{"id":297654,"date":"2025-10-12T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:01:15","slug":"ap-top-25-live-updates-college-football-rankings-set-to-shake-up-after-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297654\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 live updates: College football rankings set to shake up after Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggles by several top 10 teams in Week 7 of college football <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-25-ncaa-football-2d4adb68f52251993cbc7041e4679395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should send shockwaves<\/a> through the latest <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP Top 25 rankings<\/a>, dropping at 2 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 Oregon suffered its first loss of the season, delivered by No. 7 Indiana in a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/indiana-oregon-score-9e7866e608fa0dd7717b41da37fdc360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30-20 road win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 Ole Miss pulled out a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ole-miss-washington-state-football-score-1398e7488880721664ba0032c7eb19f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24-21 victory<\/a> over Washington State in a game that shouldn\u2019t have been close.<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 Oklahoma was outperformed by the Texas Longhorns, whose stint as an unranked team will likely be short-lived after a convincing <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oklahoma-texas-red-river-score-576c169ddb5f410a08613be7c79dc50a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23-6 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So how will the top of the poll shake out?<\/p>\n<p>Follow live updates from The Associated Press below for poll projections, game recaps, analysis and voter answers to fan questions, all in one place.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s what to know: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-34e01902-a215-11f0-b436-5be338326222\">\n<li><b>Who could climb? <\/b>No. 5 Texas A&amp;M, No. 8 Alabama and No. 9 Texas Tech each racked up a win Saturday and could benefit from losses by Oklahoma and Oregon.<\/li>\n<li><b>Who decides the rankings? <\/b>The Top 25 voters are more than 60 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top25-ballot-process-voters-7ca67ed5b99003c484f96ac737bb780d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalists covering college football<\/a> for AP members and other news organizations. They\u2019re urged to base their votes on head-to-head results, not reputation, preseason speculation or regional bias.<\/li>\n<li><b>Think you know better?<\/b> Tell us what you think the rankings should be by filling out a ballot in the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-fan-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP Top 25 fan poll<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Here\u2019s the poll\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758479777_486_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25b6 Show your appreciation for one of college football\u2019s longest-running traditions.<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Donate to AP.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Struggles by several top 10 teams in Week 7 of college football should send shockwaves through the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[114197,82452,1428,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-297654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-ap-top-25-college-football-fan-poll","9":"tag-ap-top-25-college-football-poll","10":"tag-college-football","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362037344594283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}