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Kansas State Gains Three Spots in AP Poll, up to #14

There's not a lot of difference between the polls this week, but the differences that do exist are stark indeed.

By Jon Morse
Onward and upward.
Onward and upward.
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Second verse, same as the first -- mostly. The AP Poll is out, and there's not much difference from the coaches' rankings. Mississippi State again took over first place (in commanding fashion, grabbing more first-place votes than Florida State had last week). Kansas State is 14th in both polls now, moving up three spots from last week's placement in the AP.

Both polls feature the same 25 squads this week, with some slight differences. Whereas Florida State's lead over Mississippi in the coaches' poll is dominant, the Seminoles only avoided falling to #3 in the AP by a mere two points. The AP gives Auburn the edge over Alabama, and in a landslide; 76 points separate the two. Both teams, however, remain well ahead of Michigan State, who passed them both in the coaches' poll.

Nine through fifteen are now the same in both polls; the Arizonas pull ahead of East Carolina in the AP, and the bottom six spots in the AP are slightly shuffled from the coaches' poll. As with the coaches', Georgia Tech, Missouri, and UCLA fell out, replaced by USC, Clemson, and Marshall.

With that, here's your rankings:

RANK TEAM POINTS FIRST LW DELTA
1 Mississippi State Bulldogs 1480 45 3 +2
2 Florida State Seminoles 1415 12 1 -1
3 Mississippi Rebels 1413 3 3 0
4 Baylor Bears 1317 0 5 +1
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1228 0 6 +1
6 Auburn Tigers 1144 0 2 -4
7 Alabama Crimson Tide 1068 0 7 0
8 Michigan State Spartans 1015 0 8 0
9 Oregon Ducks 1014 0 12 +3
10 Georgia Bulldogs 981 0 13 +3
11 Oklahoma Sooners 935 0 11 0
12 Texas Christian Horned Frogs 917 0 9 -3
13 Ohio State Buckeyes 648 0 15 +2
14 Kansas State Wildcats 626 0 17 +3
15 Oklahoma State Cowboys 620 0 16 +1
16 Arizona Wildcats 590 0 10 -6
17 Arizona State Sun Devils 459 0 20 +3
18 East Carolina Pirates 449 0 19 +1
19 Nebraska Cornhuskers 401 0 21 +2
20 Utah Utes 305 0 24 +4
21 Texas A&M Aggies 264 0 14 -7
22 Southern California Trojans 258 0 28 +6
23 Stanford Cardinal 223 0 25 +2
24 Clemson Tigers 188 0 26 +2
25 Marshall Thundering Herd 149 0 27 +2
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES

UCLA 110; Louisiana State 67; Duke 45; Minnesota 36; Kentucky 36; West Virginia 27;
Washington 22; Georgia Tech 11; Arkansas 10; Louisville 7; Rutgers 7; Iowa 6;
Colorado State 3; North Dakota State 3; South Carolina 1; Virginia 1; Wisconsin 1.