# Week 3 CFB -- Who stays in the AP Top Ten?

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**Created:** [September 11, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-3-cfb-who-stays-in-the-ap-top-ten/634393 "2012-09-11T13:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-3-cfb-who-stays-in-the-ap-top-ten/634393/1 "2012-09-11T13:40:09Z")

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Public Poll on the way.

Here’s the schedule for the Top Ten AP from

> **[Rivals.com](https://n.rivals.com/)**
>
> The definitive source for all Rivals news.

```auto

Week 3 Scoreboard 
 
 Saturday September 15, 2012  
 
  (1) Alabama (2-0, Road: 0-0) 3:30 pm EDT 
  Arkansas (1-1, Home: 1-0)  
 
  (2) USC (2-0, Road: 0-0) 7:30 pm EDT  
  (21) Stanford (2-0, Home: 2-0)                       
 
  Idaho (0-2, Road: 0-1) 8:00 pm EDT
  (3) LSU (2-0, Home: 2-0)   
 
  Tennessee Tech (2-0, Road: 0-0) 3:00 pm EDT   
  (4) Oregon (2-0, Home: 2-0)       
 
  Wake Forest (2-0, Road: 0-0) 12:00 pm EDT 
  (5) Florida St. (2-0, Home: 2-0)  
         
  (5/6) Oklahoma idle  

  Florida Atlantic (1-1, Road: 0-1) 7:30 pm EDT  
  (7) Georgia (2-0, Home: 1-0) 

  UAB (0-1, Road: 0-0) 7:00 pm EDT 
  (8) South Carolina (2-0, Home: 1-0) 

  James Madison (2-0, Road: 0-0) 4:30 pm EDT   
  (9) West Virginia (1-0, Home: 1-0)   
 
  (20) Notre Dame (2-0, Road: 0-0) 8:00 pm EDT 
  (10) Michigan St. (2-0, Home: 1-0) 

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Which of these will stay in the Top Ten after Saturday’s games?

Poll closes Friday 14.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-3-cfb-who-stays-in-the-ap-top-ten/634393/2 "2012-09-11T14:59:58Z")

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Oklahoma stays in the top 10. for sure.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-3-cfb-who-stays-in-the-ap-top-ten/634393/3 "2012-09-11T15:35:31Z")

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> [@notfrommensa](#):
>
> Oklahoma stays in the top 10. for sure.

It would make headlines if it didn’t stay there, but you never can tell with the AP Poll.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-3-cfb-who-stays-in-the-ap-top-ten/634393/4 "2012-09-16T13:50:41Z")

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Here’s how things stand before the polls are actually posted

```auto

Alabama (1) 1-0 3-0   
LSU (3) 0-0 3-0   
Oregon (4) 0-0 3-0  
Florida State (5) 1-0 3-0  
Georgia (7) 1-0 3-0  
South Carolina (8) 1-0 3-0    
Clemson (11) 0-0 3-0   
Ohio State (12) 0-0 3-0    
Texas (14) 0-0 3-0   
Kansas State (15) 0-0 3-0  
Florida (18) 2-0 3-0  
Louisville (19) 0-0 3-0 
Notre Dame (20) 0-0 3-0 
Stanford (21) 1-0 3-0    
UCLA (22) 0-0 3-0 
Arizona (24) 0-0 3-0 

Oklahoma (5) 0-0 2-0   
West Virginia (9) 0-0 2-0   
TCU (16) 1-0 2-0  

USC (2) 0-1 2-1   
Michigan State (10) 0-0 2-1   
Virginia Tech (13) 1-0 2-1  
Michigan (17) 0-0 2-1  
Tennessee (23) 0-1 2-1  
Brigham Young (25) 0-0 2-1  

```