Week 3 of the 2020 school football season did not have many “observation” games on the show, but there was more than enough action to send waves through the Associated Press Top 25.
The Top 10 remains unchanged apart from Texas, which joined Auburn in 8th place. 1 Clemson and No. 7 Notre Dame were the groups that played this weekend, and threw bleach opposites to enemies overcome.
In the remaining 60% of the survey, however, we were presented with the first ranked game vs. The state of Appalachia and Louisiana needs extra hours to win its game opposed to the state of Georgia.
It is true that it was the calm before the storm. Not only will next week mark the start of the SEC season, but the Big Ten groups will also be welcomed into the AP Top 25 on September 27. It will be a redesign of the deck.
But before we look to the future, let’s take one last look at Week 3 to call out some winners and losers from the latest AP poll.
As for the winners and losers of the AP, it is much bigger than taking the road and comfortably taking care of a classified opponent.
That’s exactly what Louisiana did to the state of Iowa last week and went from 0 to 19 in the survey. This week, it’s Miami’s turn to distribute vigour on the tour, scoring at will in a 47-34 victory in 18th place in Louisville.
The victory propelled the Hurricanes to the most sensible rankings from 17 to 12.
The consistency of the quarterback and kicker had prevailed in Miami in recent years, especially in 2019. Ni Jarren Williams or N’Kosi Perry can be reliable in the pocket, and the Canes had another 3 kickers for a 12 out of 20 in box-purpose attempts.
But this victory over Louisville proved that the Eriq King and José Borregales QB-K combo is one of the most productive in the country, in fact the most productive assembled moving portal.
Houston’s move totaled 325 yards and three touchdowns, while Florida International’s move tired of all four goals in his box, adding a 57-yard one that passed with plenty of plenty of area.
The defense still has a long way to go. Louisville scored four touchdowns in the middle of the moment, and each practice lasted at least seven plays and covered more than 70 yards. It’s hard to believe Miami can put up with Clemson on October 10 with this kind of defensive effort.
However, at least we have the idea that the U is back, in any case, it is back in the TOP 15 of the AP vote for the first time since the 2018 preseason.
At first, it looked like the Appalachian State opposed Marshall and it would be an exciting one-minute shooting.
In first practice, Marshall’s star runner, Brenden Knox, ran five times for 49 yards and gave Thundering Herd a 7-0 lead. The mountaineers returned immediately with an 85-yard touchdown, scored through a shot of Jalen Virgil on a fading field with a defender covered by him.
But then everything stopped, especially for the state of Appalachia. The mountaineers entered Marshall’s territory in five possessions, but could not put any more problems on the board.
The most heartbreaking of those campaigns happened at the beginning of the last quarter, with a 17-7 kill and in front of the 4th and 4th inches in Marshall 46, they did so with Zac Thomas locating Mike Evans for a massive victory, however, he lost the ball just before achieving the finish zone and Marshall’s Nazeeh Johnson jumped down for a touchdown.
The Mountaineers also lost a smart-fire basket with less than 3 minutes to play, in a 17-7 defeat. Since joining the FBS for the 2014 season, this is the first time they have been limited to one digit.
Even if they had won that game, the Mountaineers will most likely retire from the AP Top 25 in a week anyway. They entered the week at number 23 and the reintroduction of big ten into the ballot rankings on September 27. It will inevitably force a handful of groups lately classified in the “Others receiving votes” segment. But App State made it much easier to resolve, completely abandoning radar with loss.
You have to like the classic reaction of a draw but counter when an unranked team beats an opponent in the back of the Top 25 and more or less takes that opponent’s position in the standings.
Marshall probably deserved to go through an AP poll. Thundering Herd entered the year as one of the most sensitive contenders to win the U. S. Conference and smoked eastern Kentucky 59-0 to open the season on September 5.
Beating the Appalachian 23rd state enough to push them over the hump, making their debut at number 25 in the new poll.
It had been a hot minute since Marshall last defeated a ranked opponent. Thundering Herd stunned Kansas State No. 6 on September 20, 2003, but had lost 17 consecutive games to ranked groups ever since. cash in a similar, low-scoring deal at the start of last season, but repeating that loss 14-7, they won 17-7 over the Mountaineers.
As happened last year, Brenden Knox was the star of the show, running 28 times for 138 yards and a landing, but one of the game’s most important games was a deep pass from Grant Wells to Xavier Gaines. The quarterback connected with his tight veteran in the middle of the area for a 67-yard gain. the 3rd trimester.
Unfortunately, the atrocious herd probably wouldn’t be able to play a bachelor game on a ranked team. His next scheduled game is October 10, and a horde of Big Ten groups will likely force the herd out of the standings up to that point. though I know. They may surrender temporarily and then sneak in with the help of other wasting groups. Either way, they will spend at least a while on the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2014.
Oklahoma State was the only Big 12 team to play this weekend, and the Cowboys did little for the convention’s general belief after last week’s 0-3 record opposed to the Sun Belt.
With last year’s top productive corridor (Chuba Hubbard) and one of the highest productive receivers from beyond two seasons (Tylan Wallace), great things were expected from this Oklahoma State attack in 2020. Cowboys averaged in 2017, but in fact more than they showed in the first game against Tulsa.
They won with an equally anemic (and more penalty-prone) Golden Hurricane offense, however, the Cowboys were limited to just 16 numbers and 277 total yards. This production of the film was the first time they had finished a game below 280 since the 2014 season.
Incumbent Quarterback Spencer Sanders injured his ankle in Oklahoma State’s first practice. He went out to the box for the time being, but lied to the locker room after a getaway and did not return.
The replacements are juCO transferor Ethan Bullock and genuine new final Shane Illingworth, two boys who were not on the list last season and who had little chance of upgrading this off-season due to the pandemic. So at least it’s understandable that they did. Move the ball against a respectable Tulsa high school. However, it was a depressing performance, and the Cowboys dropped from 11th to 15th place as a result.
Elsewhere in the Big 12, Baylor had intended to have a season opener opposite Houston, but that was postponed less than 24 hours before kickoff. game, it would mean they would move to the Top 25 after the losses of the 18th Louisville and 23rd State Appalachians.
Instead, they were overtaken through Marshall, and Louisville did not fall far enough to pass through the Bears.
Even without Big Ten or Pac-12 in the Top 25, the Big 12 has 3 teams ranked, and one of them lost a lot of favor among the electorate on Saturday.
We’ll see how it stays when Pittsburgh starts facing bigger opponents, this defense emits the vibrations of the early “steel curtain. “
In last week’s 55-0 win over Austin Peay, the Panthers kept the governors at 137 total yards and forced three ball losses. More than 40% of the yards came here at a 57-yard reception for singles.
A similar story this week opposed to Syracuse. They allowed some problems in the 21-10 win, however, the Oranges achieved 171 total offensive yards and forced two more ball losses. Again, more than 40 consistent with one hundred yards came here in one play: a 69-yard landing for Taj Harris.
Other than that, Syracuse did not have a bachelor play of more than 12 meters, the only explanation for why the Oranges were also able to put a basket in the area due to a getaway that gave them the ball at Pitt 14.
Take those numbers with a grain of salt. Syracuse’s offense was just as bad last week against North Carolina, and Austin Peay had strangely 20 issues opposed to Cincinnati this week, we’re still talking about an FCS team. Next week’s game opposing Louisville will be a much tougher test, as it will be the next clashes with Miami, Notre Dame and Clemson.
But Pittsburgh had a forged defense last year and is already in the game on this aspect of the field.
The Panthers made their 25th place debut last week and climbed 4 spots to 21 before that clash with the Cardinals.
All the smart things we just said about the Pittsburgh defense?
yes, you may not find any of the compliments here.
Louisville’s defense was frankly appalling in his 47-34 loss to Miami on Saturday night.
Miami scored in four of its first five possessions with conversions in 3 and 10, 3 and 12 and 3 and 14. At one point, Miami oversteered a 74-yard play with a penalty, so he fell five yards and won 31 on the next play instead.
At least the Cardinals controlled to force plays on the third attempt of the first half.
On Miami’s first play in the third quarter, Cam’Ron Harris scored on a 75-yard landing that he didn’t even hit just before the line of purpose. In the Third Quarter Miami moment game, Jaylan Knighton drove a single wheel and jammed the ball without a single defender within 10 yards of him. He also scored a 75-yard landing. Then, in the last quarter, it was Brevin Jordan’s turn to get a failed coverage, running wide in the middle of the area for a score of 47 yards.
But what else is new, isn’t it? Cardinals have given up at least 50 problems seven times in the 2018 season. They were older last year, but not by far, consistent with 36. 2 problems consistent with the game opposed to FBS opponents, adding a 52-27 defeat to what was then a rather terrible attack in Miami.
Louisville claimed to be one of acc’s marginal contenders thanks to an attack led by Field Marshal Malik Cunningham, RB star Javian Hawkins and TUtu’s WR tandem Atwell and Dez Fitzpatrick.
The Cardinals ranked 18th in the AP poll, but have now returned to 24th place, although it is a little unexpected that they are classified.