AP Top 25 College Football Poll: Alabama stuck at No. 8 despite dominating win over Kentucky

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

Alabama may have dominated Kentucky 49-21, which clinched the SEC West for the Crimson Tide, but it didn’t change Alabama’s No. 8 position in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll.

The entire top eight of this week’s Top 25 remained unchanged, with No. 2 Michigan receiving seven first-place votes and No. 3 Ohio State getting one.

Georgia extended its streak of weeks being top-ranked in the AP Top 25 to 22, giving the Bulldogs the second-longest run of being No. 1 in the 87-year history of the college football poll.

The Bulldogs received 54 first-place votes after they routed Ole Miss in what was a top-10 matchup on Saturday night. Georgia broke a tie with Miami, which made 21 straight appearances at No. 1 from 2001-02.

The longest No. 1 streak belongs to Southern California. The Trojans spent 33 straight polls at No. 1 from 2003-2005.

Florida State was No. 4, followed by No. 5 Washington. The top five in the rankings are all 10-0, marking the first time in the BCS/CFP era that five teams from so-called power conferences have been perfect after 10 games.

Oregon was No. 6, followed by Texas and Alabama.

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New to the top 10 this week were No. 9 Louisville and No. 10 Oregon State, both with season-high rankings.

No. 11 Missouri has its best ranking since finishing No. 5 in 2013.

The teams that fell out of the top 10 this week were the losers of Saturday’s big games.

Penn State slipped three spots to No. 12 after falling at home to Michigan. Ole Miss also dropped three places to No. 13 after losing at Georgia.

Kansas was the only team to drop out of the rankings this week. The Jayhawks were upset at home by Texas Tech.

Replacing them was rival Kansas State at No. 23.

AP TOP 25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL (First-place votes in parentheses, SEC teams in bold):

1. Georgia (54)
2. Michigan (7)
3. Ohio State (1)
4. Florida State
5. Washington
6. Oregon
7. Texas
8. Alabama
9. Louisville
10. Oregon State
11. Missouri
12. Penn State
13. Ole Miss
14. Oklahoma
15. LSU
16. Utah
17. Tulane
18. James Madison
19. Arizona
20. Notre Dame
21. Tennessee
22. North Carolina
23. Kansas State
24. Oklahoma State
25. Liberty

In upcoming games featuring ranked teams playing each other on Saturday:

No. 1 Georgia at No. 21 Tennessee. Was No. 1-vs.-No. 2 last season.

No. 5 Washington at No. 10 Oregon State. Last time the Huskies and Beavers played with both ranked was 2000. Only three ranked matchups in 94 overall meetings.

No. 16 Utah at No. 19 Arizona. Third ranked matchup and second since the Utes moved to the Pac-12 in 2011.

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