USC climbs into AP top 4 after Ohio State loss

Michigan moved up to No. 2 successful The Associated Press assemblage shot canvass Sunday, with TCU astatine No. 3 and USC astatine No. 4 down top-ranked Georgia aft 4 top-10 teams mislaid connected the last time of regular-season games.

The Bulldogs (12-0) are No. 1 for the eighth consecutive week and 11th clip this season. Georgia received 58 first-place votes, and Michigan received the different five.

The Wolverines (12-0) reached a season-high No. 2 aft beating Ohio State, which dropped the Buckeyes 3 spots to No. 5.

TCU (12-0) has its highest ranking since reaching No. 2 successful the 2015 season, and USC has its champion ranking this precocious successful the play since finishing the 2016 play astatine No. 3.

Other top-10 teams to autumn were LSU, Clemson and Oregon. LSU's nonaccomplishment to Texas A&M dropped the Tigers 5 spots to No. 11. Clemson's nonaccomplishment to South Carolina sent it falling 3 spots to No. 10. The Ducks' fourth-quarter illness against Oregon State outgo Oregon a spot successful the Pac-12 rubric crippled and 5 spots successful the poll, wherever it fell to No. 15.

Alabama was No. 6, conscionable up of Tennessee, which bushed the Crimson Tide connected a last-second tract extremity astatine location earlier this season.

No. 8 Penn State and No. 9 Washington some person their champion rankings of the season. The Huskies haven't been successful the apical 10 since the 2018 season, erstwhile they peaked astatine No. 6.

POLL POINTS

This was the eighth regular-season week since 2017 wherever 4 top-10 teams lost, including the 2nd this season. Three of those weeks occurred successful 2017.

The past clip 5 oregon much top-10 teams mislaid successful the aforesaid regular-season week was 2016.