No. 1 Miami was the only team to hold its spot in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday and idle Ohio State moved up to No. 2 as the poll went through another major reordering in the wake of BYU’s loss at UCF and subsequent six-spot fall to No. 8.
A week after five of the top seven teams lost, three more top-10 teams went down Saturday to make it 10 in the last three weeks. Three teams ranked either No. 1 or 2 have lost to an unranked opponent over that span in what is shaping up to be the most topsy-turvy season since 2007.
Miami, Utah and UCLA are the only remaining unbeaten Bowl Subdivision teams, the fewest at this point in a season since there were three left in 1977, according to Sportradar.
No. 6 Utah, which took sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference with its win over Houston, has its highest ranking in seven years and No. 7 UCLA has its highest in 11. No. 9 Kentucky has won six in a row and is in the top 10 for the first time since 2022. No. 10 Alabama avoided its first three-game losing streak since 2007 by beating Texas A&M and returned to the top 10.
RANK TEAM RECORD PREVIOUS RANK
1 Miami 7-0 1
2 Ohio State 6-1 3
3 Georgia 6-1 5
4 Indiana 7-1 6
5 Notre Dame 6-1 4
6 Utah 7-0 10
7 UCLA 7-0 9
8 BYU 6-1 2
9 Kentucky 7-1 12
10 Alabama 6-2 13
11 Texas 5-2 19
12 Ole Miss 5-2 7
13 Texas Tech 6-1 8
14 Wake Forest 6-1 17
15 LSU 6-2 18
16 Tennessee 6-2 11
17 Florida 5-2 20
18 Houston 6-2 14
19 SMU 6-1 23
20 Boise State 6-1 21
20 Northwestern 6-1 24
22 Arizona 6-1 25
23 Missouri 5-2 22
24 Oklahoma State 5-2 NR
25 Wisconsin 5-2 NR
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