{"id":105320,"date":"2022-10-23T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projecting-ap-top-25-rankings-entering-week-9\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T04:58:12","slug":"projecting-ap-top-25-rankings-entering-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projecting-ap-top-25-rankings-entering-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Projecting AP Top 25 rankings entering Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Clemson survived a scare from Syracuse, but fellow top 10 unbeatens Ole Miss and UCLA weren&#8217;t as lucky on the road Saturday, results that are guaranteed to shake up Sunday&#8217;s Week 9 AP Top 24 rankings.  Our projection includes drops for the Rebels and the Bruins after losses to LSU and Oregon, who each improved their resume and overall stock with notable victories.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Clemson trailed by 11 points in the second half to the Orange, but was able to overcome four turnovers with a comeback win to take sole possession of first place in the ACC Atlantic.  One of the most pivotal night games in Week 8 was unbeaten TCU&#8217;s home comeback over Kansas State.  The Horned Frogs won their fourth straight game over a nationally-ranked team for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the other notable prime-time games, South Carolina held off Texas A&#038;M to record its fourth consecutive victory, which could vault the Gamecocks into Sunday&#8217;s new poll for the first time since the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Subscribe to 247Sports YouTube for the latest college football, basketball and recruiting news including live college commitments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how we think the Week 9 AP Top 25 will look after several unbeatens said their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n    if(typeof fbq === 'undefined') {\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.defer=1;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '320233411816140');\n        fbq('init', '1575186632756631');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; Clemson survived a scare from Syracuse, but fellow top 10 unbeatens Ole Miss and UCLA weren&#8217;t as lucky on the road Saturday, results that are guaranteed to shake up Sunday&#8217;s Week 9 AP Top 24 rankings. Our projection includes drops for the Rebels and the Bruins after losses to LSU and Oregon, who &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/projecting-ap-top-25-rankings-entering-week-9\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Projecting AP Top 25 rankings entering Week 9<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105946,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ap-top-25-lsu-re-enters-at-no-18-ahead-of-visit-from-bama\/","url_meta":{"origin":105320,"position":0},"title":"AP Top 25: LSU re-enters at No.  18 ahead of visit from &#8216;Bama","date":"October 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"LSU re-entered The Associated Press College Football poll at No. 18 on Sunday and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the first time in four seasons.The first six teams in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank held their spots after either winning and not playing this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":105093,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-5-clemson-storms-back-from-halftime-deficit-knocks-off-no-14-syracuse-27-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":105320,"position":1},"title":"no.  5 Clemson storms back from halftime deficit, knocks off No.  14 Syracuse 27-21","date":"October 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Clemson found a way to get it done.In a battle of ACC undefeated, the fifth-ranked Tigers found themselves trailing No. 14 Syracuse 21-10 at halftime. 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