Cal, Arizona St. move in to give Pac-12 six ranked

California and Arizona State moved into the AP Top 25 college football poll to give the Pac-12 six ranked teams, the most for the conference in almost four years.

A weekend filled with blowouts left the top half of the AP media poll mostly unchanged.

Clemson remains No. 1, with 57 of the 62 first-place votes, as the top nine held their spots Sunday. Alabama was No. 2, receiving five first-place votes, followed by Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Auburn and Florida.

The ninth-ranked Gators were the only top-10 team to play a competitive game. The others won by a combined 428-97.

Utah, the highest ranked Pac-12 team, moved up to No. 10. The last time the Pac12 had six ranked teams was Nov. 8, 2015.

The Pac-12 took a fair amount of grief the first week of the season after it suffered a few upsets to Mountain West teams and Oregon let a potentially big victory slip away against Auburn.

Now the conference has had a mini-resurgence, despite issues with some of its typically strong teams.

Stanford started the season ranked, but is 1-2 after getting dominated by UCF on Saturday. Southern California had a brief stay at the bottom of the rankings last week, falling out after losing in overtime at BYU on Saturday.

Utah is in the top 10 for the first time since November 2015. The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote:

Rec. Points

1. Clemson (57) 3-0 1,545 2. Alabama (5) 3-0 1,488 3. Georgia 3-0 1,386

4. LSU 3-0 1,339 5. Oklahoma 3-0 1,310

6. Ohio St. 3-0 1,292 7. Notre Dame 2-0 1,099 8. Auburn 3-0 1,079 9. Florida 3-0 959 10. Utah 3-0 929 11. Michigan 2-0 917 12. Texas 2-1 888 13. Penn St. 3-0 726 13. Wisconsin 2-0 726 15. UCF 3-0 703 16. Oregon 2-1 670 17. Texas A&M 2-1 665 18. Iowa 3-0 539 19. Washington St. 3-0 452 20. Boise St. 3-0 277 21. Virginia 3-0 252 22. Washington 2-1 183 23. California 3-0 164 24. Arizona St. 3-0 156 25. TCU 2-0 104 Others receiving votes: Kansas St. 91 (points), Oklahoma St. 51, Army 50, Michigan St. 37, Memphis 26, Wake Forest 14, BYU 12, Iowa St. 7, Temple 7, Mississippi St. 4, Appalachian St. 2, Minnesota 1. Prev. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 10 12 13 14 17 15 16 19 20 22 25 23 NR NR NR