NSAwins.com has posted the College Football Top 25 AP Poll for Week 8 of the 2009 NCAA Football season. Alabama has supplanted Florida as the the nation’s new #1 team in this week’s AP Poll. Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide are 7-0 and have won all seven games by 10 points or more. Florida, which had been #1 all season thus far, dropped to #2 after saturday’s close 23-20 win against Arkansas as a -24.5 point favorite. Texas remains #3 after saturday’s hard fought 16-13 win over Oklahoma in the Red River rivalry, while USC and Cincinnati round out this week’s top 5. The rest of the top 10 includes Boise St, Iowa, Miami-Fl, LSU and TCU(in that order). The poll welcomes three new teams to the rankings this week, as Pittsburgh(20), Texas Tech(21) and West Virginia(22) have earned their way into the rankings after impressive wins last week. Nebraska, South Florida and Notre Dame all dropped out of the poll this week. Please look below for the official Week 8 College Football Top 25 AP Poll rankings.
NCAAF Rankings AP Top 25: Week 8
Records through Sun Oct 18, 2009
Rank Team Record Pts Last Week
1. Alabama (39) 7-0 1447 2
2. Florida (20) 6-0 1434 1
3. Texas 6-0 1365 3
4. USC 5-1 1213 6
5. Cincinnati 6-0 1163 8
6. Boise St. 6-0 1156 5
7. Iowa 7-0 1092 11
8. Miami (FL) 5-1 1056 9
9. LSU 5-1 1014 10
10. TCU 6-0 1001 12
11. Georgia Tech 6-1 861 19
12. Oregon 5-1 849 13
13. Penn St. 6-1 753 14
14. Oklahoma St. 5-1 690 16
15. Virginia Tech 5-2 684 4
16. BYU 6-1 601 18
17. Houston 5-1 478 23
18. Ohio St. 5-2 373 7
19. Utah 5-1 350 24
20. Pittsburgh 6-1 330 NR
21. Texas Tech 5-2 286 NR
22. West Virginia 5-1 205 NR
23. South Carolina 5-2 159 22
24. Kansas 5-1 120 17
25. Oklahoma 3-3 117 20
Others Receiving Votes:
Notre Dame 61, Mississippi 59, South Florida 57, Nebraska 52, Michigan 41, Cent. Michigan 39, Arizona 25, California 9, Arkansas 8, Oregon St. 5, Wisconsin 4, Navy 4, Idaho 4, Missouri 4, Boston Coll. 3, Auburn 3
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