In the second AP poll of the season, the Fighting Irish (2-0) are up one spot to number eight. Surprised? Don’t be. This is just reward for beating a FBS, Power-5 opponent on a weekend in which two top twenty-five, SEC teams were tested (Auburn) and bested (Arkansas) by Jacksonville State and Toledo.
This week’s opponent, Georgia Tech, is also up one, to fifteen. Clemson is up one to eleven. USC is up two spots to six. 
The log jam at the top creaked a little, as MSU stole two of tOSU’s votes. MSU beat Oregon Saturday night and jumped to the fourth spot over Baylor, who dropped one to five. The top three, OSU, Alabama, and TCU, are unchanged.
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Hating Hurricanes Since 1990.
Bayou Irish is a Jersey boy and Double Domer who fell under New Orleans' spell in 1995. He's been through Katrina and fourteen years in the Coast Guard, so we cut him some slack, mostly in the form of HLS-subsidized sazeracs. But, when he's not face down on the bar and communing with the ghosts of Faulkner and Capote at the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone, he's our man in SEC-land, doing his best to convince everyone around him that Graduation Success Rate is a better indicator of success than the number of MNC's won in the last five years.
Hating Hurricanes Since 1990.
Bayou Irish is a Jersey boy and Double Domer who fell under New Orleans' spell in 1995. He's been through Katrina and fourteen years in the Coast Guard, so we cut him some slack, mostly in the form of HLS-subsidized sazeracs. But, when he's not face down on the bar and communing with the ghosts of Faulkner and Capote at the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone, he's our man in SEC-land, doing his best to convince everyone around him that Graduation Success Rate is a better indicator of success than the number of MNC's won in the last five years.
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