Oklahoma Remains Top College Football Team in Poll

Oklahoma remained the top team in the latest Associated Press college football poll after its victory at Florida State.

The Sooners received 37 first-place votes this week, five more than a week ago, and a total of 1,471 points from the nationwide poll of media.

LSU is No. 2 this week after its 19-6 win at Mississippi State, while Alabama dropped a spot to third following a 41-0 rout of overmatched North Texas. The Tigers received 14 first-place votes and the Crimson Tide picked up seven.

Boise State, which rolled to a 40-15 win at Toledo on Friday, earned the other two first-place votes and remained fourth.

Stanford is up to fifth followed by Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Nebraska and Oregon.

The Ohio State Buckeyes were ranked 17th before a 24-6 loss to Miami-Florida on Saturday, they are now unranked. That setback came after a narrow 27-22 win at home against Toledo the previous week. The last time Ohio State was unranked was November 20, 2004.

In addition to Ohio State' Auburn, Arizona State, Michigan State and Mississippi State also departed this week's poll. Michigan State was No. 15 before dropping a 31-13 decision at Notre Dame, while Mississippi State was ranked 25th before its loss to LSU.