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If you care about the polls you’ve probably already seen ‘em, but why waste another opportunity to over-analyze things?
| Rank | AP Poll | Coaches' Poll | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pts. | Trend | Team | Pts. | Trend | ||
| 1 | Alabama(50) | 1510 | — | Alabama(59) | 1571 | — | |
| 2 | Ohio State(4) | 1442 | UP 1 | Ohio State(3) | 1482 | UP 2 | |
| 3 | Louisville(6) | 1406 | UP 7 | Clemson(1) | 1405 | — | |
| 4 | Michigan(1) | 1277 | — | Louisville | 1331 | UP 6 | |
| 5 | Clemson | 1258 | — | Michigan | 1302 | — | |
| 6 | Houston | 1245 | — | Stanford | 1273 | — | |
| 7 | Stanford | 1195 | — | Houston | 1235 | — | |
| 8 | Michigan State | 1084 | UP 4 | Michigan State | 1156 | — | |
| 9 | Washington | 1040 | DN 1 | Washington | 1065 | — | |
| 10 | Texas A&M | 890 | UP 7 | Wisconsin | 872 | UP 2 | |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 828 | DN 2 | Georgia | 847 | UP 2 | |
| 12 | Georgia | 726 | UP 4 | Tennessee | 805 | UP 3 | |
| 13 | Florida State | 722 | DN 11 | Texas A&M | 791 | UP 7 | |
| 14 | Tennessee | 707 | UP 1 | Florida State | 742 | DN 12 | |
| 15 | Miami | 565 | UP 10 | Baylor | 658 | UP 4 | |
| 16 | Baylor | 529 | UP 5 | Florida | 598 | UP 7 | |
| 17 | Arkansas | 528 | UP 7 | LSU | 522 | UP 5 | |
| 18 | LSU | 517 | UP 2 | Arkansas | 500 | UP 6 | |
| 19 | Florida | 479 | UP 4 | Miami | 441 | UP 6 | |
| 20 | Nebraska | 420 | — | Nebraska | 373 | — | |
| 21 | Texas | 196 | DN 10 | Ole Miss | 166 | DN 4 | |
| 22 | San Diego State | 183 | — | TCU | 166 | — | |
| 23 | Ole Miss | 172 | DN 4 | Utah | 155 | — | |
| 24 | Utah | 154 | — | Texas | 143 | DN 8 | |
| 25 | Oklahoma | 139 | DN 11 | Iowa | 140 | DN 14 | |