Week 4 AP Poll

After beating N.C. State, Tech drops five spots to the first in "Others receiving votes".

Don't have the full poll because I'm on mobile.

Others receiving votes:
Virginia Tech 195, Louisiana-Lafayette 126, * Minnesota 110, * USC 104, Kansas State 60, SMU 37, Marshall 31, Baylor 22, * Iowa 16, * Utah 14, Virginia 12, Arkansas State 11, UAB 5, Washington 4, Kentucky 4, Louisville 4, Army 3

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Eh, take care of business and the ranking will take care of itself. I'll gladly take the added motivation for the good guys

"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

"We was robbed!"

Ut Prosim Ad Dei Gloriam

Memphis beat us out of #25 by one point. Probably woulda beaten them out if we hadn'tve taken that knee at the one. /s

"I don't know how many years on this earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it." -Dr. Mantis Toboggan

Found it interesting big ten teams are already ranked.

Chick Patty w/ Cheese

The rule they're going with this season is that a conference is eligible for the poll once they're scheduled to play the following week.

Big Ten doesn't play for 3 more weeks.

I believe I read they were eligible once their schedule was released.

I assume this is because of the Big 10 getting included in the new poll?

Definitely

Chick Patty w/ Cheese

Wait how do we drop out of the top 25 for winning convincingly?

Reach for Excellence!

VT Football: It'll get after ya!

Proud Hokie since 2004.

We were only ranked because the Big 10 wasn't previously eligible.

Ahh. Thanks for the heads up. Thought the ranking was too good to be true.

Reach for Excellence!

VT Football: It'll get after ya!

Proud Hokie since 2004.

Na we got dropped, even with the 4 Big10 teams and the 1 pac12 team we'd still be 25th.

VT moved way up when the UVA game was canceled

You're right; we'd have been #25 last week. Mississippi State jumped up after beating LSU, and nobody dropped behind us.

The major change was new teams.

and the PAC-12 as well...Oregon went from not ranked at all (in either poll) to being 14 in the AP.

Should have postponed again /s

If you thought selecting teams for the playoff was controversial before, just you wait until a 6-0 Ohio State with cancellations against Penn St. and Michigan gets in over 11-1 Clemson or something. I have a feeling this is gonna get ugly quick.

I get the sentiment, but that example is way too extreme. It would never happen.

You still underestimate 2020, I see.

No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

seriously... we're just at the 3/4 mark of 2020 and there is still plenty of time for more things to go sideways, inverted, etc... dont temp 2020 to do more than it already has.

Why would 11-1 Clemson get in over 12-0 VT anyways?

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jet Sweep

We'd have played Clemson twice so we'd have a loss of that's clemson's record or Clemson will have 2 if that's our record

Na, you're think all to wrong, it will be a 6-2 OSU with the losses being "because of covid" going over a 10-0 teams from another conference.

I was looking to see if anyone had posted the preseason AP poll and thought maybe I somehow missed it which caused me to randomly come back and scroll thru this thread, but I just wanted to reply here to acknowledge just how accurate this comment was

23 if the coaches poll if you are that worried about it 😋

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

I don't think anyone has ever worried about the Coach's Poll, especially the coaches who are supposedly voting in it.

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

Of course the absolute wrong message taken from LSU Miss St. Miss St's roster has not improved that much in 6 months and LSU has 3 guys who started on the national championship team. But yeah the message we should take from yesterday's game is that they're both good.

Also OU's win against Missouri State must've been pretty damn impressive if they're still ranked so high above K State, Arkansas State and Memphis.

I know it's disappointing we aren't ranked, but hey maybe if we beat Duke we'll shoot up to the top 10. Clearly worked for Notre Dame

What has UNCheat done to be ranked so high?

Will

The Force is strong with Tobacco Road

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

Absolutely nothing. This is the Mack Brown effect. Hopefully we bring them back down to earth in a few weeks.

They will fall that much farther when we beat them in a couple of weeks

Hopefully, we'll be back in the rankings soon. I'm still glad we had the #20 ranking, however briefly, to reset the "last time we were ranked" timestamp.

Also, more likely to be ranked again in the coming weeks as we continue to win, in spite of the Big 10 unearned spots.

It's the AP poll. 90% of the voters have watched only 10% of the teams play. Take it for what it is.

and who actually has ACCN?

Danny is always open

Anyone who refuses to use stupid comcast!

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

YoutubeTV

The base sports package is actually amazing

Its perfect for my house. I would never even have cable if it wasn't for sports.

thats about $65 more per month than i want to pay

Danny is always open

I dropped cable and now have xfinity internet with AT&T TV... cut my bill in half and I have access to every channel that I need. But I do live in NOVA......

I knew northern virginia was a growing area but when did it expand to cover Newport News, NewportHokie?

The LewDew, Professional Golf Bum

Moved the fam to Spotsy 5yrs ago.... SpotsyHokie sounds crazy.... lol

Fam we had 6 ranked teams lose to unranked teams yesterday. With us being the 1st team out last week, we should crack the poll somewhere around #20.... Now lets hope we get some of our players back because we won't survive better teams with such a depleted D.

At minimum Memphis, Pitt, and Oklahoma will drop out. I agree we will be in that 20-22 spot.

Miss St. will still be ranked but possibly behind us. Texas is the interesting one. Barely beat TT and losing at home to an unranked team. They had no business at 9 as it was.