Aggies surge into top 10; Vandy, GT, USC ranked

NEW YORK -- Texas A&M made a large leap into the apical 10 of The Associated Press assemblage shot canvass Sunday aft its melodramatic triumph astatine Notre Dame, and the Irish became the archetypal squad since 1988 to enactment successful the Top 25 with an 0-2 record.

Ohio State, Penn State and LSU remained the apical 3 teams, with Miami moving up to No. 4 and Georgia to No. 5 adjacent aft a adjacent telephone astatine No. 15 Tennessee.

Oregon slipped 2 spots to No. 6 contempt a 20-point roadworthy triumph against Northwestern and was followed by Florida State, Texas, Illinois and the Aggies.

Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and USC made their play debuts successful the Top 25, portion South Carolina (No. 11 past week), Clemson (No. 12) and South Florida (No. 18) are dropped retired of the poll.

The Yellow Jackets, coming disconnected their triumph implicit Clemson, are 3-0 for the archetypal clip since 2016, and its No. 18 ranking is its highest since 2015. Meanwhile, Vandy, coming disconnected its 24-point triumph astatine South Carolina, is astatine No. 20 -- the Commodores' highest ranking since they started 5-0 successful 2008.

The Gamecocks were down 14-7 precocious successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile backmost LaNorris Sellers was knocked retired of the crippled with a concussion. Clemson, ranked No. 4 successful the preseason, hasn't been 1-2 since 2014.

No. 25 USC has its archetypal ranking since the archetypal week of past October.

Ohio State tussled with Ohio into the mediate of the 3rd 4th of a 37-9 triumph and received 55 first-place votes, 2 less than past week. Penn State got 5 first-place votes, LSU got two, Miami got 3 and Oregon got one. The Hurricanes' first-place votes are their archetypal since getting 3 connected Nov. 19, 2017.

Alabama was rewarded for its 24-point location triumph against Wisconsin ...