{"id":211680,"date":"2020-11-02T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211680"},"modified":"2020-11-02T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:03:41","slug":"ap-top-25-football-poll-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211680","title":{"rendered":"Associate Press Top 25 Football Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Clemson remains No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll, but not by much. Trevor Lawrence\u2019s absence because of COVID-19 and the Tigers\u2019 narrow victory over Boston College created a divide among the 62 sports writers and broadcasters on the voting panel.<\/p>\n<p>Clemson is just two points ahead of No. 2 Alabama after receiving 33 first-place votes, 19 fewer than last week. The Crimson Tide closed the gap with Saturday\u2019s 41-0 rout of Mississippi State, the first shutout loss for head coach Mike Leach.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the top five remained the same, with Ohio State at No. 3, followed by Notre Dame and Georgia. Sixth-ranked Cincinnati is followed by Texas A&amp;M, Florida, BYU and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty cracked the poll for the first time ever at No. 25, while Penn State dropped out for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Clemson remains No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll, but not by much. Trevor Lawrence\u2019s absence because of COVID-19 and the Tigers\u2019 narrow victory over Boston College created a divide among the 62 sports writers and broadcasters on the voting panel. Clemson is just two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211691,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211680\/revisions\/211691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}