North Carolina is only the sixth team to go from preseason No. 1 to unranked since at least the 1961-62 season, most recently with Michigan State during the 2019-20 season.
Southern California moved into the top five of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday for the first time in five years. Georgia received 62 of the 63 first-place votes in Top 25.
The Pac-12 is better than it has been in recent years, but is also still eating its own and undercutting its best teams' chances to earn a College Football Playoff berth.
No. 1 Georgia leads an unchanged top five in The Associated Press college football poll. The rest of the Top 25 has been shuffled around after eight ranked teams lost.
Georgia has tightened its hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. TCU climbing up to No. 4 and Alabama dropping all the way to No. 10.
It’s been nearly a decade since Oregon State found itself ranked in the AP Top 25. Oregon State travels to Washington for an elimination game in the race for one of the top two spots in the Pac-12.
LSU re-entered The AP College Football poll at No. 18 and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the first time in four seasons. The first six teams in the AP Top 25 held their spots.
Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The AP college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years. Two points separate the Crimson Tide from the Bulldogs.