Well, I guess last week’s three-way debate over #1 is over for now. Last week, the ESPN computers, the Sagarin computer and the AP voters came up with three different number ones: Texas, Alabama, Georgia.
But this week:
Texas lost to Oklahoma on the game’s final play, despite holding the Sooners to only 238 yards of offense. Arch Manning threw two critical interceptions, and the Longhorns also allowed a blocked punt.
The other two played each other and Georgia won.
So the debate between those three is settled, and Georgia emerged as the kingpin, but that raised a new three-way debate.
- ESPN’s system now says Ohio State is #1, despite their loss.
- The AP voters prefer Georgia.
- Sagarin’s system points to Notre Dame!
Through games of October 10, 2026. Click any ranking heading to sort from best (lowest number) to worst; click again to reverse. Empty rankings always go to the bottom.
AP rankings worse than 25th are unofficial – but are based on the same logic that creates the top 25.
| Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Georgia | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Ohio State | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Alabama | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| Miami-Florida | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Indiana | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Texas | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Oregon | 8 | 12 | 27 |
| LSU | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| Texas Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Missouri | 11 | 13 | 13 |
| UCLA | 12 | 18 | 12 |
| Utah | 13 | 7 | 11 |
| Mississippi | 14 | 16 | 9 |
| Tennessee | 15 | 15 | 14 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | 30 | 30 |
| BYU | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Iowa | 18 | 24 | 17 |
| Houston | 19 | 20 | 20 |
| Nebraska | 20 | 14 | 29 |
| Kentucky | 21 | 47 | 15 |
| Mississippi State | 22 | 28 | 16 |
| Southern California | 23 | 21 | 19 |
| Florida | 24 | 32 | 32 |
| Northwestern | 25 | 17 | 25 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | 34 | 26 |
| Texas A&M | 27 | 46 | |
| South Carolina | 28 | 37 | |
| Wake Forest | 29 | 35 | 21 |
| Arizona | 30 | 19 | 28 |
| Louisville | 31 | 25 | |
| Baylor | 32 | 27 | |
| Auburn | 33 | 33 | |
| Pittsburgh | 34 | 36 | |
| Oklahoma State | 35 | 22 | 18 |
| Michigan | 36 | 23 | |
| Penn State | 37 | 38 | |
| Boise State | 38 | 42 | 23 |
| Clemson | 39 | 61 | |
| North Carolina | 40 | 56 | |
| Purdue | 41 | 62 | |
| SMU | 42 | 26 | 24 |
| Duke | 43 | 45 | 33 |
| Florida State | 44 | 54 | |
| Illinois | 45 | 53 | |
| Central Florida(UCF) | 46 | 57 | |
| Minnesota | 47 | 60 | |
| Washington | 48 | 52 | |
| Virginia Tech | 49 | 39 | |
| Virginia | 50 | 44 |
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In other, less interesting results:
Indiana was very fortune to leave Nebraska with a win. They trailed 17-6 in the fourth quarter, and were outplayed the entire game. Nebraska held on to the ball for 40 minutes and ran 83 offensive plays, compared to 44 plays in 20 minutes for Indiana. Indiana was successful on only one of 10 third-down conversions. If you look at the stats, you’d think Nebraska won by three TDs. But that’s not how it went down. The only thing that really matters is the points on the scoreboard at the end of the game. Indiana won 20-17.
Some takeaways from this game:
1) Nebraska is really good. I didn’t realize that. It’s outrageous that they were unranked with a 5-0 record.
2) Indiana showed some real grit in coming back to win against a team that was dominating them.
3) Indiana is going to have its hands full with Ohio State next week, even though the Hoosiers will be at home.
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Well, I guess I can stop talking about Florida. After having been vanquished by unranked South Carolina, the Gators’ roller coaster ride through the AP voting has placed them back where they started – unranked.

The Gators had some good moments this week, but poor pass defense and three turnovers proved costly. By the way, that was South Carolina’s first conference win after three defeats.
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#10 LSU lost to unranked Kentucky 35-34 in OT. Weirdly enough, Kentucky won last week by the exact same score. The computers still like LSU, but the AP dropped them all the way to #22.
#13 Oregon also lost, to #21 UCLA. Neither team moved the ball well in a 17-15 game. I don’t know whether that was great D or lackluster O. The computers still like Oregon, but they have dropped all the way out of the AP rankings.























