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Georgia State football prepares for South Alabama

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Georgia State receiver Robert DavisPhoto Credit: Jason Getz Georgia State receiver Robert Davis
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Release from Georgia State Athletics:

ATLANTA — After facing the top two teams in the Sun Belt Conference preseason poll the last two weeks, Georgia State now prepares for the league’s third-best team in the preseason rankings as the Panthers travel to South Alabama Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.

Georgia State (1-5, 0-3 Sun Belt) began this rugged Sun Belt stretch with a road game at UL Lafayette, 2013 Sun Belt co-champion and the unanimous preseason favorite to win the league this year, followed by Arkansas State, which shared last year’s title and was picked second in the preseason. Following South Alabama, Georgia State hosts Georgia Southern, which currently sits atop the league standings.

“We have hit the gauntlet right now in our schedule,” Georgia State head coach Trent Miles said Tuesday. “Lafayette, Arkansas State, South Alabama, Georgia Southern. Those right there are…

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Mississippi State overtakes Florida State in coaches poll

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(Via CBS Sports)

By Tom Fornelli / College Football Writer

October 12, 2014 01:13 PM ET

Dak Prescott and the Bulldogs find themselves atop the Coaches Poll
Dak Prescott and the Bulldogs find themselves atop the coaches poll.

Mississippi State is the best college football team in the country.

That’s what the voters of the coaches poll say, anyway. Voters were impressed enough by the Bulldogs’ 38-23 over Auburn on Saturday that they voted them into first place over Florida State, who had a relatively easy time with Syracuse. What’s strange, though, is that Florida State actually received more first-place votes (31-26 than the Bulldogs), and odds are this is due to some voters putting Ole Miss ahead of the Seminoles as well.

It’s hard to blame voters for feeling that way, as Mississippi State now has wins over LSU, Texas A&M and Auburn on its resume, while Ole Miss has beaten Alabama and A&M as well.

Speaking of Texas A&M, the Aggies experience the biggest drop of any team in the coaches poll, falling from No. 14 to No. 21.

Here’s the entire coaches poll. See complete details here.

1. Mississippi State (26 first place votes)

2. Florida State (31)

3. Ole Miss (5)

4. Baylor

5. Notre Dame

6. Michigan State

7. Alabama

8. Auburn

9. Oregon

10. Georgia

11. Oklahoma

12. TCU

13. Ohio State

14. Kansas State

15. Oklahoma State

16. East Carolina

17. Arizona

18. Arizona State

19. Nebraska

20. Stanford

21. Texas A&M

22. Clemson

23. Utah

24. Marshall

25. USC

Dropping out: UCLA, Georgia Tech,

Top 25 College Football Rankings

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After a week of complete upheaval in College Football, we return to normalcy or something like it.  We can’t call it normal in College Football when the State of Mississippi is running the house.  As always, we don’t look at the rankings from the week below, this is based on where the teams are now, meaning, who cares if a team like University of Arizona was ranked 10th and loses.  We’re not ranking them 17th just because.  So here is are Week 8 rankings:

1.  Mississippi State

2.  Florida State

3.  Ole Miss

4.  Baylor

5.  Oregon

6.  Notre Dame

7.  TCU

8.  Auburn

9.   Oklahoma

10.  Alabama

11.  Georgia

12.  Michigan State

13.  Ohio State

14.  Nebraska

15.  Oklahoma State

16.  Kansas State

17.  Stanford

18.  Arizona State

19. Arizona

20. East Carolina

21.  Marshall

22.  USC

23.  Kentucky

24.  Utah

25.  Washington

Just outside: Virginia, Minnesota, LSU, Texas A&M, Iowa, Rutgers, Oregon State,