Ole Miss Rises to No. 4 as SEC Dominates Top 25
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Ole Miss is now the No. 4 college football team in the country.
This is a new ranking after Week 3 of the season.
The ranking is called the AP Top 25 poll.
Ten teams from the SEC are in the Top 25 list.
The SEC is a big group of college teams. It is called a conference.
Kentucky is one of the SEC teams in the Top 25.
People say the SEC is very strong this year.
Many teams from one conference in the Top 25 shows this.
Experts also made a new list of 138 teams.
This list looks at all college football teams, not just the top ones.
Ole Miss and Kentucky were surprises in this list.
Fans are excited to see how these teams play next.
Vocabulary15 words
- ranking
- a list that shows who is best or worst
- poll
- a list made by asking experts what they think
- SEC
- a big group of college sports teams
- conference
- a group of teams that play against each other
- Week 3
- the third week of games in the season
- AP Top 25
- a famous list of the best 25 college football teams
- climb
- to move up in a list
- surprise
- something you did not expect
- represented
- shown or included in a list
- college football
- American football played by university teams
- season
- the months when a sport is played
- deep
- having many strong teams
- join
- to become part of a group
- list
- names written one after another
- team
- a group of players who play together
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1. No. 4 2. 10 3. True
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Ole Miss is now the No. 4 college football team in the _____.
This is a new _____ after Week 3 of the season.
The ranking is called the AP Top 25 _____.
Ten teams from the _____ are in the Top 25 list.
The SEC is a big group of college teams. It is called a _____.
Kentucky is one of the SEC teams in the _____ 25.
People say the SEC is very _____ this year.
Many teams from one conference in the Top 25 shows this.
Experts also made a new list of 138 _____.
Ole Miss and Kentucky were _____ in this list.
Fans are excited to see how these teams _____ next.
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