Baylor jumps OSU; Alabama keeps rolling in AP poll

11/17/2013

Baylor overtakes Ohio State in The Associated Press college football poll and Alabama becomes just the seventh team to hold the No. 1 ranking for 13 straight polls in a season.

The third-ranked Bears slip ahead of the fourth-ranked Buckeyes after Baylor beat Texas Tech 60-34 and Ohio State won 60-35 at Illinois on Saturday. Baylor has 1,351 points and Ohio State has 1,343.

Alabama remains No. 1, with 55 first-place votes from the media poll released Sunday. No. 2 Florida State has five first-place votes.

Oregon is fifth and Auburn is sixth.

Alabama has been No. 1 since the preseason. Only six preseason No. 1 teams have had longer uninterrupted stays than the Tide, including Southern California in 2004 and Florida State in 1999, the only wire-to-wire champions.

1. Alabama (55) 10-0

2. Florida St. (5) 10-0

3. Baylor 9-0

4. Ohio St. 10-0

5. Oregon 9-1

6. Auburn 10-1

7. Clemson 9-1

8. Missouri 9-1

9. Texas A&M 8-2

10. Stanford 8-2

11. Oklahoma St. 9-1

12. South Carolina 8-2

13. Michigan St. 9-1

14. UCLA 8-2

15. Fresno St. 9-0

16. Wisconsin 8-2

17. UCF 8-1

18. LSU 7-3

19. Arizona St. 8-2

20. N. Illinois 10-0

21. Louisville 9-1

22. Oklahoma 8-2

23. Southern Cal 8-3

24. Mississippi 7-3

25. Duke 8-2

Others receiving votes: Minnesota 77, Notre Dame 11, Texas 10, Georgia 5, Cincinnati 1, Nebraska 1.