Associated Press 2021 Week 5 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll Includes Two Big 12 Teams, One Big 12 Traitor

 

The 2021 Associated Press Week 5 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll includes two Big 12 teams, Oklahoma State (#19) and Baylor (#21), and one Big 12 traitor, Oklahoma (#6). 

Big 12 teams Iowa State and Kansas State and Big 12 traitor Texas are listed among "others receiving votes." Iowa State is in 32nd place (25 points). Kansas State is in 38th place (five points). Texas (131 points) is in 26th 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 5 AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

1. Alabama, 4-0 (58 first-place votes) (1546 total points)
2. Georgia, 4-0 (4) (1492)
3. Oregon, 4-0 (1411)
4. Penn State, 4-0 (1283)
5. Iowa, 4-0 (1277)
6. Oklahoma, 4-0 (1212)
7. Cincinnati, 3-0 (1154)
8. Arkansas, 4-0 (1094)
9. Notre Dame, 4-0 (1076)
10. Florida, 3-1 (1019)
11. Ohio State, 3-1 (1005)
12. Ole Miss, 3-0 (852)
13. BYU, 4-0 (748)
14. Michigan, 4-0 (677)
15. Texas A&M, 3-1 (651)
16. Coastal Carolina, 4-0 (613)
17. Michigan State, 4-0 (581)
18. Fresno State, 4-1 (415)
19. Oklahoma State, 4-0 (341)
20. UCLA, 3-1 (316)
21. Baylor, 4-0 (233)
22. Auburn, 3-1 (197)
23. NC State, 3-1 (145)
24. Wake Forest, 4-0 (142)
25. Clemson 2-2, (138)
    

Others receiving votes: Texas 131, Maryland 91, San Diego State 57, Boston College 55, SMU 44, Kentucky 26, Iowa State 25, LSU 24, Arizona State 23, Virginia Tech 20, Wisconsin 13, Rutgers 6, Kansas State 5, UTSA 4, Oregon State 4, Louisville 3, North Carolina 1.