Auburn’s 45-10 loss to top-ranked LSU on Saturday dropped it out of both the Associated Press and USA Today polls, but maintained a spot in the BCS standings.

The Tigers are ranked No. 23 in the BCS, falling three spots from the season’s initial rankings last week.

Auburn is ranked No. 15 in the computer component of the poll, but is ranked 30th in the Harris Interactive poll and 38th in the USA Today coaches’ poll, the other two components.

The Tigers are one of six SEC teams in the poll, along with No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Alabama, No. 10 Arkansas, No. 13 South Carolina and No. 22 Georgia.

This week marks the first time Auburn’s been out of both the AP and USA Today polls since Sept. 25, the week before it beat the Gamecocks on the road to vault back into the polls.

Injury update
Tigers head coach Gene Chizik toed the same line with junior wideout Emory Blake as he did to kick off last week.

Still not fully back. And he doesn’t know if Blake will be by Saturday.

“He’s definitely not as far along as I would like him to be or he would be playing,” Chizik said. “I hope he’s much better and he can contribute (Saturday). Right now I don’t know the answer to that.”

Blake injured his ankle in the third quarter against South Carolina on Oct. 1, sat out the next week and played a snap or two against Florida on Oct. 15 before dressing out — but not seeing any action — against LSU on Saturday.

Chizik also said walk-on safety Trent Fisher is “probably out for the year” after sustaining an injury to his right foot.

Fisher, a redshirt freshman who played exclusively on special teams this year, was on crutches with a boot on his right foot on the sideline Saturday.

Speed Reed
Redshirt freshman Trovon Reed got involved Saturday in his first game action in more than a month, catching two passes for 26 yards.

Of course, 25 of those yards came on a swing pass in which Reed outran his man to the sideline and scampered downfield, then drew a 15-yard late hit penalty.

Chizik wants to see the ball in Reed’s hands more often.

“We’ve got to get him more involved in the game plan this week, no question about it,” Chizik said. “He got his hands on a couple of footballs there and did some things with the ball after the catch, which was good to see.”

Reed, who missed three games after injuring his shoulder on a punt return against Florida Atlantic, has a catch in all five games in which he’s played this year, hauling in 15 balls for 117 yards on the season.

Line issues
Chizik, a day after watching Auburn give up its most sacks in a game since 2006, was still displeased with his offensive line’s play.

But he said the offense’s stagnation wasn’t entirely the line’s fault.

“That’s usually the case when you go back and look at it,” Chizik said. “Some of it’s the running backs, some of it’s the quarterback holding the ball too long, some of it’s the defensive line getting pressure in the quarterback’s face too fast, not giving him a pocket to throw in, some of it’s blitzes.”

Chizik said he wasn’t entertaining any thoughts of shuffling the lineup.

“We are where we are and we’ve got — body-wise — what we’ve got,” Chizik said. “We just need to improve.”