After becoming the No. 1 consensus team in the land of college football again in last week’s poll, the Florida State Seminoles have been dethroned and they didn’t even lose last week. The new consensus No. 1 team is now the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs are followed by Florida State, the Ole Miss Rebels, Baylor Bears and Notre Dame Fighting Irish in both polls.
The East Carolina Pirates remain the only ranked team from the American Athletic Conference as they come in at 18/16. And for the second straight week, there are no teams from the American among the others receiving votes.
| AP Top 25 | USA Today Poll | ||||||
| RK | TEAM | REC | PTS | RK | TEAM | REC | PTS |
| 1 | Mississippi State (45) | 6-0 | 1480 | 1 | Mississippi State (26) | 6-0 | 1490 |
| 2 | Florida State (12) | 6-0 | 1415 | 2 | Florida State (31) | 6-0 | 1489 |
| 3 | Ole Miss (3) | 6-0 | 1413 | 3 | Ole Miss (5) | 6-0 | 1436 |
| 4 | Baylor | 6-0 | 1317 | 4 | Baylor | 6-0 | 1392 |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 6-0 | 1228 | 5 | Notre Dame | 6-0 | 1292 |
| 6 | Auburn | 5-1 | 1144 | 6 | Michigan State | 5-1 | 1129 |
| 7 | Alabama | 5-1 | 1068 | 7 | Alabama | 5-1 | 1121 |
| 8 | Michigan State | 5-1 | 1015 | 8 | Auburn | 5-1 | 1111 |
| 9 | Oregon | 5-1 | 1014 | 9 | Oregon | 5-1 | 1017 |
| 10 | Georgia | 5-1 | 981 | 10 | Georgia | 5-1 | 1013 |
| 11 | Oklahoma | 5-1 | 935 | 11 | Oklahoma | 5-1 | 1005 |
| 12 | TCU | 4-1 | 917 | 12 | TCU | 4-1 | 824 |
| 13 | Ohio State | 4-1 | 648 | 13 | Ohio State | 4-1 | 737 |
| 14 | Kansas State | 4-1 | 626 | 14 | Kansas State | 4-1 | 710 |
| 15 | Oklahoma State | 5-1 | 620 | 15 | Oklahoma State | 5-1 | 610 |
| 16 | Arizona | 5-1 | 590 | 16 | East Carolina | 5-1 | 518 |
| 17 | Arizona State | 4-1 | 459 | 17 | Arizona | 5-1 | 502 |
| 18 | East Carolina | 5-1 | 449 | 18 | Arizona State | 4-1 | 471 |
| 19 | Nebraska | 5-1 | 402 | 19 | Nebraska | 5-1 | 433 |
| 20 | Utah | 4-1 | 305 | 20 | Stanford | 4-2 | 344 |
| 21 | Texas A&M | 5-2 | 264 | 21 | Texas A&M | 5-2 | 269 |
| 22 | USC | 4-2 | 258 | 22 | Clemson | 4-2 | 244 |
| 23 | Stanford | 4-2 | 223 | 23 | Utah | 4-1 | 161 |
| 24 | Clemson | 4-2 | 188 | 24 | Marshall | 6-0 | 153 |
| 25 | Marshall | 6-0 | 148 | 25 | USC | 4-2 | 125 |
| Dropped from rankings: | Dropped from rankings: | ||||||
| UCLA 18, Georgia Tech 22 | UCLA 17, Georgia Tech 23, Missouri 24 | ||||||
| Others receiving votes: | Others receiving votes: | ||||||
| UCLA 110, LSU 67, Duke 45, Minnesota 36, Kentucky 36, West Virginia 27, Washington 22, Georgia Tech 11, Arkansas 10, Louisville 7, Rutgers 7, Iowa 6, North Dakota State 3, Colorado State 3, South Carolina 1, Virginia 1, Wisconsin 1 | UCLA 116, LSU 80, Minnesota 78, Duke 70, Washington 70, Kentucky 37, Wisconsin 34, West Virginia 17, Iowa 15, Georgia Tech 14, Oregon State 10, Colorado State 5, Missouri 5, BYU 2, Rutgers 1 | ||||||
