College football rankings: Week 5 Top 25 – Oklahoma, LSU fall, Ohio State back
The college football rankings are radically different after Oklahoma and LSU losses and the return of Big Ten and Pac-12 teams in the AP Top 25.
The first three weeks of the college football season were a nice refresher of what we had missed for about eight months, but fans got real competitive action in Week 4 with the SEC back and the ACC and Big 12 facing more conference foes.
We are still a month away from the Big Ten returning and the Pac-12 recently announced it would be returning in November with a seven-game schedule as well as the Mountain West. There are now just three teams in college football that won’t be playing games this season.
Yes, that means the AP Top 25 is going to be just that much more exciting.
The AP Top 25 welcomes back the Big Ten and Pac-12 teams and losses from Oklahoma and LSU open up two spots inside the Top 10
Saturday kicked off with a couple of intriguing SEC matchups between Florida and Ole Miss as well as Kentucky and Auburn. Florida put up some points but the defense looked shaky, holding off Lane Kiffin and the Rebels in Oxford while Auburn held on against a pesky Kentucky team that returned Terry Wilson after an injury ended his 2019 season early.
The big surprise of Saturday was a Kansas State upset win over Oklahoma in Norman. The Sooners had a 14-point lead late, but the Wildcats didn’t let up and pulled off an upset for the second straight year.
The upsets didn’t stop there, though. Defending national champion LSU dropped its first game of the season against Mississippi State and Mike Leach’s air-raid offense. It looks like the Bulldogs may be contenders after all.
Week 4 ended with the College GameDay featured contest between Miami and Florida State and the Hurricanes made yet another statement with a blowout win over their rival.
The top 25 this week is going to look incredibly different this week with the Big Ten, Mountain West and Pac-12 now eligible to receive votes.
Week 4 AP Top 25 projections
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Ohio State
- Florida
- Notre Dame
- Georgia
- Auburn
- Miami
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- Oklahoma
- LSU
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- UCF
- Cincinnati
- Oklahoma State
- Tennessee
- Penn State
- Memphis
- Michigan
- BYU
- Virginia Tech
- Pitt
- Mississippi State
With the Big Ten, Mountain West and Pac-12 eligible, do you see more teams from those conferences replacing those previously in the AP Top 25? It’s going to be an interesting week.
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