Michigan State hockey opens the 2025-26 season as the No. 3 team in the country, according to a pair of national polls.

Missouri football moved up one spot and is now the No. 18 team in the country in the updated US LBM Coaches Poll, which was published Sunday after the Week 5 slate of games. The Tigers beat UMass 42-6 in its homecoming matchup Saturday in Columbia to remain undefeated through five games.

Find out how The Advocate's Southern football reporter voted in BOXTOROW's national HBCU football poll after Week 5.

The poll, released Monday, found Trump has an unchanged approval rating of 43% among registered voters. Another 54% of voters said they disapproved of how the president was handling his job and 3% said they did not know.

A new Times/Siena survey shows the president retaining the support of nine out of 10 G.O.P. voters, even as the government races toward a shutdown on Wednesday.

An NPR-Ipsos poll published Saturday found that 49% of respondents oppose the deployment of National Guard troops to a major city in their state for law enforcement efforts, while 38% said they would support the move and 12% said they were unsure.

Americans are concerned about crime, but don't broadly support President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities, according to a new NPR-IPSOS poll.

Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,313 registered voters conducted from Sept. 22 to 27, 2025.

Those in favor of President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to cities are largely in his Republican base and say it reduces crime, feel it makes them personally safer — even if they don't live in cities — and that in principle they'd support deployment to other U.S. cities.

Mississippi State suffered their first loss of the season last week against Tennessee. The Bulldogs look to rebound against Texas A&M.