{"id":351009,"date":"2025-11-02T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:51:16","slug":"ap-top-25-live-updates-notre-dame-returns-to-no-10-in-college-football-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351009\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 live updates: Notre Dame returns to No. 10 in college football poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> put two Big 12 teams in the top 10 for the first time in two years and <b>No. 10 Notre Dame<\/b> scraped into the top 10 after a two-month absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Fighting Irish have won six straight, and this weekend\u2019s victory over Boston College boosted them two spots in the poll. They had fallen out of the top 10 after a home loss to Texas A&amp;M dropped them to 0-2.<\/p>\n<p>Losses by Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and Miami made room for <b>BYU at No. 8 <\/b>and <b>Texas Tech<\/b> <b>at No. 9.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Texas and <b>No. 11 Oklahoma <\/b>were the biggest climbers in the poll, jumping seven spots. The Sooners beat Tennessee on the road, while the Longhorns knocked off Vanderbilt at home.<\/p>\n<p><b>No. 1 Ohio State<\/b> is on top for the 10th straight week, again followed by<b> Indiana, Texas A&amp;M, Alabama, Georgia, Oregon<\/b> and<b> Ole Miss.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dive into <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-25-poll-b22d5ac7c3197e27d91869abb478d1cf\" 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\" id=\"rte-366839b2-b2aa-11f0-ab66-d5f6da11b974\">\n<li><b>Who\u2019s in? Who\u2019s out? <\/b>No. 24 Washington, which was idle, is in the poll for the first time since it finished the 2023 season at No. 2.<b> <\/b>Houston, whose No. 22 ranking last week was its first Top 25 appearance since 2022, dropped out after losing at home to West Virginia.<\/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\/how-ap-top-25-works-d4a80e192ecea1795711f023eb64b73d\" 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, <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\">preseason speculation<\/a> or regional bias.<\/li>\n<li><b>Did the voters get it wrong?<\/b> Tell us what the rankings should 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 latest AP Top 25 rankings put two Big 12 teams in the top 10 for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351010,"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-351009","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\/115481850088679202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351009","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=351009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}