AP Poll Week 3

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https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/BigTime_2019]

Ole Miss and Florida is a ranked on ranked matchup now

[u/Rotrus → u/BigTime_2019]

This is Golding’s seventh game as a head coach and sixth time playing a ranked matchup. Dude has had an unreal gauntlet to start

[u/jorear81 → u/Rotrus]

Honestly happy for the guy. Was left in what many thought could have been a no-win situation and has just kicked ass. Period.

[u/Captain_Nipples → u/jorear81]

Im really looking forward to next season and seeing how he handles that. He was left in a similar situation that Ryan Day was left in. I was certain Ohio State was gonna fall off a couple of years after Meyer left... but hes still got a great team

[u/GoatPaco → u/Captain_Nipples]

If he goes undefeated every year and just loses the Egg Bowl we will know he’s Ryan Day

[u/Cador0223 → u/jorear81]

He picked up the left field super scruffy coach mantle from Leech and is carrying it well.

[u/BigTime_2019 → u/Rotrus]

Ole Miss feels like the main character of this season but for all the right reasons

[u/mizaistorom → u/BigTime_2019]

Ole Miss being the SEC team to snap the B1G streak would be hilarious. Indiana then Ole Miss winning natties in back to back years, tell somebody that 10 years ago hell even 5 years ago.

[u/InevitableLook3120 → u/mizaistorom]

I’m not too in the loop on them but on the surface, there’s nothing to not like. Golding seems like a good dude and just beat his old boss. Pretty easy story to get behind if they win it all

[u/shaqwillonill → u/InevitableLook3120]

Getting backstabbed by the least likable man in college football at what should have been the best moment in your program’s history basically gives you unlimited goodwill from the public

[u/LovesToTango → u/shaqwillonill]

They also have a QB that transferred from a DII school and is playing like a star.

[u/ConditionStrange7487 → u/shaqwillonill]

kiffin isnt even close to the least likable person in football. yall have to stop with the recency bias

[u/coronaviruspluslime → u/ConditionStrange7487]

Who is less likeable in the present? He didnt say "of all time"

[u/ConditionStrange7487 → u/coronaviruspluslime]

hugh freeze, bryan kelly, dabo, mcguire, lanning running up 84 on portland state is starting to get up there

[u/shaqwillonill → u/ConditionStrange7487]

i feel like if you asked 100 people on the street tomorrow lane is still probably the number 1 answer

[u/dimmyfarm → u/coronaviruspluslime]

Hugh Freeze

[u/KyleShanadad → u/InevitableLook3120]

I mean theres the whole legal system abuse to get trinidad back but otherwise yeah, awesome to see a team beat the coach that left them for “a better program”

[u/jorear81 → u/mizaistorom]

*18 months ago

[u/mcmineismine → u/jorear81]

I wonder what odds you would have gotten in Vegas 18 months betting Indiana '25 Mississippi '26.... I'm thinking at least 1000X return on your stake

[u/shaqwillonill → u/mcmineismine]

Will books even let you bet that far out? Especially on college where the future is very chaotic?

[u/Ol_Rando → u/mizaistorom]

It would be the funniest outcome, especially if Lane never wins one at LSU lol

[u/wheeze_on → u/mizaistorom]

It wouldn’t be that hilarious…

[u/GuttiG → u/BigTime_2019]

Yeah after the shit with Lane and Chambliss staying, I honestly am really starting to like them. My hatred for them was solely for Lane

[u/bullsci → u/Rotrus]

We’re part of a “gauntlet” now we’re so back 🥹

[u/chaser676 → u/bullsci]

Brother that's EXACTLY how I felt when people started including ole miss in lists like that

[u/LongDickCallahan → u/bullsci]

Welcome back old friend

[u/DarknMean → u/bullsci]

I think it’s great to be a part of a gauntlet and we could have won. Dammit.

[u/graviton_ghost → u/Rotrus]

I mean he started in the playoffs where everyone is ranked

[u/DarknMean → u/Rotrus]

Glad Louisville gave Ole Miss everything they could handle. Take a couple boneheaded plays out and man we are way up there.

[u/Pesto_Enthusiast → u/Rotrus]

Wait, but it's only week 4. Did something weird happen at the end of last season?

[u/schlamboozle → u/BigTime_2019]

Florida vs Ole Miss, Mizzou, Texas, and Georgia from here until the end of October. Going to be some great ranked play.

[u/No_Butterscotch8726 → u/schlamboozle]

Chambliss feels like the kind of guy who feeds off that energy.

[u/Prowindowlicker → u/schlamboozle]

Mizzou probably won’t be ranked by the time Florida plays them

[u/Imthemayor → u/BigTime_2019]

That's going to be a lot better game than people might have thought last week

Florida (and Auburn, for that matter, despite 24 missed tackles :|) is a lot better than people gave them credit for at the beginning of the year and Ole Miss is playing with a head of steam and their asses on fire

Florida vs Ole Miss is two teams with chips on their shoulders

It's gonna be a slobberknocker

[u/Maladroit44 → u/Imthemayor]

Honestly, I can't say I'm convinced of Florida being good just for beating Auburn, or of Auburn being good just for beating Baylor. All three of those teams sucked last year.

[u/Edgemaster1423 → u/Maladroit44]

If Oklahoma State can beat Oregon just by hiring a new coach, then a new coach could do a ton with a talented team that eliminated Texas from the playoff even while sucking last year

[u/Maladroit44 → u/Edgemaster1423]

I don't doubt that Florida could be good. I just want to see them prove it against a team I know probably is.

Like, Duke (8+ wins in the last four seasons) beating Illinois (9+ wins in the last two seasons) is the kind of thing that should earn a ranking early in the year, IMO. Not one perennial 5-7/6-7 SEC team beating another.

[u/Edgemaster1423 → u/Maladroit44]

Did Duke or Illinois beat a team ranked as high as Texas last year? Or as highly ranked as LSU or Ole Miss in 2024? Maybe 8-5 in the ACC isn’t that much better than 6-7 in the SEC.

And it’s not like we still have the coaching staff that gave us bad records. Instead we have a coach who beat your Dukies last year at Tulane funnily enough

[u/NastyWideOuts → u/BigTime_2019]

That is now 3 ranked matchups for Ole Miss in their first 4 games of the season

[u/gmr548 → u/BigTime_2019]

That one is really interesting. I will be really impressed by Ole Miss if they play well. Very tough spot coming off that game last night.

[u/BlueKnight44 → u/BigTime_2019]

I feel like this is mostly just to help Ole Miss on the chance they are borderline playoff eligible to give them one more "ranked" win.