{"id":316608,"date":"2025-10-19T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:28:16","slug":"ap-top-25-live-updates-every-college-football-ranking-changed-except-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316608\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 live updates: Every college football ranking changed except No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <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<\/a> was <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-25-47ce0f6019322adcebee6674241e0afd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost completely overhauled<\/a> Sunday after a weekend in which nine ranked college football teams lost, including four in the top 10. It\u2019s the poll\u2019s highest turnover since 2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ohio State<\/b> was the only team to hold its spot, remaining at No. 1 for an eighth straight week. <\/p>\n<p><b>No. 2 Indiana<\/b> improved its program-record ranking by one spot. <b>No. 3 Texas A&amp;M<\/b>\u2018s one-rung promotion gives the Aggies their highest ranking since 1995. <b>No. 4 Alabama<\/b> achieved its highest ranking of the season and <b>No. 5 Georgia<\/b> returned to the top five after a three-week absence.<\/p>\n<p>Notable showings continue further down in the poll, with <b>No. 10 Vanderbilt<\/b> becoming a top-10 team in college football for the first time since 1947. And <b>No. 7 Georgia Tech<\/b>, which won at Duke, hadn\u2019t been in the top 10 since 2014 or ranked as high since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>See more about <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-25-47ce0f6019322adcebee6674241e0afd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happened in this week\u2019s Top 25 poll<\/a>, tell us <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\">what the rankings should\u2019ve been<\/a> and follow live updates from The Associated Press below.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s what to know: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" data-pm-slice=\"3 3 []\" id=\"rte-a3323490-aabe-11f0-aa87-8bd8c4c7d02a\">\n<li><b>Who took the biggest hits? <\/b>No. 20 LSU took the biggest fall, plunging 10 spots to its lowest ranking of the season. No. 9 Miami and No. 14 Texas Tech both dropped seven spots after suffering their first losses of the season. The loss by Ole Miss to Georgia caused it to slip three spots to No. 8.<\/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>What would your rankings look like? <\/b>Tell us what the Top 25 should really be by submitting 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":"The AP Top 25 was almost completely overhauled Sunday after a weekend in which nine ranked college football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316609,"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-316608","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\/115402251673119596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316608","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=316608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}