{"id":367557,"date":"2025-11-09T19:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:48:18","slug":"ap-top-25-live-updates-19-teams-took-new-spots-in-college-football-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367557\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 live updates: 19 teams took new spots in college football rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month before the playoff matchups are set, 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 college football poll<\/a> shuffled in a big way: 19 teams are in new spots, including Texas at No. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The top five \u2014 <b>No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Indiana, No. 3 Texas A&amp;M, No. 4 Alabama<\/b> and <b>No. 5 Georgia<\/b> \u2014 were unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Incremental moves follow: <b>No. 6 Ole Miss <\/b>swapped spots with <b>No. 7 Oregon <\/b>after the Ducks\u2019 narrow win at Iowa. <b>No. 8 Texas Tech <\/b>and <b>No. 9 Notre Dame<\/b> both moved up one spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns, ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll, jumped three spots to round out the top 10. They\u2019ll face the Bulldogs in an SEC showdown this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><b>No. 11 Oklahoma<\/b> was the only other team that stayed put.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-25-college-football-2c318717a75606860c7d0dae58150db6\" 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-975aa5c0-bbf4-11f0-b0f3-33cf0c788c20\">\n<li><b>Who moved in? <\/b>No. 23 Pittsburgh is in the AP poll for the first time since last November. No. 24 James Madison\u2019s last AP Top 25 appearance was in 2023. No. 25 South Florida is back after a two-week absence. Missouri, Memphis and Washington dropped out.<\/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>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":"A month before the playoff matchups are set, the AP Top 25 college football poll shuffled in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367558,"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-367557","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\/115521475641228549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367557","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=367557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}