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College football power rankings: Wisconsin rising; Michigan, Notre Dame slide

By Connor Muldowney

MADISON, WI - SEPTEMBER 21: Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Tarik Black (7) goes up and battles with Wisconsin Badgers corner back Faion Hicks (1) to make the catch a college football game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Wisconsin Badgers on September 21, 2019, at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, WI. (Photo by Dan Sanger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MADISON, WI - SEPTEMBER 21: Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Tarik Black (7) goes up and battles with Wisconsin Badgers corner back Faion Hicks (1) to make the catch a college football game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Wisconsin Badgers on September 21, 2019, at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, WI. (Photo by Dan Sanger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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The AP Poll will look radically different after Notre Dame, Utah, Michigan, Texas A&M and UCF all lost. Here’s how the Week 5 Top 25 should look.

This was one of the best weekends of the season so far and there will be big changes in the Week 5 AP Poll. Friday night delivered a big upset with Matt Fink leading USC to a win over No. 10 Utah. The Utes were one of three teams in the top 11 to lose this weekend.

Michigan traveled to Wisconsin in the first major Big Ten battle of the 2019 season but the Wolverines were out-classed for 60 minutes, losing 35-14. The final score wasn’t as close as the separation between the two teams really was. The Wolverines look like they have a serious quarterback issue with Shea Patterson potentially losing his job to Dylan McCaffrey. Meanwhile, the Badgers look like the best team in the Big Ten West and Jonathan Taylor remains entrenched in the early Heisman conversation.

The other big game that will shake-up the top-10 was Georgia outlasting Notre Dame in Athens for a 23-17 win. Notre Dame kept the final score closer than the 15-point spread would have indicated, but the Irish also didn’t look that great.

Auburn looked strong in their road win at Texas A&M. Bo Nix looks like a star-in-the-making.

But the biggest upset of the weekend saw UCF give up a last-second touchdown to Pitt who completed the comeback win vs. the Knights who had won their last 27 regular-season games. UCF played their way into the periphery of the College Football Playoff discussion the last two years but this loss ends the conversation a month before the first playoff rankings debut.

Week 5 AP Poll projected Top 25

  1. Clemson
  2. Alabama
  3. Georgia
  4. LSU
  5. Oklahoma
  6. Ohio State
  7. Auburn
  8. Florida
  9. Wisconsin
  10. Texas
  11. Notre Dame
  12. Iowa
  13. Penn State
  14. Boise State
  15. Utah
  16. Michigan
  17. Virginia
  18. Washington
  19. Cal
  20. Kansas State
  21. Washington State
  22. Michigan State
  23. UCF
  24. Arizona State
  25. Texas A&M

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