Alabama rises three spots to No. 10 in latest AP Top 25 College Football Poll
ACTION 8 LACE UP SPORTS (WAKA) – Alabama is up three places to No. 10 in the latest AP Top 25 College Football Poll after its 31-20 victory over unranked Texas A&M.
The homecoming victory wasn’t necessarily pretty, but it ended Alabama’s two-game losing streak, after the Crimson Tide fell to Georgia and then Tennessee.
Alabama is off this coming weekend, then will go on the road to face No. 15 LSU on November 7.
No. 1 Miami was the only team to hold its spot in this week’s poll. Ohio State, which had a bye week, moved up to No. 2 as the poll went through another major reordering in the wake of BYU’s loss at UCF and subsequent six-spot fall to No. 8.
A week after five of the top seven teams lost, three more top-10 teams went down Saturday to make it 10 in the last three weeks. Three teams ranked either No. 1 or 2 have lost to an unranked opponent over that span in what is shaping up to be the most topsy-turvy season since 2007.
Miami, Utah and UCLA are the only remaining unbeaten Bowl Subdivision teams, the fewest at this point in a season since there were three left in 1977, according to Sportradar.
Georgia moved up a spot to No. 3 after its open date, Indiana jumped two rungs to No. 4 after winning at Michigan in overtime and Notre Dame slipped a spot to No. 5 after being idle. Utah, UCLA, BYU, Kentucky and Alabama rounded out the top 10.
Miami routed Pitt 52-23 at home in its first game as the No. 1 team since 2002. The Hurricanes received 59 of the 70 first-place votes from the media voting panel, 19 more than a week ago. Ohio State got 10 first-place votes and Utah got one.
No. 6 Utah, which took sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference with its win over Houston, has its highest ranking in seven years and No. 7 UCLA has its highest in 11. No. 9 Kentucky has won six in a row and is in the top 10 for the first time since 2022. No. 10 Alabama avoided its first three-game losing streak since 2007 by beating Texas A&M and returned to the top 10.
In and out
In: No. 24 Oklahoma State bounced back from a close loss to Houston with a 57-24 win over Colorado and returned after a one-week absence.
In: No. 25 Wisconsin used a dominant defensive performance to beat Southern California 24-7 for its second ranked win of the season and first poll appearance since 2023.
Out: Iowa’s 13-10 loss at Minnesota was the Hawkeyes’ second in three games and left them unranked for the first time this season.
Out: Southern California, which against Wisconsin had its fewest yards and points inLincoln Riley’s five seasons, hadn’t been out of the poll since Oct. 19, 2025.
AP Top 25 College Football Poll (first-place votes in parentheses, SEC teams in bold):
1 Miami (59)
2 Ohio State (10)
3 Georgia
4 Indiana
5 Notre Dame
6 Utah (1)
7 UCLA
8 BYU
9 Kentucky
10 Alabama
11 Texas
12 Ole Miss
13 Texas Tech
14 Wake Forest
15 LSU
16 Tennessee
17 Florida
18 Houston
19 SMU
20 Boise State
20 Northwestern
22 Arizona
23 Missouri
24 Oklahoma State
25 Wisconsin
Others receiving votes: Iowa 76, New Mexico 41, Cincinnati 11, Oregon State 10, South Carolina 8, Minnesota 7, USC 7, UTSA 1, Virginia Tech 1
Ranked vs. ranked games this weekend:
No. 17 Florida vs. No. 3 Georgia, at Atlanta: Georgia has won five straight and eight of the last nine games in the series. Gators are going for a third win over a top-10 opponent.
No. 22 Arizona at No. 13 Texas Tech: Wildcats take a five-game winning streak and College Football Playoff hopes to Lubbock, where they haven’t won since 1935.
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