{"id":352635,"date":"2025-11-03T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:58:11","slug":"michigan-football-stays-put-in-ap-top-25-following-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352635\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan football stays put in AP top 25 following third-straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michigan Wolverines<\/a><\/strong> are still No. 21 in the Associated Press rankings<\/a><\/strong> after a 21-16 win over Purdue on Saturday night in Ann Arbor. The Maize and Blue have won three-straight games, beating Washington (24-7), Michigan State (31-20) and the Boilermakers.<\/p>\n

Heading into the Nov. 15 clash against Northwestern, Michigan has been ranked for 116 of its last 137 games and 62 of the last 72 poll releases dating back to the start of the 2015 season. All time, Michigan has been ranked in the AP poll 937 times, the second most of any program in college football. <\/p>\n

Six teams in the Big Ten, including the Wolverines, are ranked after the Week 10 slate of games. Ohio State sits at No. 1, while Indiana remains at No. 2. Oregon sits at No. 6 coming off of a bye, USC (No. 20), Michigan (No. 21) and Washington (No. 24) are all near the bottom of the top 25. Iowa is the first team receiving votes, just outside the top 25.<\/p>\n

Michigan\u2019s performance against a 2-7 Purdue squad made for a slog of a night in Ann Arbor, and head coach Sherrone Moore<\/a><\/strong> said the bye week will be incredibly important.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur standard is really high,\u201d Moore said. \u201cSo I know on defense, we want to be better than that, and we will. And I thought the thing I\u2019m proud about on the defense is the amount of guys that played, especially young guys, but they understand that\u2019s the standard, right? So that\u2019s what they\u2019re in there for, and then that\u2019s how they would get to attack offensively. Obviously, ran the ball well, got to be better in the passing game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you look in the red zone, if you don\u2019t have two turnovers, it\u2019s probably a different game. It\u2019s either six or 14, but it wasn\u2019t. So the main thing we had to do was finish. So things we\u2019ve got to clean up there, and then special teams-wise, we gotta challenge guys, push them. In the returning game, we gotta make sure we got guys in the right place and see who\u2019s going to be the most reliable in those spots, cuz that\u2019s what\u2019s going to help us win these games. And at the end of the day, we\u2019re 7-2, and we\u2019re in a position to do everything we wanna accomplish and go win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the full poll released on Sunday afternoon following the Week 10 slate of games. Each week\u2019s AP Poll will be released on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

The true mark will be revealed on Tuesday night with the unveiling of the College Football Playoff committee\u2019s first batch of rankings.<\/p>\n

AP poll: Where Michigan stands heading into Week 11<\/p>\n

1. Ohio State (54 first-place votes)
2. Indiana (11)
3. Texas A&M (3)
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Mississippi
8. BYU
9. Texas Tech
10. Notre Dame
11. Oklahoma
12. Virginia
13. Texas
14. Louisville
15. Vanderbilt
16. Georgia Tech
17. Utah
18. Miami (Florida)
19. Missouri
20. USC
21. Michigan<\/strong>
22. Memphis
23. Tennessee
24. Washington
25. Cincinnati<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for U-M?<\/p>\n

Michigan is on its second bye next weekend before returning to game action on Nov. 15 against Northwestern at Wrigley Field in Chicago. U-M then heads to Maryland on Nov. 22 before closing out the regular season against Ohio State on Nov. 29 in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan Wolverines are still No. 21 in the Associated Press rankings after a 21-16 win over Purdue…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-352635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115485888243676375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}