Buckeyes top Week 2 AP poll, Tide plummet

Yahoo Sports AM is our every day e-newsletter that retains you updated on all issues sports activities. Sign up here to get it each weekday morning.

🏈 AP ballot: Buckeyes on top

Ohio State climbed to No. 1 in this week’s AP poll, LSU and Miami moved into the top 5, and FSU jumped into the rankings after upsetting Alabama, which plummeted to its lowest spot in 17 seasons.

Advertisement

Notes:

• The defending nationwide champion Buckeyes are on the top of a regular-season ballot for the primary time since November 2015.

• Texas’ fall to No. 7 was the most important for a preseason No. 1 since Auburn dropped to No. 8 after dropping their 1984 opener.

• LSU has its highest rating after Week 1 because it was No. 3 in 2012, and Miami has its highest rating after Week 1 because it was No. 5 in 2004.

• South Carolina is within the top 10 within the common season for the primary time because it was No. 8 in December 2013.

Musical chairs: Only three groups within the Top 25 are in the identical spot they held within the preseason ballot following a high-stakes Week 1 slate that noticed 4 top-10 groups lose.

🏈 AI officiating is coming to the NFL. Will it assist?

Since the formation of the NFL, the duty of officiating video games has fallen completely to stripe-shirted people. Now, with AI and motion-capture expertise leaping ahead, the NFL is exploring the best way to take away human error from the officiating course of.

From Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Eisenberg:

The push to modernize started with discovering a alternative for the antiquated chain gang. Starting this fall, the NFL will not use two orange posts related by 10 yards of chain to measure if a group acquired a primary down or not.

Advertisement

After officers manually spot the ball, high-definition cameras put in at each stadium will observe its exact location relative to the road to realize, saving time and enhancing accuracy.

Optical monitoring expertise that captures the actions of athletes and the soccer in actual time may enable the NFL to automate extra officiating selections within the close to future.

The league has begun trying into whether or not the Sony Hawk-Eye optical monitoring system can calculate the place the soccer needs to be noticed if a punt sails out of bounds, NFL VP of soccer expertise Rama Ravindranathan instructed Yahoo Sports.

Other attainable makes use of for optical monitoring, based on Ravindranathan, embody figuring out whether or not a participant has thrown a backward move, figuring out unlawful formation or unlawful man downfield penalties or assessing if a QB has left the pocket on potential intentional grounding calls.

Advertisement

Those, in Ravindranathan’s phrases, are “super aspirational” targets. Then there’s the problem that Ravindranathan describes as much more “complicated.”

Fans have lengthy clamored for expertise to exactly decide the place the ball needs to be noticed, and lots of consider the league is “overdue” to make that change.

So if there are six high-resolution Hawk-Eye cameras monitoring the soccer at each NFL stadium and a coin-sized chip in each soccer transmitting knowledge on its location, why hasn’t the league applied a real-time automated ball-spotting system but?

The roadblock, Ravindranathan says, is “the very nature of football.” Tracking the situation of the soccer just isn’t sufficient.

Advertisement

Any system must precisely detect the situation of the soccer on the exact second that the ball service’s knee or forearm touches the bottom or an official blows his whistle to sign ahead progress has been stopped. And it must talk its conclusion to on-field referees virtually immediately.

“The technology isn’t quite there yet,” former NFL VP of officiating Dean Blandino instructed Yahoo Sports. “That’s the next technological iteration that we’ve got to figure out.”

Read the full story.

🎾 In photographs: U.S. Open, Day 10

Carlos Alcaraz cruised previous Jiří Lehečka, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, to reach his third straight major semifinal. He’s now gained 44 of his final 46 matches and has dropped only one service recreation (and no units) all event.

Novak Djokovic defeated Taylor Fritz, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, to succeed in his 53rd Grand Slam semifinal, breaking a tie with Chris Evert for the most all-time. With Fritz eradicated, the 22-year main drought for American males will now formally lengthen to a minimum of 2026.

Jessica Pegula advanced to her second straight U.S. Open semifinal with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Barbora Krejčíková, and she or he has nonetheless not misplaced a set in New York. Next up: top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, who superior after her opponent withdrew due to injury.

Venus Williams waved goodbye after dropping alongside Leylah Fernandez within the doubles quarterfinals. Was this farewell? The 45-year-old legend didn’t completely close the door on another comeback.

📊 By the numbers

⚾️ 46 straight batters

Aroldis Chapman’s ERA is all the way down to 1.00 after going 16 straight appearances — a span of 46 straight batters — with out permitting successful. The Red Sox rewarded their 37-year-old nearer on Sunday with a $13.3 million contract for next season.

Advertisement

🏎️ $5 billion

McLaren was reportedly getting ready to folding in 2020. Five years later, the F1 group’s majority house owners have purchased the 30% stake they didn’t own at a $5 billion valuation, making McLaren one of many world’s most respected sports activities organizations.

🎾 24 years outdated

Iga Świątek, 24, is the youngest lady to succeed in the quarterfinals in any respect 4 Grand Slams in the identical 12 months since Maria Sharapova in 2005. She faces Amanda Anisimova this afternoon for a spot within the U.S. Open semis.

⚾️ 120 mph

Shohei Ohtani hit the a hundredth dwelling run of his Dodgers profession on Tuesday, and it left his bat at 120 mph, making it one of many hardest-hit dwelling runs in recorded MLB historical past.

📺 Watchlist: Wednesday, Sept. 3

🎾 U.S. Open, Day 11 | 11:30am ET, ESPN

The males’s and girls’s quarterfinals conclude at present.

Advertisement

Men: No. 8 Alex de Minaur, looking for his first Grand Slam quarterfinal victory in six tries, takes on No. 25 Félix Auger-Aliassime (11:30am), who reached the semis right here again in 2021; No. 1 Jannik Sinner faces No. 10 Lorenzo Musetti in a battle of Italians (8:10pm).

Women: No. 2 Iga Świątek and No. 8 Amanda Anisimova (1:10pm) play in a rematch of their lopsided Wimbledon remaining (Świątek gained, 6-0, 6-0); No. 11 Karolína Muchová seeks her third straight U.S. Open semifinal berth in opposition to No. 23 Naomi Osaka (7pm), who final reached a serious semifinal in 2021.

More to observe:

• ⚾️ MLB: Yankees at Astros (8:10pm, Prime) … Will Warren (8-6, 4.30 ERA) vs. Jason Alexander (4-1, 4.61 ERA).

• 🏀 EuroBasket: Group Stage (2:15pm, DAZN) … Nikola Jokić leads Serbia in opposition to Turkey of their group stage finale.

Today’s full slate.

🏈 NFL trivia

Question: Which energetic NFL franchise has one of the best regular-season profitable share?

Advertisement

Hint: They’ve gained 2 Super Bowls.

Answer on the backside.

🏈 28 days, 28 new options

To rejoice 28 years of Yahoo Fantasy Football, we launched a new Fantasy feature for 28 straight days in August.

Catch up on all the new features, and draft your team at present! The NFL season kicks off tomorrow.

Trivia reply: Ravens (.574 win share; 268 wins, 199 losses, 1 tie)

We hope you loved this version of Yahoo Sports AM, our every day e-newsletter that retains you updated on all issues sports activities. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox each weekday morning.