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    Home Sports AP Top 25: USC moves into top 5 for 1st time in 5 years
    AP Top 25: USC moves into top 5 for 1st time in 5 years
    College Sports, Football, National Sports
    November 21, 2022

    AP Top 25: USC moves into top 5 for 1st time in 5 years

    Southern California moved into the top five of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday for the first time in five years.

    Georgia received 62 of the 63 first-place votes in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank as the top four teams held their places after playing varying degrees of close games Saturday.

    No. 2 Ohio State received the other first-place vote. Michigan was No. 3 again, followed by TCU.

    The fifth-ranked Trojans edged up two spots after a thrilling victory against rival UCLA. The last time USC was ranked in the top five was September of 2017, when it started at No. 4 but spent most of the season ranked in the teens before finishing 12th.

    Lincoln Riley’s first season as USC coach has produced one of the best turnarounds in the country, with the Trojans going from four wins to 10, and the regular-season finale against No. 13 Notre Dame and a Pac-12 championship game still to go.

    “If you would have told me at the end of last season I would be here now with this group of guys and being able to play for a championship, I would have called you a dead liar. Just being completely honest,” USC fourth-year receiver Kyle Ford told reporters after the UCLA game. “I’m just so thankful for everyone on this team.”

    LSU stayed at No. 6. Clemson moved up two spots to No. 7. Alabama held at eighth and Tennessee dropped four spots to No. 9 after getting upset in a blowout at South Carolina.

    In their 63-38 victory, the Gamecocks scored more points against a top-five team as an unranked team than any in the history of the AP poll.

    Oregon rounded out the top 10 after the Ducks beat Utah in the Pac-12’s other marquee game on Saturday night.

    POLL POINTS

    Georgia set a school record with its 10th appearance at No. 1 this season. Last year the Bulldogs had nine No. 1s, the most in school history.

    Georgia has been at No. 1 a total of 34 times, tying Michigan for 12th most in the history of the AP poll, which dates to 1936.

    Southern California is a top-five team for the 283rd time in poll history. That’s seventh most, 13 behind Nebraska.

    The top five at being top five: Alabama (451), Oklahoma (430), Ohio State (418), Notre Dame (318) and Michigan (306).

    IN

    Texas, again.

    The 24th-ranked Longhorns, who started the season unranked, have moved into the Top 25 four times. They haven’t managed to stay there for more than two weeks.

    A blowout victory against Kansas pushed the Longhorns back into the rankings as they head toward a season finale against Baylor.

    OUT

    Oklahoma State lost its rivalry game against Oklahoma to drop to 7-4 and out of the rankings again.

    CONFERENCE CALL

    Pac-12 — 6 (Nos. 5, 10, 12, 14, 17, 22).

    SEC — 5 (Nos. 1, 6, 8, 9, 20).

    ACC — 3 (Nos. 7, 16, 18).

    American — 3 (Nos. 19, 21, 25).

    Big Ten — 3 (Nos. 2, 3, 11).

    Big 12 — 3 (Nos. 4, 15, 24).

    Sun Belt — 1 (No. 23).

    Independent — 1 (No. 13).

    RANKED vs. RANKED

    Rivalry weekend’s highest stakes games:

    — No. 19 Tulane at No. 21 Cincinnati, Friday. The winner hosts the AAC championship game.

    — No. 10 Oregon at No. 22 Oregon State. First time since 2012 both are ranked.

    — No. 3 Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State. The best combined ranking between the two were also 2-3 heading into the 2016, decided in overtime by a fourth-down spot.

    — No. 13 Notre Dame at No. 5 USC. First time both have been ranked since 2017.

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    By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

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