Top-10 Tigers: Missouri football moves up in both polls

It took just one week for the team in Columbia, Missouri, to move into the top 10.

Missouri football came in as the No. 10-ranked team in the US LBM Coaches Poll released Tuesday, moving up one spot and leapfrogging Florida State to move into the nation’s top 10 teams.

The Tigers ended last season — after going 11-2 and beating Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl — as the eighth-ranked team in the country, but the preseason poll pushed coach Eli Drinkwitz’s team just outside the top 10.

After beating Murray State 51-0 on Thursday, and after FSU's Week 0 loss to unranked Georgia Tech and a Monday night loss to Boston College — the Tigers' Week 3 opponent — Mizzou is moving up in the coaches poll. As the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams for the first time this year, Missouri, provided it keeps winning, is currently firmly in the conversation for a berth.

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Georgia, after hammering Clemson on Saturday, remained in the top spot in the coaches poll. Texas (No. 3), Alabama (4) and Ole Miss (5) remain as the only other SEC teams ranked ahead of Mizzou in the poll after opening-week wins.

Tennessee (12), Oklahoma (13) and LSU (19), which lost to USC on Sunday in former MU defensive coordinator Blake Baker's Baton Rouge debut calling plays, kept their spots in the top 25 to round out the SEC contingency. Texas A&M, which lost to Notre Dame on Saturday evening, dropped out of the top 25.

Florida State, between the preseason poll and the first updated rankings, has moved from No. 10 to unranked.

On Saturday, Missouri athletics announced that the team’s Week 3 game against Boston College had sold out, which makes it the fourth game on Faurot Field to do so this season. Memorial Stadium was a sellout for the Murray State opener, and tickets for future games against Auburn and Oklahoma also have already hit the secondary market.

The now-top-10 Tigers take on Buffalo on Saturday in Columbia. Michigan, which faces Texas this weekend, is the next team ahead of Mizzou in the poll at No. 9.

Missouri football is No. 9 in AP Top 25

The national media bumped the Tigers up an extra spot.

Missouri was No. 9 in the AP Top 25, which also was released Tuesday. The Tigers also jumped FSU in that poll, but the voters also gave Mizzou the edge over national-champion Michigan in the first poll of the regular season.

The Wolverines beat Fresno State 30-10 in the latest poll, which wasn't enough for the voters to keep them at No. 9, instead supplanting them with another Block M-donning team.

Like the coaches poll, the AP poll has Georgia at No. 1 and Texas (3), Alabama (4) and Ole Miss (6) as the SEC teams ranked ahead of Mizzou. Tennessee (14), Oklahoma (15) and LSU (18) also made the list from the conference. Texas A&M was the first team out.

Mizzou has 968 voting points after Week 1, with a 178-point gap to eighth-ranked Penn State.

This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Top-10 Tigers: Missouri football moves up in both polls