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USC received 56 first-place votes and extended its record stay at No. 1 to 30 straight poll. Texas received the remaining nine first-place votes.
"I think Miami's clearly playing the best of the three," said Neill Ostrout, of the Connecticut Post. "I've had them as top one-loss team for several weeks."
The USA Today coaches' poll had the same top five as the AP Top 25. In the Harris Interactive poll, the top 12 teams occupied the same spots they did in the AP poll.
Notre Dame was No. 6 and Virginia Tech was seventh. The Crimson Tide dropped four spots to No. 8, and Ohio State and Oregon completed the top 10.
Auburn moved up four spots to No. 11 with a 31-30 victory over Georgia. UCLA was 12th and West Virginia was No. 13. Georgia dropped five spots to No. 14.
No. 15 TCU, the Mountain West Conference champion, finished its season 10-1 with a 51-3 victory over UNLV. Fresno State, leading the Western Athletic Conference, was No. 16.
No. 21 Texas Tech fell eight spots after being upset 24-17 by Oklahoma State. No. 22 Florida State has its lowest ranking of the season after losing its second straight game, to Clemson.
South Carolina had been ranked for one week each of the past two seasons under coach Lou Holtz, who retired after last season. The Gamecocks have their highest ranking since 2001, when they ended the season No. 13 under Holtz.
For UTEP of Conference USA, its the first time this season the Miners have been ranked. Last season, coach Mike Price got UTEP in the rankings for the first time in school history.
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