The LSU football team is one step closer to a top spot in the Bowl Championship Series standings, which will be revealed Sunday.
The Tigers topped the season’s first Harris Interactive Poll, which is one of three components used to calculate the BCS standings, along with the Coaches’ Poll and computer rankings.
LSU received 71 of the 115 first-place votes. Alabama and Oklahoma were No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, despite the Sooners receiving seven more first-place votes in the Harris Poll, which is compiled by 115 panelists, including media members and former coaches, players and administrators.
Oklahoma stayed atop the Coaches’ Poll, with LSU at No. 2 and Alabama at No. 3.
The first nine teams in the Harris and Associated Press polls were identical to last week’s standings. The AP Poll had Arkansas at No. 10 and Michigan at No. 11, while the Harris Poll flipped the two teams.
Florida and Florida State were both dropped from the AP Top 25 rankings, marking the first time since 1982 that no team from the Sunshine State was represented.
 
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