College Football Polls

The Top 25

The Top Twenty Five teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through one point for a 25th place vote and previous ranking:

Rec Pts Pv 1. Penn St. (51) 5-0 1,724 2 2. Nebraska (14) 5-0 1,668 3 3. Florida St. (3) 5-0 1,603 4 4. N. Carolina (2) 6-0 1,521 5 5. Michigan 5-0 1,490 6 6. Auburn 6-0 1,366 8 7. Florida 5-1 1,280 1 8. LSU 5-1 1,199 14 9. Tennessee 4-1 1,126 9 10. Washington 4-1 1,121 10 11. Ohio St. 5-1 1,113 7 12. Michigan St. 5-0 1,058 11 13. Washington St. 5-0 958 12 14. Texas A&M 5-0 827 15 15. Iowa 4-1 703 17 16. Oklahoma St. 6-0 665 20 17. UCLA 4-2 637 18 18. Air Force 7-0 516 19 19. Georgia 4-1 446 13 20. Kansas St. 4-1 388 22 21. Georgia Tech 4-1 281 25 22. Virginia Tech 5-1 274 23 23. West Virginia 5-1 182 24. Wisconsin 6-1 134 25. Stanford 4-2 119 16

Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 69, New Mexico 57, Toledo 46, Purdue 38, Wyoming 26, Virginia 20, Alabama 15, Colorado 15, Brigham Young 14, Miami, Ohio 11, Ohio U. 9, Clemson 8, Marshall 8, Southern Miss. 5, Colorado St. 4, Rice 4, N. Carolina St. 2.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25

The Top Twenty Five teams in the USA Today/ESPN college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 12, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:

Rec Pts Pv 1. Penn St. (51) 5-0 1,528 2 2. Nebraska (9) 5-0 1,467 3 3. Florida State (1) 5-0 1,433 4 4. N. Carolina (1) 6-0 1,330 5 5. Michigan 5-0 1,317 6 6. Florida 5-1 1,155 1 7. Auburn 6-0 1,127 8 8. Washington 4-1 1,007 9 9. Tennessee 4-1 999 10 10. Louisiana St. 5-1 986 14 11. Michigan State 5-0 979 11 12. Ohio State 5-1 930 7 13. Washington St. 5-0 841 12 14. Texas A&M 5-0 778 13 15. Iowa 4-1 633 16 16. Oklahoma St. 6-0 563 t20 17. Air Force 7-0 476 18 18. UCLA 4-2 389 19 19. Virginia Tech 5-1 366 t20 20. Kansas St. 4-1 356 23 21. Georgia 4-1 339 15 22. West Virginia 5-1 282 24 23. Stanford 4-2 154 17 24. Wisconsin 6-1 132 NR 25. Georgia Tech 4-1 130 NR

Others receiving votes: Arizona State 82, New Mexico 69, BYU 54, Alabama 50, Wyoming 33, Purdue 28, Toledo 25, Clemson 19, Colorado 19, Virginia 15, Cincinnati 12, Marshall 11, Syracuse 9, Miami (Ohio) 8, Rice 6, Colorado State 5, Southern Mississippi 5, Southern California 2, Tulane 1.

How Mike Sando voted in the AP poll:

1, Penn State. 2, Nebraska. 3, North Carolina. 4, Michigan. 5, LSU.

6, Florida State. 7, Auburn. 8, Florida. 9, Ohio State. 10, Washington State.

11, Washington. 12, Tennessee. 13, Michigan State. 14, Iowa. 15, Texas A&M.

16, UCLA. 17, Kansas State. 18, Oklahoma State. 19, Georgia Tech. 20, Air Force.

21, West Virginia. 22, Stanford. 23, Arizona State. 24, Virginia Tech. 25, Alabama.