No. 1 UGA leads steady top 5; Ducks, UCLA slip

No. 1 Georgia led an unchanged apical 5 successful The Associated Press assemblage shot canvass Sunday, portion the remainder of the Top 25 was shuffled aft 8 ranked teams mislaid -- including 2 large upsets successful the Pac-12.

For the 2nd consecutive week, the Bulldogs received each but 1 of the 63 first-place votes successful the AP Top 25. No. 2 Ohio State received the different first-place vote.

No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 TCU and No. 5 Tennessee held their spots aft victories Saturday, with lone the Horned Frogs facing a existent challenge.

Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and Tennessee won by a combined 203-60 against league opponents.

Home losses by Oregon (to Washington) and UCLA (to Arizona) shook up the remainder of the apical 10. No. 6 LSU and No. 7 USC each moved up a spot.

The past clip 2 top-10 Pac-12 teams mislaid astatine location during the aforesaid play was Oct. 2-4, 2014, erstwhile No. 2 Oregon fell 31-24 to Arizona and No. 8 UCLA was defeated 30-28 by Utah.

Alabama climbed 2 spots to No. 8 this week aft it fell to a season-low No. 10 past week. Clemson moved up 3 spots to reenter the apical 10 astatine No. 9, and Utah roseate to No. 10.

POLL POINTS

Georgia is closing successful connected a schoolhouse record.

The Bulldogs are No. 1 for the ninth clip this season, matching their full from past season, erstwhile they won the nationalist rubric for the archetypal clip successful 41 years.

Georgia has been astatine No. 1 a full of 33 times successful schoolhouse history, 1 down Michigan for 12th astir successful the past of the AP poll.

The Bulldogs are astatine Kentucky adjacent week and adjacent the regular play against Georgia Tech. Barring a large upset, they volition spell into the SEC title crippled against LSU with 11 weeks arsenic the country's top-ranked team.

IN

Of the 4 teams that moved into the rankings this week, Coastal Carolina is the lone 1 making its play debut. The 23rd-ranked Chanticleers person present reached the Top 25 successful each of the past 3 seasons.

• No. 22 Cincinnati is backmost in. The Bearcats springiness the American Athletic Conference a season-high 3 ranked teams on with No. 17 Central Florida and No. 21 Tulane.

• No. 24 Oklahoma State returned aft snapping a two-game losing streak by beating Iowa State.

• No. 25 Oregon State is besides back. The Beavers broke a nine-year canvass drought 2 weeks ago, instantly mislaid a adjacent crippled astatine Washington and dropped out, past moved backmost successful Sunday aft beating California.

OUT

Texas' play successful the rankings: unranked for the archetypal 2 polls, moved successful for 2 weeks successful September, retired for 2 weeks, successful for 2 weeks, backmost for a week and present gone again.

• Illinois tumbled retired aft a 2nd consecutive location loss.

• NC State is unranked for the archetypal clip this play aft the Wolfpack were upset astatine location by Boston College.

• Liberty's clip successful the Top 25 lasted 2 weeks. The Flames followed up a triumph astatine Arkansas by losing astatine UConn to autumn out.

CONFERENCE CALL

The Ducks and Bruins getting toppled crushed the Pac-12's hopes of putting a squad successful the College Football Playoff. One consolation prize: The league present has much ranked teams than it has since Sept. 15, 2019.

Pac-12: 6 (Nos. 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 25)
SEC: 5 (Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 14)
ACC: 3 (Nos. 9, 13, 20)
American: 3 (Nos. 17, 21, 22)
Big Ten: 3 (Nos. 2, 3, 11)
Big 12: 3 (Nos. 4, 19, 24)
Sun Belt: 1 (No. 23)
Independent: 1 (No. 18)

RANKED vs. RANKED

The Pac-12's large games mislaid immoderate luster, but they are inactive astatine the apical of the marquee.

No. 7 USC astatine No. 16 UCLA.

No. 10 Utah astatine No. 12 Oregon.