24 win against No. 24 TCU on Friday.
Arizona State (4-1, 2-0) had not been in the Top 25 since its Week 2 loss against Mississippi State. The Sun Devils received 57 votes following its win against Baylor last week.
The Sun Devils also earned a place in this week’s Coaches Poll, landing at No. 24.
The Sun Devils have rattled off three wins in a row since its Week 2 loss despite trailing by as many as 17 points in Friday’s contest. Close games have been a recent trend for ASU as three of their last four games have been decided by three points or fewer.
Following the win, ASU will be on a bye next week before traveling to Salt Lake City to face the Utah Utes on Oct. 11. Utah will also be on a bye in Week 6 following its 48-14 win against West Virginia on Saturday.
How rest of Big 12 is doing in AP Top 25 compared to ASU?
Four Big 12 teams were in the latest AP Poll with Texas Tech jumping up one spot to No. 11 despite being on a bye this week. BYU moved up two spots to No. 23 while TCU fell out. Iowa State remained at No. 14 after its 39-14 win against Arizona on Saturday.
Oregon jumped from No. 6 to No. 2 following an overtime win versus Penn State. Penn State dropped to No. 7.
Florida State dropped the most spots out of any team that was in the Top 10 headed into Week 5, dropping from No. 6 to No. 18 following the loss to Virginia on Friday. LSU fell nine spots to No. 13 after a loss to Ole Miss who jumped up to No. 4 in the poll.
Week 5 AP Top 25 college football rankings
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Miami (FL)
- Ole Miss
- Oklahoma
- Texas A&M
- Penn State
- Indiana
- Texas
- Alabama
- Texas Tech
- Georgia
- LSU
- Iowa State
- Tennessee
- Vanderbilt
- Georgia Tech
- Florida State
- Missouri
- Michigan
- Notre Dame
- Illinois
- BYU
- Virginia
- Arizona State
Others receiving votes: South Florida 53, Utah 52, Mississippi State 46, Memphis 38, Louisville 36, Southern Cal 22, Maryland 7, North Texas 7, TCU 6, UNLV 3.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Forget the Polls. Just win baby!
College Football had a dilemma. How to get the pansy Big 10 into the playoffs every year. When they got that through the “playoff”, Big 10 fans went home every year with a dent in their skulls after playing an SEC team.
So, they had to alter it again. Why? Because we can’t have the SEC dominate every year (which they did).
Now, a weak Penn State team loses to and Oregon Ducks team that still hopes it never has to play those horrible southern teams because they know they’re going to get kicked just like the Big 10, and they only drop 3 spots. Georgia loses to a much tougher Alabama squad and goes out of the Top 10.
Anyone with a pulse to their brain knows why: because most sportswriters come from the Big 10 and for some reason, there are a lot of Big 10 fans with money.
These polls no longer mean squat. Nothing matters til the playoff rankings start to hit. Good thing too because althe AP poll id nothing more than a bullhorn for the SEspnC and little 10 these days.