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Week 12 AP Football Poll: Duke #19

By John Woodcock

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Quack. Quack. That sound you hear is the difference between this week’s Coaches Poll and the Week 12 AP Football Poll. It is the Oregon Ducks that have moved into the three spot over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The AP Poll still has the Baylor-TCU problem, where Baylor is ranked behind TCU. The Big Ten contender for the playoff is now Ohio State, not Michigan State, and we have probably heard the last of politicking from Spartans coach Mark Dantonio.

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The playoff picture would seem to have simplified. The Pac 12 representative will likely be Arizona State or Oregon. The Big Ten contender will be Nebraska or Ohio State. The fourth spot seems up in the air right now. The only real road for two SEC teams is Alabama beating Mississippi State so that neither of those teams fall to two losses. The other routes would consider teams with two losses and we aren’t there yet.

The Duke Blue Devils are #19 in this poll as well. The last weeks will show how far they can rise, but again I do no think it will be enough.
Colorado State and Marshall are both in the bottom handful of this poll as well, just like they were in the Amway Coaches Poll.

Week 12 AP Football Poll
1. Mississippi State Bulldogs (48)
2. Florida State Seminoles (12)
3. Oregon Ducks
4. Alabama Crimson Tide

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    • 5. TCU Horned Frogs
    6. Baylor Bears
    7. Arizona State Sun Devils
    8. Ohio State Buckeyes
    9. Auburn Tigers
    10. Ole Miss Rebels
    11. Nebraska Cornhuskers
    12. Michigan State Spartans
    13. Kansas State Wildcats
    14. UCLA Bruins
    15. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
    16. Georgia Bulldogs
    17. Arizona Wildcats
    18. Clemson Tigers
    19. Duke Blue Devils
    20. LSU Tigers
    21. Marshall Thundering Herd
    22. Wisconsin Badgers
    23. Colorado State Rams
    24. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
    25. Utah Utes

    Others receiving votes:

    Oklahoma (6-3) 85; Texas A&M (7-3) 83; Missouri (7-2) 68; Southern California (6-3) 47; Minnesota (7-2) 26; Louisville (7-3) 12; West Virginia (6-4) 6; Stanford (5-4) 4; Miami (Fla.) (6-3) 1; Boise State (7-2) 1; Georgia Southern (8-2) 1

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