{"id":538960,"date":"2026-01-15T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538960\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:18:14","slug":"top-25-and-1-college-basketball-rankings-once-sputtering-florida-emerging-as-sec-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538960\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 And 1 college basketball rankings: Once-sputtering Florida emerging as SEC favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"kansas-top-25.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/florida-t25-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Sports graphic<\/p>\n<p>Just 48 hours ago, five undefeated teams remained in the sport. That number began shrinking Tuesday night, when <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/IOWAST\/iowa-state-cyclones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa State<\/a> lost at <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/KANSAS\/kansas-jayhawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas<\/a>, and dropped again Wednesday night when <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/VANDY\/vanderbilt-commodores\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanderbilt<\/a> fell at <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TEXAS\/texas-longhorns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So now we&#8217;re down to three.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: Texas 80, Vanderbilt 64.<\/p>\n<p>The Commodores, previously unbeaten, shot just 37% from the field, allowed Texas to shoot 53% and never found a rhythm in their first road game of the season against a team currently ranked in the top 40 at KenPom.com. Consequently, Vanderbilt is now 16-1 entering Saturday&#8217;s matchup with reigning national champion <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FLA\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vandy dropped to No. 10 in Thursday morning&#8217;s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily rankings, while <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/ARIZ\/arizona-wildcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a> remained No. 1 for the fifth consecutive day. Florida is No. 15, making Vanderbilt and Florida the two highest-ranked SEC teams in the Top 25 And 1. They are also the two programs KenPom now projects to finish tied atop the conference standings.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Florida &#8212; one of the teams many labeled disappointing after a 5-4 start &#8212; is now 12-5 and projected to claim a share of the SEC regular-season title.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/players\/29233245\/thomas-haugh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Haugh<\/a>, a reserve forward on last season&#8217;s championship team, has emerged as the Gators&#8217; best player. The 6-foot-9 junior has scored at least 21 points in three of his past four games and is averaging 17.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 33.9 minutes per contest. He ranks fourth in KenPom&#8217;s SEC Player of the Year race, trailing only <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/players\/29555859\/labaron-philon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labaron Philon<\/a> (<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/BAMA\/alabama-crimson-tide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a>), <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/players\/29558577\/tyler-tanner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Tanner<\/a> (Vanderbilt) and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/players\/28955426\/keyshawn-hall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keyshawn Hall<\/a> (<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/AUBURN\/auburn-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> Top 25 And 1 rankings <\/p>\n<p>\n        Biggest Movers\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n                1<\/p>\n<p>                Utah State\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                8<\/p>\n<p>                Vanderbilt\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports graphic Just 48 hours ago, five undefeated teams remained in the sport. That number began shrinking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7998,1982,1398,7,2399,217,37927,60152,60153,18289,950,7368,3730,14262,2434,2879,62790,2398,2463,28216,20705],"class_list":{"0":"post-538960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-arizona-wildcats","10":"tag-auburn-tigers","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-baylor-bears","13":"tag-college-basketball","14":"tag-college-basketball-rankings","15":"tag-college-basketball-top-25","16":"tag-college-basketball-top-25-and-1","17":"tag-colorado-buffaloes","18":"tag-florida-gators","19":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","20":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","21":"tag-kansas-state-wildcats","22":"tag-keyshawn-hall","23":"tag-labaron-philon","24":"tag-mens-college-basketball-rankings","25":"tag-texas-longhorns","26":"tag-thomas-haugh","27":"tag-tyler-tanner","28":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}