AP College Football Poll 2016: Updated Week 2 Rankings

After the opening weekend of the college football regular season, the AP Top 25 Poll featured some major changes on Tuesday.

The AP preseason poll is always going to look a lot different by the end of the college football season. However, the previous poll already looks like it was from a completely different year after all of the upsets this past weekend.

The latest AP Top 25 Poll for Week 2 was released later than usual on Tuesday after big games on Sunday and Monday night. While the Alabama Crimson Tide still hold the No. 1 spot, the rest of the poll looks considerably different.

Tuesday’s latest poll featured a number of teams climbing and falling. The LSU Tigers dropped all the way from No. 5 in the nation down to No. 21 after a rough loss to the then-unranked Wisconsin Badgers at Lambeau Field. Oklahoma also fell from No. 3 to No. 14 after losing to the Houston Cougars.

As for the winners of this week’s AP Poll, the Cougars climbed from No. 15 to No. 6 after that upset win over the Sooners. Meanwhile the Washington Huskies climbed from No. 14 to No. 8 while the Georgia Bulldogs moved up nine spots to No. 9 behind the legs of Nick Chubb.

You can check out the entire AP Top 25 poll below, or on the AP’s official website here.

Rank Team (First Place Votes) Previous Rank Points
1 Alabama (54) 1 1,518
2 Clemson (2) 2 1,416
3 Florida State (4) 4 1,413
4 Ohio State 6 1,324
5 Michigan (1) 7 1,261
6 Houston 15 1,243
7 Stanford 8 1,140
8 Washington 14 884
9 Georgia 18 877
10 Wisconsin NR 759
11 Texas NR 743
12 Michigan State 12 722
13 Louisville 19 686
14 Oklahoma 3 664
15 TCU 13 635
16 Iowa 17 588
17 Tennessee 9 573
18 Notre Dame 10 528
19 Ole Miss 11 493
20 Texas A&M NR 477
21 LSU 5 423
22 Oklahoma State 21 409
23 Baylor 23 296
24 Oregon 24 242
25 Miami (FL) NR 137

Some notable teams also receiving votes were Florida, UCLA, Boise State, Utah, San Diego State and North Carolina.

Seeing so many teams like this move around in the first week of action is pretty crazy, but this definitely won’t be the last time we see this much movement before the college football season is over.

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