No 1 Miami was the only team to hold its spot in the college football national rankings this week after a wild day saw BYU tumble with a woeful loss to unranked UCF.
In the latest Associated Press rundown of the Top 25, idle Ohio State moved up to No 2, with BYU’s loss seeing them fall six spots down 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.
Georgia moved up a spot to No 3 after its open date, Indiana jumped two rungs to No 4 after winning at Michigan in overtime and Notre Dame slipped a spot to No 5 after being idle. Utah, UCLA, BYU, Kentucky and Alabama rounded out the top 10.
Miami held firm at No 1 in the country with a win over the Pittsburgh Panthers at Hard Rock
UCF sealed a wild double-overtime win over No 2 BYU to send them tumbling down to No 8
Miami routed Pitt 52-23 at home in its first game as the No 1 team since 2002. The Hurricanes received 59 of the 70 first-place votes from the media voting panel, 19 more than a week ago. Ohio State got 10 first-place votes and Utah got one.
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.
The Big 12 matched its record with six ranked teams for the first time since September 23, 2012. The Big 12 hadn’t had more ranked teams than the Big Ten, which has five, since 2023.
