In the blink of an eye we’re headed into week 3 and it’s time to get serious about the college football Top 25. As our original article stated, teams sort themselves out in the polls by week 3 or 4. It’s clear there were some early pretenders. They’ll all have an opportunity to sort it out and redeem themselves as the season progresses. For now, the teams that are earning their accolades with solid wins are moving up while those that are struggling to find their mark are being left behind.
The biggest surge among the college football Top 25 by an ACC team is by Miami. Is ‘The U’ back? There are more than a few challenges left on their schedule to prove that they are worthy of the nation recognition in the rankings. The unranked Canes laid some wood on No. 23 Texas A&M and climbed 9 spots in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Duke is the next highest achiever moving up 4 spots and Florida State, the top team in the conference is now in the top 3 of the polls moving up 2 places.
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North Carolina dropped 2 spots as they barely eked out an overtime win over unranked Appalachian State, a notorious giant killer. Clemson slipped another spot after yet another questionable performance and dropped out of the AP college football Top 25.
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College Football Top 25 – ACC
| USA TODAY | TEAM | AP | TEAM |
| #1 | GEORGIA | #1 | GEORGIA |
| #2 | MICHIGAN | #2 | MICHIGAN |
| #3 | FLORIDA STATE | #3 | FLORIDA STATE |
| #4 | OHIO STATE | #4 | TEXAS |
| #5 | USC | #5 | USC |
| #11 | NOTRE DAME | #9 | NOTRE DAME |
| #18 | NORTH CAROLINA | #20 | NORTH CAROLINA |
| #20 | DUKE | #21 | DUKE |
| #22 | CLEMSON | #22 | MIAMI |
| #23 | MIAMI | RV | |
| RV | #26 | CLEMSON | |
| #36 | WAKE FOREST | ||
| #40 | SYRACUSE | ||
| #49 | LOUISVILLE |
Notre Dame (as part of our ACC+1) didn’t get a bump after battling it out with unranked NC State. Teams, other than the aforementioned Clemson that are in the Receiving Votes category include; Wake Forest, Syracuse and Louisville.
Louisville started the week’s schedule with a decisive win over Murray State, 56-0. Wake Forest defeated Vanderbilt, 36-20. Syracuse delivered a solid win over Western Michigan, 48-7. Wake Forest and Louisville moved up in voting while Syracuse was added to the list.
Pitt and NC State fell out of the mentions for the college football Top 25 following losses to Cincinnati and Notre Dame.
