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Miami, UCLA Are Still 1-2 in Both Polls

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Miami’s 31-30 come-from-behind victory over Michigan kept the Hurricanes atop the Associated Press college football poll Monday.

Miami, which rallied from a 30-14 deficit by scoring 17 points in the final 5 1/2 minutes, received 52 of 59 first-place votes and 1,171 of a possible 1,180 points from a nationwide panel of sportswriters and sportscasters.

Michigan, which lost its opener, 19-17, to Notre Dame, slipped from 15th to 19th. The last 0-2 team to make the top 20 was Auburn in 1984.

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UCLA, a 56-3 winner over Cal State Long Beach, received 3 first-place votes and remained No. 2 with 1,104 points.

USC, ranked No. 4 by United Press International, was No. 5 in the AP poll, behind Oklahoma and Auburn.

Rounding out AP’s top 10, in order, were Georgia, LSU, Notre Dame, Florida State and Nebraska.

Miami was ranked No. 1 in UPI’s board of coaches’ top 20.

UCLA remained second with the other five first-place votes and 688 points. Then came Oklahoma, USC, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Notre Dame, Florida State and West Virginia.

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