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Michigan football set at No. 18 in AP Poll, USC ranked 11th

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome•09/15/24•

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Michigan running back Kalel Mullings. © Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images
Michigan running back Kalel Mullings. © Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images

The Michigan Wolverines are ranked No. 18 in the country in this week’s AP Poll, setting up a top-20 Big Ten showdown with USC next weekend in Ann Arbor. The Trojans come into the game as the 11th-ranked team in the country before their first-ever trip to the Big House.

Michigan is one of 6 teams in the top 25 this week, joining Ohio State (3), Oregon (9), Penn State (10), USC (11) and Nebraska (22). This week’s top five is made up of Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Alabama and Ole Miss.

Here is this week’s full AP Poll heading into the fourth full slate of games of the 2024 season.

  1. Texas (35 first-place votes)
  2. Georgia (23)
  3. Ohio State (5)
  4. Alabama
  5. Ole Miss
  6. Tennessee
  7. Missouri
  8. Miami (FL)
  9. Oregon
  10. Penn State
  11. USC
  12. Utah
  13. Kansas State
  14. Oklahoma State
  15. Oklahoma
  16. LSU
  17. Notre Dame
  18. Michigan
  19. Louisville
  20. Iowa State
  21. Clemson
  22. Nebraska
  23. Northern Illinois
  24. Illinois
  25. Texas A&M

Michigan HC Sherrone Moore weighs in on win over Arkansas State

Michigan was focused on getting its run game right in the third week of the season, and it was able to accomplish that. Head coach Sherrone Moore was pleased with the effort, other than turnovers and penalties.

“I think the biggest thing we talked about and stressed is running the football,” Moore said. “We had 44 attempts for 301 yards, so I’d say that’s pretty successful. 6.8 yards per carry. That was an emphasis we put on the team, on the players, running backs, O-line, so that was good. We just knew we gotta stay balance and do the things we need to in order to make sure we were balanced in all phases. Gotta take care of the football, number one, and be able to run the football like we have been. That made me happy. Not even just the run game but everything perspective, we’ve got to eliminate the penalties. Talk about the penalties, saw the penalties. You could say they were this or they were that, you can’t have them. For us, got to clean them up and be more disciplined. I gotta do a better job with the team making sure we’re disciplined from this day forward and continue to do that.”

Saturday’s game between USC and Michigan kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS. The Trojans are listed as a 6.5-point favorite with the over/under set at 47.5 points heading into the game.

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