Florida State dropped out The Associated Press College Football Poll on Tuesday after Season start 0-2, This makes it only the third team to slip from the preseason top 10 into the first regular season poll since the rankings were expanded to 25th in 1989.

Georgia remained number 1, receiving 57 first-place votes after ending the season with a Convincing victory against then number 14 Clemson. The Tigers remained in 25th place.

Ohio State is No. 2 with five first-place finishes. No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama each moved up one spot, making three Southeastern Conference teams in the top four, along with Georgia.

No. 5 Notre Dame jumped two places after opening the season with a Victory at then number 20 Texas A&M, who fell out of the rankings.

Florida State was the biggest disappointment early in the season. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion lost a game in Dublin, Ireland, to ACC rival Georgia Tech in Week 0 and then fell another league game Monday night at home against Boston College.

No other preseason top-25 team has lost to an unranked opponent in its season opener this year. Florida State did it twice as a double-digit favorite.

The other preseason top-10 teams to fall entirely out of the top 25 after Week 1 in the last 35 years were Michigan in 2007 after its famous loss to Appalachian State as a No. 5 seed and Clemson in 2008. The Tigers were No. 9 but lost heavily to Alabama early on and fell out of the rankings.

Mississippi remained at No. 6. Oregon slipped four spots to No. 7 after a narrow win over Idaho. Penn State remained at No. 8. Missouri moved up two spots to No. 9, so the SEC now has five teams in the top 10. Michigan dropped one spot to No. 10.

Georgia Tech’s 2-0 start puts the Yellowjackets in 23rd place in the rankings for the first time since 2015.

Survey points

Because Florida State began its season a week before most of the country, the team now joins the exclusive club of teams that began their season 0-2 and suffered every loss while ranked in the top 10.

Notre Dame was the last team to do so in 2022. The Fighting Irish began the season as the No. 5 seed, losing their opening game to No. 2 Ohio State and losing at home to Marshall the following week despite being ranked No. 8. The Irish finished the season 9-4.

Ohio State began the 1986 season ranked 9th and lost two straight games to higher-ranked opponents Alabama (5th) and Washington (17th). The Buckeyes were ranked 10th when they played the Huskies. Ohio State finished the season 10-3.

The 1967 Texas team and 1952 TCU also started 0-2, but were ranked in the top 10 in both games.

Florida State is only the second team to suffer two losses before the first regular season poll was released, joining Kentucky in 1951. The Wildcats dropped from No. 6 to No. 17 after starting the season 1-2, losing to No. 11 Texas and Mississippi.

Florida State has a weekend off before resuming its schedule with home games against Memphis and new ACC member California before a trip to SMU and then a home game against Clemson.

“You have a football team that nobody expected would ever be where we are now and that has experienced disappointments and failures, but I believe in what this team can do,” coach Mike Norvell said after the loss to BC. “I believe in what this team can do.”

Going up

The biggest climbers in the top 25 were Miami and Southern California.

The Hurricanes jumped seven places to 12th place after Florida’s defeat in “The Swamp” and have their best ranking since entering the top 10 towards the end of the 2020 season.

No. 13 USC moved up 10 places after the win against LSU with a late touchdown on Sunday night in Las Vegas. The loss dropped LSU to 18th place.

The Trojans started last season ranked No. 6 but finished unranked after a disappointing 8-5 season featuring 2022 Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams.

In and out

The only other team to move up in the rankings this week besides Georgia Tech was ACC school Louisville. The Cardinals were among the most voted unranked teams in the preseason and are now ranked 22nd.

Conference call

Although Florida State and Clemson started the season 0-3, the ACC has one more team in the rankings this week than last time:

SEC – 8 (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18).

Big Ten – 6 (Nos. 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21).

ACC – 5 (No. 12, 22, 23, 24, 25).

Big 12 – 5 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 19, 20).

Independent – ​​1 (No. 5).

Ranking vs. Ranking

No. 3 Texas vs. No. 10 Michigan. The first ever meeting of the regular season is a top-10 duel in the Big House.

No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 24 NC State in Charlotte, North Carolina. Interesting SEC-ACC rankings duel.

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This story has been updated to correct a typo in Miami’s No. 12 ranking.