Miami moved back to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, Texas Tech has its highest ranking since 2008, and Penn State and Texas fell all the way out of the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after both lost to unranked opponents Saturday, when the Nittany Lions and the Longhorns were still among the top 10.
No. 1 Ohio State was dominant in its Big Ten win over Minnesota, but the reigning national champion’s 40 first-place votes were its fewest since ascending to the top five weeks ago. The Hurricanes, who moved ahead of idle Oregon, went from receiving four first-place votes last week to 21 this week after winning at Florida State in an Atlantic Coast Conference rivalry matchup.
Miami also had been No. 2 two weeks ago after an open date and gave up that spot last week after Oregon’s overtime win at Penn State, a rematch of last year’s Big Ten title game.
Oregon, which received the other five first-place votes, was followed by two SEC teams: idle No. 4 Ole Miss and No. 5 Texas A&M. The Aggies hammered Mississippi State and earned their highest ranking since their 2021 team was No. 5 in early September.
Oklahoma, another SEC program, slipped from No. 5 to No. 6 despite its 44-0 shutout of Kent State of the Mid-American Conference. Big Ten member Indiana, which had an open date, is No. 7, while Alabama got a two-spot promotion to No. 8 for its 16-point win over Vanderbilt in Tuscaloosa as those two SEC programs met with both in the AP poll for the first time since 1937.