Vanderbilt is among the top 10 teams in the country for the first time since 1947 in an Associated Press college football poll that got a nearly complete makeover Sunday after a weekend when nine ranked teams lost.
Ohio State was the only team to hold its spot, with the reigning national champion remaining No. 1 for an eighth straight week after shutting out Wisconsin 34-0 on the road in a Big Ten matchup.
Beyond the Buckeyes, significant revision was required with four top-10 teams losing in the same week for a third time this season. Nine losing teams from the AP Top 25 were the most since the fifth week of the 2022 season, when 10 went down, according to Sportradar. This time, four of the losses were to unranked opponents.
The Buckeyes received 60 first-place votes, 10 more than a week ago. No. 2 Indiana pulled away from Michigan State, improved its program-record ranking by one spot and got the other six first-place votes.
After the 1-2 showing for the Big Ten, the rest of the top five was filled out by Southeastern Conference schools.
Texas A&M’s one-rung promotion to No. 3 gives the Aggies their highest ranking since 1995, No. 4 Alabama has its highest ranking of the season, and No. 5 Georgia returned to the top five after a three-week absence that started with its home loss to Alabama when the Crimson Tide were No. 17 in the poll.
Reigning Big Ten champion Oregon, Atlantic Coast Conference member Georgia Tech, SEC program Ole Miss, Miami of the ACC and Vanderbilt of the SEC round out the top 10.
A week after Oregon’s home loss to Indiana, the Ducks bounced back with a lopsided road win over Rutgers.
Georgia Tech, which won at Duke, hadn’t been in the top 10 since 2014 or ranked as high since 2009. Ole Miss lost at Georgia, causing the Rebels to slip three spots, and Miami fell seven after falling at home to unranked Louisville.
Vanderbilt rallied from its loss at Alabama two weeks ago with a 31-24 win over LSU on Saturday, when the Tigers were ranked 10h. The Commodores earned a seven-spot promotion for their first win over LSU since 1990. At 6-1, they’re is off to the program’s best start since 1950 with two wins over ranked opponents.
Texas Tech’s first loss came on the road to reigning Big 12 champion Arizona State and dropped the Red Raiders seven spots to No. 14.
Tennessee dropped six spots to No. 17 after losing at Alabama, where the Volunteers haven’t won since 2003.
LSU took the biggest fall, plunging 10 spots to No. 20 for its lowest ranking of the season.
IN & OUT
No. 19 Louisville makes its season debut in the poll. The Cardinals, whose only loss was by three points to Virginia on Oct. 4, were 0-18 all-time against top-10 teams in true road games before knocking off the Hurricanes on Friday night.
No. 23 Illinois returned despite being idle. The Fighting Illini had dropped out for the first time this season after a home loss to Ohio State in conference play.
No. 24 Arizona State, which fell out of the poll after a 32-point loss at Utah, returned after its first win over a top-10 opponent since 2019.
No. 25 Michigan’s 17-point home win over Washington in Big Ten play returned the Wolverines to the rankings after a one-week absence.
Dropping out were Southern California (previously No. 20), Memphis (22), Utah (23) and Nebraska (25).
POLL POINTS
Ohio State’s 10 straight appearances in the top five is the longest active streak.
Georgia’s 140th consecutive week in the poll is the second-longest active streak to Alabama’s 287.
Vanderbilt’s top-10 ranking is its fifth in program history. The others were in 1937 (1), 1941 (1) and 1947 (2).
No. 16 Virginia’s ranking is the highest for the ACC’s Cavaliers since 2007.
CONFERENCE CALL
SEC: 10 (Nos. 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22).
Big Ten: Five (Nos. 1, 2, 6, 23, 25).
Big 12: Four (Nos. 11, 14, 21, 24).
ACC: Four (Nos. 7, 9, 16, 19).
American: One (No. 18).
Independent: One (No. 12).
RANKED VS. RANKED
No. 3 Texas A&M (7-0) at No. 20 LSU (5-2): The home team has won the past eight meetings in this series. LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier threw three second-half interceptions and Marcel Reed came off the bench to run for three touchdowns in the Aggies’ 38-23 win last year.
No. 8 Ole Miss (6-1) at No. 13 Oklahoma (6-1): This will be just their third all-time meeting. The Rebels recorded nine sacks in 26-14 win last year.
No. 15 Missouri (6-1) at No. 10 Vanderbilt (6-1): Commodores kicker Brock Taylor has made 17 consecutive field-goal attempts since missing 31-yarder that gave the Tigers a 30-27 double-overtime win last year.
AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE
Saturday, Oct. 25
No. 2 Indiana (7-0) vs. UCLA (3-4), noon
No. 3 Texas A&M (7-0) at No. 20 LSU (5-2), 7:30 p.m.
No. 4 Alabama (6-1) at South Carolina (3-4), 3:30 p.m.
No. 6 Oregon (6-1) vs. Wisconsin (2-5), 7 p.m.
No. 7 Georgia Tech (7-0) vs. Syracuse (3-4), noon
No. 8 Ole Miss (6-1) at No. 13 Oklahoma (6-1), noon
No. 9 Miami (5-1) vs. Stanford (3-4), 7 p.m.
No. 10 Vanderbilt (6-1) vs. No. 15 Missouri (6-1), 3:30 p.m.
No. 11 BYU (7-0) at Iowa St. (5-2), 3:30 p.m.
No. 14 Texas Tech (6-1) vs. Oklahoma State (1-6), 4 p.m.
No. 16 Virginia (6-1) at North Carolina (2-4), noon
No. 17 Tennessee (5-2) at Kentucky (2-4), 7:45 p.m.
No. 18 South Florida (6-1) at Memphis (6-1), noon
No. 19 Louisville (5-1) vs. Boston College (1-6), 7:30 p.m.
No. 21 Cincinnati (6-1) vs. Baylor (4-3), 4 p.m.
No. 22 Texas (5-2) at Mississippi State (4-3), 4:15 p.m.
No. 23 Illinois (5-2) at Washington (5-2), 3:30 p.m.
No. 24 Arizona State (5-2) vs. Houston (6-1), 8 p.m.
No. 25 Michigan (5-2) at Michigan State (3-4), 7:30 p.m.