Ohio State Stays on Top, Joined by Northwestern in Top 25 Polls

The Big Ten's rise is just beginning.

While the SEC hilariously tumbled this weekend, a couple Big Ten schools made moves in the polls. Northwestern followed their upset over Stanford by blanking Eastern Illinois and jumped up to No. 24 in the coaches poll, No. 23 in the AP Poll. Meanwhile, Michigan State's win over Oregon meant they leapt over the Ducks, received a two first-place votes in the AP Poll and moved ahead of Baylor in both polls. We'll see if Art Briles has anything to say about a Big Ten team leapfrogging them again.

Naturally, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State fell out of the Top 25 and Auburn dropped in both polls. There are still six SEC teams who appear but that won't be the talk of the week.

Amway Coaches Poll
Rank	Team	Points	1st Votes
1	OHIO STATE	1574	62
2	ALABAMA	1472	1
3	TCU	1430
4	MICHIGAN STATE	1383
5	BAYLOR	1324
6	FLORIDA STATE	1119
7	USC	1116
8	GEORGIA	1108
9	CLEMSON	948
10	NOTRE DAME	903
11	OLE MISS	851
12	UCLA	850
13	OREGON	847
14	LSU	806
15	AUBURN	784
16	GEORGIA TECH	731
17	OKLAHOMA	664
18	TEXAS A&M	590
19	ARIZONA	423
20	MISSOURI	320
21	UTAH	279
22	BYU	204
23	WISCONSIN	202
24	NORTHWESTERN	95
25	OKLAHOMA STATE	71

AP TOP 25
Rank	Team	Points	1st Votes
1	OHIO STATE	1523	59
2	ALABAMA	1423
3	TCU	1366
4	MICHIGAN STATE	1354	2
5	BAYLOR	1240
6	USC	1146
7	GEORGIA	1031
8	NOTRE DAME	1012
9	FLORIDA STATE	973
10	UCLA	928
11	CLEMSON	926
12	OREGON	833
13	LSU	787
14	GEORGIA TECH	716
15	OLE MISS	713
16	OKLAHOMA	705
17	TEXAS A&M	703
18	AUBURN	519
19	BYU	349
20	ARIZONA	342
21	UTAH	290
22	MISSOURI	264
23	NORTHWESTERN	170
24	WISCONSIN	158
25	OKLAHOMA STATE	48