11 AP Poll Voters Look Past OSU as Ryan Day & Co. Gain 5 New Threats After week 3 AP polls, five teams are emerging as a threat to OSU's No. 1 spot chokehold as 11 voters look past them for the first

The Week 3 AP Top 25 is out, and the headline is steady. Ohio State remains No. 1, while Notre Dame plunges 16 spots to No. 24 after an 0-2 start, the program’s first ranked 0-2 since 1988, and both Miami and Georgia inch up a place to Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. The devil, however, is in the details of the ballots, where 11 first-place votes drifted away from the Buckeyes to a pack of pursuers despite Ohio State’s wire-to-wire hold on No. 1 since Week 1.

Those votes are split among Penn State (5), Miami (3), LSU (2), and Oregon (1), showing fresh intrigue at the top while the overall margin still clearly favors the reigning champs in Columbus. In other words, the poll’s top line isn’t shocking, but the subtext says the chase is on. No. 1 Ohio State still commands the room with 55 fir