Associated Press 2021 Week 3 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll Includes One Big 12 Team, One Big 12 Traitor

 

The 2021 Associated Press Week 3 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll includes one Big 12 team, Iowa State (#14) and one Big 12 traitor, Oklahoma (#3). 

Big 12 teams TCU, Kansas State and Texas Tech, and Big 12 traitor Texas are listed among "others receiving votes." TCU (103 points) is in 27th place. Kansas State (30 points) is in 33rd place. Oklahoma State (27 points) is in 29th place. Texas Tech (2 points) is in 39th place. Texas (23 points) is in 30th place.

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This season marks the 86th edition of the AP rankings.

The Associated Press began its college football poll on October 19, 1936. It is the longest-running poll of those that award national titles at the end of the season. The preseason poll was started in 1950. A panel of 60 sports writers and broadcasters from around the country votes on the poll weekly. The AP Top 25 is determined by a simple points system based on how each voter ranks the teams. A team receives 25 points for each first- place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the point totals from highest to lowest. 

Here is the 2021 Week 3 AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

1. Alabama, 2-0 (6o first-place votes) (1572 total points) 
2. Georgia, 2-0 (3) (1514) 
3. Oklahoma, 2-0 (1402) 
4. Oregon, 2-0 (1355) 
5. Iowa, 2-0 (1263) 
6. Clemson, 1-1 (1246) 
7. Texas A&M, 2-0 (1206) 
8. Cincinnati, 2-0 (1149) 
9. Ohio State, 1-1 (1029) 
10. Penn State, 2-0 (1005) 
11. Florida, 2-0 (935) 
12. Notre Dame, 2-0 (926) 
13. UCLA, 2-0 (804) 
14. Iowa State, 1-1 (593)
15. Virginia Tech, 2-0 (591) 
16. Coastal Carolina, 2-0 (562) 
17. Ole Miss, 2-0 (550) 
18. Wisconsin, 1-1 (499) 
19. Arizona State, 2-0 (341) 
20. Arkansas, 2-0 (277) 
21. North Carolina, 1-1 (268) 
22. Auburn, 2-0 (233) 
23. BYU, 2-0 (213) 
24. Miami, 1-1 (177) 
25. Michigan, 2-0 (180)

Others receiving votes: UCF 111, TCU 103, Liberty 52, Michigan State 44, USC 39, Indiana 34, LSU 31, Kansas State 30, Nevada 28, Oklahoma State 27, Texas 23, Maryland 14, Pittsburgh 13, Kentucky 13, Stanford 10, Utah 9, Boston College 8, Arizona 6, Toledo 2, Texas Tech 2, Fresno State 2, Army 1.