Florida State drops out of AP Top 25 after 0-2 start. Texas up to No. 3 behind Georgia, Ohio State

Florida State fell out of The Associated Press college football poll on Tuesday after starting the season 0-2, becoming just the third team to go from preseason top 10 to unranked in the first regular-season poll since the rankings expanded to 25 in 1989. 1, receiving 57 first-place votes after starting the season with a blowout of then-No. 25, but it was the second straight year they dropped at least 10 spots after losing their season opener. No. 4 Alabama each moved up a spot, putting three Southeastern Conference teams in the top four along with Georgia. The last time the SEC did that in a non-pandemic season was Sept. 22, 2019. No. 20 Texas A&M, which fell out of the rankings. Florida State has been the early season’s major disappointment. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion lost in Dublin, Ireland, to ACC rival Georgia Tech and then dropped another league game Monday night at home to Boston College. No other preseason Top 25 team this year lost to an unranked opponent to open the season. The other preseason top-10 teams to fall all the way out of the Top 25 after Week 1 in the past 35 years were Michigan in 2007 after famously losing to Appalachian State as No. Poll points Because Florida State started its season a week before most of the country, it moves into an exclusive club of teams that began their seasons 0-2 with each loss coming while ranked in the top 10. Notre Dame was the last to do it in 2022, when the Fighting Irish began the season No. 5, lost at No. 2 Ohio State in their opener, and then were beaten at home the next week by Marshall while ranked eighth. Ohio State opened the 1986 season ranked ninth and lost back-to-back games to ranked opponents, No. The 1967 Texas team and TCU from 1952 also started 0-2 while ranked in the top 10 in both games. Florida State is only the second ranked team to lose twice before the first regular-season poll was released, joining Kentucky in 1951. 17 while going 1-2 to start the season, losing at No. Florida State gets a 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. “You’ve got a football team that nobody envisioned ever being where we are and having disappointment, having failure, but I do believe in what this team can do,” coach Mike Norvell said after the BC loss. “I believe in what this team can accomplish.” Moving up The big movers upward in the Top 25 were Miami and Southern California. 12 after routing Florida at The Swamp and have their best ranking since cracking the top 10 late in the 2020 season. No. 6, but ended up unranked after a disappointing 8-5 season with 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams. In and out The only other team to move into the rankings this week, along with Georgia Tech, was fellow ACC school Louisville. The Cardinals were among the top unranked voter-getters in the preseason and now sit at No. Conference call Despite Florida State and Clemson starting the season 0-3, the ACC has one more team in this week’s rankings than it did last time: SEC — 8 (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18). 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21). 12, 22, 23, 24, 25). 11, 16, 17, 19, 20). The first regular-season meeting ever is a top-10 matchup at the Big House. No. 24 N.C. State in Charlotte, North Carolina. ___ Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football ___ This story has been updated correct a typo in the ranking of No. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://apnews.com/2c4f6dd7f305cd00fcf9cc368437c60b