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There was very little shake-up in the top 10 of the new AP poll this week with the top six spots remaining unchanged, Ole Miss and Georgia Tech swapping places
Compared to the chaos of the past few weeks, this Saturday was a relatively quiet one in college football.
Instead of basing a decision on both the eye test and all of the metrics that backed up what we were seeing weekly from Garrett Nussmeier and Co., my fellow voters kept giving the Tigers credit they didn’t deserve. They waited for that third loss, then they could defend the decision not to rank LSU. Some of us reached that point weeks earlier.
Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels put the college football world on notice in Week 9 after earning a statement victory over the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday i
Week 9 of college football has mainly seen the expected outcomes. Georgia Tech, Alabama, Vanderbilt and Indiana secured victories, contrasting with Week 8, when four top 10 teams lost.
The Big 12 has five teams in the AP Top 25 for the first time this season and Vandy earned its highest ranking in 88 years.
Vanderbilt earned its highest AP Top 25 ranking in 88 years, while LSU dropped out of the poll following its third loss in four games.