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Florida State remained No. 1 for the third consecutive week and Miami took the No. 2 spot from Michigan in the Associated Press poll.
Baylor, Pittsburgh and Mississippi State moved into the top 25, while Texas, USC and Brigham Young dropped out.
Florida State (2-0) received 53 of 60 first-place votes and 1,491 points after beating Tulane, 38-11. Miami (1-0), which didn’t play during the weekend, rose one spot with two first-place votes and 1,344 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters.
Michigan (1-0) fell from second to third after a 35-13 victory over Boston College. The Wolverines, who led 14-13 in the fourth quarter, got one first-place vote and 1,339 points.
Washington (1-0), which opened with a 42-7 victory over Stanford, remained fourth with two first-place votes and 1,304 points. The rest of the top 10 was unchanged, with fifth-ranked Penn State (2-0) followed by Florida (1-0), Notre Dame (1-0), Clemson (1-0), Oklahoma (0-0) and Houston (1-0).
Florida and Houston each got one first-place vote.
Tennessee is 11th, followed by Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia Tech, Michigan State, Ohio State and Texas A&M.; Rounding out the top 25 are UCLA, Syracuse, Baylor, Pittsburgh and Mississippi State.
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