Three Top-10 Teams Fell in One Weekend — and Miami Was the Only Team in the Poll That Didn’t Move

Every team in the AP Top 25 moved this week except one. Miami sat at No. 1, watched the rest of the poll burn, and came out the other side holding the top spot tighter than it did seven days ago.

Three top-10 teams lost on Saturday: No. 2 BYU in double overtime at unranked UCF, No. 7 Ole Miss at Texas after leading by 21, and No. 8 Texas Tech at Cincinnati. Stack those on the two weekends before them and the count reaches 10 top-10 losses in three weeks — tying 2007 and 1959 for the most in poll history, according to the Associated Press. Three teams ranked No. 1 or No. 2 have lost to an unranked opponent in that span. This is, officially, the most topsy-turvy season since 2007. And it is only Oct. 25.

The night No. 2 fell

BYU arrived in Orlando 6-0 and ranked second, a week removed from knocking off then-No. 2 Notre Dame. It left with its first loss, a field storming, and a six-spot fall to No. 8.

UCF — 4-3 and unranked — beat the Cougars 39-31 in double overtime at Acrisure Bounce House, the first win over a top-five team in school history. Keyone Jenkins, the backup-turned-starter making his fifth straight start, threw for 293 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth. The closing minutes of regulation alone packed in a BYU goal-line stand at its own 1, a fumble overturned to an incomplete pass on replay, an unsportsmanlike-conduct flag on the Cougars, and BYU blocking Will Stone’s would-be game-winning field goal in the final seconds to force overtime.

The teams traded touchdowns in the first overtime. In the second, a roughing-the-kicker penalty handed UCF a fresh set of downs, Jenkins found tight end Grayson Brousseau for the go-ahead touchdown and Tyren Hornes for the two-point conversion, and BYU’s answer died at the UCF 4 — Bear Bachmeier’s fourth-down pass to Walker Lyons falling incomplete. The fans came over the rails. (Previously covered the game itself: Keyone Jenkins, UCF Stun No. 2 BYU 39-31 in Double Overtime.)

Texas blew it, then un-blew it

Texas did the weekend’s loudest damage and nearly undid all of it in one half. The Longhorns led No. 7 Ole Miss 24-3 at halftime in Austin, surrendered three straight touchdowns as the Rebels tied it 24-24 early in the fourth quarter, and still walked out 34-27 winners.

Arch Manning threw for 212 yards and a touchdown and ran for two more — his first rushing scores of the season, including the 1-yard bootleg behind Raleek Brown’s 47-yard run that put Texas in front for good. Brown finished with 157 rushing yards. Ole Miss recovered an onside kick in the final two minutes with a chance to tie, and Jelani McDonald intercepted Trinidad Chambliss’ last throw into the end zone to end it.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak that had dropped Texas from No. 1 all the way to No. 19. The voters answered with the week’s biggest jump: up eight spots to No. 11. Ole Miss fell five, to No. 12.

Cincinnati finished the top-10 sweep, beating No. 8 Texas Tech 37-24 in Cincinnati. The Red Raiders slid five spots to No. 13. Tennessee took the same five-spot fall, to No. 16.

Meanwhile, at No. 1

Miami’s first game as the No. 1 team since 2002 looked like a team that plans to stay a while: a 52-23 rout of Pitt at home that moved the Hurricanes to 7-0. The voters noticed. Miami collected 59 of the panel’s 70 first-place votes, up from 40 a week ago. Ohio State took 10 and Utah one. And in a poll where every other team changed addresses, Miami was the only team in the entire Top 25 that held its exact spot.

The climbers

Some teams climbed without playing. Idle Ohio State rose to No. 2 and idle Georgia to No. 3, while Notre Dame slipped one spot to No. 5 from its couch. Indiana earned its move the hard way. The defending national champions went into Michigan Stadium and won 13-6 in overtime — their first win at Michigan since 1967 — on a day their offense did not complete a single pass in the second half. Josh Hoover’s 4-yard touchdown run in the extra period, after Michigan tied it on a field goal at the end of regulation, lifted the Hoosiers two spots to No. 4 at 7-1, one week after Ohio State snapped their 22-game winning streak.

Three unbeatens left

Count the perfect records. There are three: Miami (7-0), No. 6 Utah (7-0) and No. 7 UCLA (7-0) — the fewest unbeaten teams remaining at this point in a season since 1977, according to Sportradar. Utah, which also took sole possession of first place in the Big 12 by beating Houston, owns its highest ranking in seven years. UCLA’s is its highest in 11. Behind them, No. 9 Kentucky rides a six-game winning streak into its first top-10 appearance since 2022, and No. 10 Alabama is back in the top 10 after beating Texas A&M and avoiding its first three-game losing streak since 2007. The Big 12 matched its conference record with six ranked teams for the first time since 2012.

In, out — and one family score to settle

Oklahoma State is back in after a one-week absence, at No. 24 behind a 57-24 win over Colorado. Wisconsin is in at No. 25 — its first poll appearance since 2023 — after a 24-7 defensive squeeze of USC that handed the Trojans their fewest yards and points in five seasons under Lincoln Riley and knocked them out of the poll for the first time since Oct. 19, 2025.

Iowa is the other team out, and this one has a forwarding address. The Hawkeyes lost 13-10 at Minnesota, their second loss in three games, and fell out for the first time this season, landing as the first team out with 76 points. In at least one family — son a Minnesota man, Dad a lifelong Iowa fan — that score will be coming up at Thanksgiving. Gently. Repeatedly.

The receipts come due next week

No. 22 Arizona, winners of five straight, travels to No. 13 Texas Tech — a place the Wildcats have not won since 1935. And No. 17 Florida gets No. 3 Georgia in Atlanta, with the Gators chasing a third win over a top-10 opponent and Georgia protecting a five-game winning streak in the series. If the last three weeks are any guide, at least one of those favorites is already in trouble.

By the Numbers

• 10 — losses by top-10 teams in the last three weeks, tying 2007 and 1959 for the most over a three-week span in poll history
• 59 of 70 — Miami’s first-place votes, up from 40 a week ago
• 3 — unbeaten FBS teams left (Miami, Utah, UCLA), the fewest at this point in a season since 1977
• 1 — teams that held their spot in this week’s Top 25 (Miami)
• +8 — Texas’ jump, the week’s biggest, from No. 19 to No. 11
• −6 — BYU’s fall, the week’s biggest, from No. 2 to No. 8
• 1967 — the last time Indiana had won at Michigan before Saturday
• 2002 — the last time Miami had played a game as the No. 1 team before Saturday

The New AP Top 25 (Week 9 — through games of Oct. 24, 2026)

Boise State and Northwestern tied at No. 20 with 422 points each — there is no No. 21 in this poll. Dropped out: Iowa (was No. 15), USC (was No. 16). 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.

Track the poll week to week — every week of the Top 25 with the movement — on the Stats Hub’s AP Top 25 board, updated with the Week 9 poll.