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Entering Week 8 of the college football season, eight AP Top 25 teams fell this past Saturday, causing more shakeup in this week’s poll.

Ohio State continued to roll, unchallenged as the No. 1 team in the country, beating then-ranked No. 17 Illinois, 34-16, on the road. Miami (Fla.) stayed at No. 2 off a bye week.

Yet again, a top 3 team suffered an upset when Oregon lost to Indiana in a top 10 conference matchup. After snapping the Ducks’ 22-game home win streak, the Hoosiers moved into the nation’s top 3. The win was just Indiana’s second-ever over a top-five opponent and its first since 1967. Texas A&M moved up one spot to No. 4 after defeating Florida, 34-17. The Aggies jumped Ole Miss, which dropped to No. 5 after barely sneaking by Washington State at home by a field goal.

Alabama rose past its preseason ranking to No. 6. The Crimson Tide dealt Missouri its first loss, beating the Tigers 27-24. Texas Tech remained unbeaten, dismantling Kansas by 25 points, and enters Week 8 seventh in the country.

Oregon didn’t fall far and sits now at No. 8. Georgia scored 20 unanswered points in Auburn Saturday to rise to No. 9, and LSU re-entered the top 10 with a 20-10 win over South Carolina.

RANK
SCHOOL
POINTS
RECORD
PREVIOUS

1
Ohio State (50)
1631
6-0
1

2
Miami (FL) (13)
1582
5-0
2

3
Indiana (3)
1531
6-0
7

4
Texas A&M
1433
6-0
5

5
Ole Miss
1331
6-0
4

6
Alabama
1315
5-1
8

7
Texas Tech
1266
6-0
9

8
Oregon
1175
5-1
3

9
Georgia
1148
5-1
10

10
LSU
1012
5-1
11

11
Tennessee
939
5-1
12

12
Georgia Tech
904
6-0
13

13
Notre Dame
793
4-2
16

14
Oklahoma
786
5-1
6

15
BYU
655
6-0
18

16
Missouri
649
5-1
14

17
Vanderbilt
547
5-1
20

18
Virginia
521
5-1
19

19
South Florida
398
5-1
24

20
Southern California
361
5-1
NR

21
Texas
319
4-2
NR

22
Memphis
285
6-0
23

23
Utah
261
5-1
NR

24
Cincinnati
184
5-1
NR

25
Nebraska
149
5-1
NR

Others receiving votes: Illinois 113, Michigan 73, Washington 36, UNLV 30, Navy 11, Mississippi State 8, Tulane 2, San Diego State 2.

Teams receiving first-place votes

Rank
Team
Record
First-Place Votes

1
Ohio State
6–0
50

2
Miami (FL)
5–0
13

3
Indiana
6–0
3

 

Movers of the week

Biggest jumps: The Hoosiers made the biggest move in the top 10 and achieved its highest-ever AP poll ranking. South Florida jumped five spots into the top 20 after beating North Texas, 63-36.
Biggest drops: Oklahoma lost to then-unranked Texas in the Red River Rivalry game, falling eight spots to No. 14. A pair of Big Ten teams, Michigan and Illinois, suffered their second loss of the season and dropped out of the Top 25. Similarly, a couple of Big 12 teams, Arizona State and Iowa State, lost their second game in Week 7, and both squads entered this week unranked. Finally, Florida State are unranked after suffering a third consecutive loss, this time at the hands of Pittsburgh.
New entrants: Texas is back… in the Top 25 that is, at No. 21, with a bounce-back win over Oklahoma. The Longhorns beat the Sooners three of the last four years. With two Big Ten and two Big 12 teams falling out, two new representatives from each conference took their place. USC re-entered the Top 25 at No. 20. Utah and Cincinnati came in at No. 23 and 24, respectively, and Nebraska rounded out the new AP poll at No. 25.

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