Florida State has a bye and jumps from 10 to seven. Texas dropped one to eighth. 

Illinois stays at nine. 

I’m certainly not stumping for Illinois but they should be seventh. FlaSt jumps them on a bye? Illinois covered the spread and shut them out. 

Up to 13 in SP+

moved up 3 spots

Maybe it’s because Bama looked good at therefore FSU’s win over them looks better.

I don’t know.

Duke also lost at Tulane. Had the opposite effect of ODU's win over Va Tech.

Oregan drops 2 spots after beating Purdue. Ouch.  

@hoosiers-rising 

they beat Northwestern 

@hoosiers94 You are right. Watched parts of both of those games. I’m getting old.

I can't believe there are AP Jag Offs not ranking Indiana in their top 25.

@middawg and ranking ND in the top 10

Big win over Illinois = 6-7 spot leap... 12-13 ranking

Close win over Illinois = 3-4 spot leap... 15-16 ranking

Close loss over Illinois = 4-5 spot drop... maybe stay in rankings at 25 ish

Big loss over Illinois = crater... drop far out of rankings

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I can't believe there are AP Jag Offs not ranking Indiana in their top 25.

@openwheel it is just the name. Too many people just cannot believe Indiana can play good football. They will eventually learn.

And SEC fans and some others hate Cig. Spite.

I'm good with that! 

I hope our history under Cig is a ratings curve of being underrated all season but getting closer and closer to our true strength until late in the season when Cig and team kick the door down! And Indiana fans can laugh all the way to the big games.

@walt542 early in the season.  I think its pretty obvious teams are largely being "rewarded" for playing difficult games, thus far.  But even that isn't consistent.  Penn State hasn't played anyone good, and hasn't really looked overly dominant, yet they're holding steady at 2, and receiving first place votes...while Oregon has now hammered 2 P4 opponents, one of them on the road, and is losing ground in the rankings...

With regards to Indiana... it feels like their rankings are low/worse than they should be, and I assume their OOC schedule is playing a role there.  But they are still ranked, ahead of a team like Auburn, who has an impressive road P4 win.  If it were all about quality of wins, no way IU should be ahead of Auburn.  

So... I think its early.  Many voters realize how good IU was last year, that they have a lot of returning guys, they brought in really good players in the portal, and that Cig has a track record of winning most of his games...but they are IU, and they haven't proven it against any P4 teams yet.  I personally think beating ODU is quite a lot more impressive than even most of our own fans think it is...let alone more neutral AP and Coaches doing the voting.  They're obviously a very good non P4 team, and we dominated most aspects of that game.  But they don't have a name, and they don't have a number next to their name on the tickers.  

The game Saturday is obviously huge for a bunch of reasons.  "Proving" last year wasn't a fluke, to many, is one of those reasons.  And doing so will remove a lot of rankings apprehensions, for many voters.