SEC with 7 in Top 25 as LSU, S. Carolina enter

LSU reentered The Associated Press assemblage shot canvass astatine No. 18 connected Sunday, and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the archetypal clip successful 4 seasons.

The archetypal six teams successful the AP Top 25 held their spots aft either winning oregon not playing implicit the weekend.

Georgia is No. 1 for the 3rd consecutive week, with No. 2 Ohio State gaining crushed aft it blew retired Iowa. The Bulldogs, who were idle, received 31 first-place votes and 1,530 points, and the Buckeyes got 18 first-place votes and 1,513 points.

No. 3 Tennessee received 13 first-place votes. No. 4 Michigan, No. 5 Clemson and No. 6 Alabama besides held their spots, with the Tigers receiving a first-place vote.

No. 7 TCU moved up a spot aft remaining unbeaten with a second-half comeback against Kansas State. Oregon jumped 2 spots to a season-high No. 8 aft routing UCLA.

Oklahoma State was ranked No. 9, and USC and Wake Forest tied for No. 10.

LSU, successful its archetypal play nether manager Brian Kelly, handed Ole Miss its archetypal nonaccomplishment of the play successful emphatic manner and moved backmost into the rankings up of its crippled against Alabama connected Nov. 5 successful Baton Rouge.

The Tigers were ranked for a week earlier this period earlier losing to Tennessee. They improved to 6-2 by outscoring Ole Miss 42-3 aft falling down by 14 successful the archetypal half.

South Carolina, nether second-year manager Shane Beamer, is ranked for the archetypal clip since a one-week stint aft the opening play of the 2018 season. The Gamecocks bushed Texas A&M to amended to 5-2. They person not been ranked this precocious successful a play since 2013.

POLL POINTS

LSU moving into the rankings earlier its disconnected week ensures that Tigers-Crimson Tide volition beryllium a matchup of ranked teams for the archetypal clip since the SEC West rivals played a 1 vs. 2 crippled successful 2019.

Alabama is disconnected adjacent week too.

The Tigers backslid aft winning the nationalist rubric successful 2019 and were unranked erstwhile they played the Crimson Tide each of the past 2 seasons. That snapped a drawstring of 14 consecutive seasons successful which LSU and Alabama were some ranked erstwhile they played.

• LSU and Tulane are some ranked for the archetypal clip since 1998, though the Louisiana schools were heading successful antithetic directions erstwhile they overlapped that season.

For 2 weeks astatine the opening of October, the Tigers and Green Wave were successful the Top 25, but LSU fell retired the adjacent week and finished 4-7. The Green Wave went connected to an unbeaten play and finished No. 7.

OUT

• Texas is unranked again aft blowing a second-half pb astatine Oklahoma State. The Longhorns fell to 4-3.

• Mississippi State erstwhile again had the misfortune of catching Alabama instantly aft a Crimson Tide nonaccomplishment and was knocked retired of the rankings. The Bulldogs did people a touchdown successful Tuscaloosa for the archetypal clip since 2014. It came connected the last play of the game.

CONFERENCE CALL

SEC - 7 (Nos. 1, 3, 6, 15, 17, 19, 25)
ACC - 5 (Nos. 5, 11, 16, 21, 24)
Big Ten - 4 (Nos. 2, 4, 13, 17)
Pac-12 - 4 (Nos. 8, 10, 12, 14)
Big 12 - 3 (Nos. 7, 9, 23)
American - 2 (Nos. 20, 22)

RANKED vs. RANKED

After having a full of 11 games matching ranked teams the past 2 weeks, the adjacent slate is not rather truthful juicy.

• No. 2 Ohio State astatine No. 13 Penn State. Sixth consecutive gathering with some ranked. The Buckeyes person won the erstwhile five.

• No. 19 Kentucky astatine No. 3 Tennessee. Last clip the Wildcats and Volunteers were some ranked erstwhile they played was 1951.

• No. 9 Oklahoma State astatine No. 22 Kansas State. The 2nd gathering retired of 65 matchups with some ranked. The archetypal was 2011, erstwhile the Cowboys won 52-45.