South Florida pulled off its second consecutive win over a team ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 last week. This time, the Bulls won at Florida 18-16.
So USF climbed up to the No. 1 spot in the HERO Sports Group of Five Top 25 media poll for this week. Members of nationally-focused media outlets as well as at least one team beat reporter from every G5 conference is involved.
Here’s how they collectively voted:
Group of Five College Football Rankings
- USF (16 first-place votes)
- Tulane (three first-place votes)
- Memphis
- Navy
- UNLV
- JMU
- Toledo
- Ohio
- Texas State
- Boise State
- Fresno State
- UConn
- North Texas
- Western Kentucky
- Buffalo
- South Alabama
- Jacksonville State
- Army
- Liberty
- Appalachian State
- East Carolina
- UTSA
- Air Force
- Temple
- Old Dominion
RV: Troy, Hawaii, Louisiana, Central Michigan, Rice, Southern Miss, Colorado State, Arkansas State, Miami (Ohio), Wyoming, Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, Northern Illinois, New Mexico, Utah State, Missouri State.
HERO Sports Group of Five Top 25 Media Poll Voters
Josh Boutwell, Troy Messenger
Michael Calabrese, Action Network
Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun/JMU Sports News
Ron Counts, HERO Sports
The G5 Hive
Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman
Bryson Gordon, The News & Advance
Catie Harper, Daily News-Record
The Herd Bros
Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News
Colton McWilliams, San Marcos Record
Robert Munoz, HERO Sports
Jeff Nations, Bowling Green Daily News
Marc Narducci, HERO Sports
Colton Pool, HERO Sports
Cam Robertson, Athens Messenger
Kyle Rowland, Toledo Blade
Ty Scheiner, Mike Farrell Sports
Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle
