SEC Boasts 7 Teams in Top 15, 8 in Top 20

Whether you are a fan of the SEC or not, the conference continues to amass a huge reputation when it comes to voters in the AP Top 25 Poll. For Week 4, the conference boasts five teams in the top 10, seven in the top 15 and 8 in the top 20.

Here is the official AP Top 20 with the SEC schools formatted in bold:

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1. Florida State Seminoles (2-0)
2. Oregon Ducks (3-0)
3. Alabama Crimson Tide (3-0)
4. Oklahoma Sooners (3-0)
5. Auburn Tigers (2-0)
6. Texas A&M Aggies (3-0)
7. Baylor Bears (3-0)
8. LSU Tigers (3-0)
9. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-0)
10. Ole Miss Rebels (3-0)
11. Michigan State Spartans (1-1)
12. UCLA Bruins (3-0)
13. Georgia Bulldogs (1-1)
14. South Carolina Gamecocks (2-1)
15. Arizona State Sun Devils (3-0)
16. Stanford Cardinal (2-1)
17. USC Trojans (2-1)
18. Missouri Tigers (3-0)
19. Wisconsin Badgers (1-1)
20. Kansas State Wildcats (2-0)
21. BYU Cougars (3-0)
22. Clemson Tigers (1-1)
23. Ohio State Buckeyes (2-1)
24. Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-0)
25. Oklahoma State Cowboys (2-1)

Top 25 breakdown by conference:

• SEC: 8 teams
• ACC: 2 teams
• Big 12: 4 teams
• Big 10: 4 teams
• PAC 12: 5 teams

Notes:

• Even though South Carolina defeated Georgia on Saturday and the Gamecocks have one more victory than the Bulldogs, Georgia is still ranked one position higher. This is mainly attributed to South Carolina’s blowout loss to Texas A&M on the opening Thursday of the season.
• The SEC has had eight teams ranked in the top 25 for the third straight week along with five teams in the top 10 for the past two weeks.
• Florida State garnered 37 first place votes as opposed to 38 a week ago — the extra vote was lost to Oregon who now has 17.
• No. 4 Oklahoma beat an SEC team, Tennessee, that was not in the top 25.
• Notre Dame is back in the top 10 for the first time since 2012, the year they went to the national championship game and were crushed by Alabama.

This week’s games:

There will be a few games this week regarding top 25 teams that could shake up the polls by this time next week (all times EST):

• No. 5 Auburn at No. 20 Kansas State (Thursday 7:30 PM)
• Florida at No. 3 Alabama (Saturday 3:30 PM)
• Mississippi State at No. 8 LSU (Saturday 7:30 PM)
• No. 4 Oklahoma at West Virginia (Saturday 7:30 PM)
• No. 22 Clemson at No. 1 Florida State (Saturday 8:00 PM)
• No. 2 Oregon at Washington State (Saturday 10:30 PM)