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Michigan football tumbles in AP Poll after loss to Washington

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome10/06/24

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Sherrone Moore
Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore led his team to a rivalry game victory over Minnesota. (Photo by Eric Seals / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The Michigan Wolverines fell to 4-2 on the season after a 27-17 loss at Washington on Saturday night in Seattle. As a result, a fall in this week’s AP Poll occurred with U-M coming in at the No. 24 spot in the country.

The fall is 14 spots from last week.

Saturday was absolute chaos across college football with six teams ranked inside the top-11 losing, all but one to unranked teams. That made for major shakeups across the board.

Texas is back at No. 1 with Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State and Georgia rounding out the top five. Six Big Ten teams are ranked with OSU (2nd), Oregon (3rd), Penn State (4th), Indiana (T-18th), Illinois (23rd) and Michigan. The Wolverines play four of those teams down the stretch this season.

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

  1. Texas (52 first place votes)
  2. Ohio State (9)
  3. Oregon
  4. Penn State
  5. Georgia
  6. Miami (FL)
  7. Alabama
  8. Tennessee
  9. Ole Miss
  10. Clemson
  11. Iowa State
  12. Notre Dame
  13. LSU
  14. BYU
  15. Texas A&M
  16. Utah
  17. Boise State
  18. Kansas State (T-18th)
  19. Indiana (T-18th)
  20. Oklahoma (T-18th)
  21. Missouri
  22. Pittsburgh
  23. Illinois
  24. Michigan
  25. SMU

Michigan HC Sherrone Moore weighs in on loss to Washington

Michigan had a 17-14 lead in the second half before Washington rattled off the final 13 points of the game. In a game of ups and downs, head coach Sherrone more said that’s football.

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“I don’t think there’s one thing,” Moore said. “This game is… it’s football. Momentum swings back and forth. I think that the big plays, the things that happened, helped them. They tied the game up, and then obviously they got 10 points off a short-field turnover. I think our defense did a great job adjusting in the second half, and it was hard for them to drive the ball down the field. It took some time. And, in the second half, in the fourth quarter, those two turnovers were huge. They got 10 points off of them. So, we got to do a better job taking care of the football in all aspects. Jack’s going to beat himself up about that, but we can’t let him do that. We got to uplift him, and as a team, take care of him.”

Michigan is off for a week now in the first of two byes this season. The program returns to game action on Oct. 19 with a road trip to Illinois. Kickoff time and network designation could be announced as early as Monday.

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