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Stuck at #7 in the AP, but progress made - ColoradoTree - 09-19-2016

I'll start this off with the usual caveat that early-season rankings are silly and should be treated with buckets of salt.  That said, I still think it's interesting to track where Stanford stands with the various AP voters to see how we're doing.

Overall: Still at #7, though we went from 1137 points in the poll to 1195.  We were 127 points behind #6 Houston's 1264 last week; we're now just 50 behind Houston's 1245.  If Stanford can win on the road against UCLA, I should think we'd jump ahead of Houston on more than a few ballots, given Houston is playing Texas State. 

We mostly held firm, though we went from 6 voters having us at #4 or #5 to 11 voters.  That helped change Stanford's mode from #7 to #6. 

The Omaha World-Herald's Sam McKewon, who had been extremely skeptical of Stanford the first few weeks of the season, is now more or less on board, moving Stanford from #22 to #9 on his ballot (and explaining the rise as a combination of Stanford's win over SC and Kansas State's solid win over FAU), meaning Wilner now ranks Stanford lower than anybody else (at #11, still a two-spot improvement from last week).  The ballot from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer's Bill Landis was also notable, as he jumped us from #13 to #5. 

There's a clear separation between the Top 3 (Alabama, Ohio State, Louisville) and 4 through 7 (Michigan has 1277 points, Clemson 1258, Houston 1245, and Stanford 1195), so a little ballot shuffling could go a long way.  Michigan State isn't that far behind in the #8 spot with 1084 points, moving past Washington's 1040.  It's then a 150-point drop to Texas A&M at #10, though, so the voters seem to see some separation. 

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