College Football Rankings: Week 13 AP Top 25 poll winners and losers
The new AP Top 25 poll sees the Iowa Hawkeyes move up to No. 3 after the Ohio State Buckeyes dropped all the way to No. 8 after losing to the Michigan State Spartans.
Week 12 was a wild one as we saw nine ranked teams lose, including three undefeated teams in Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Houston as the Week 13 AP Top 25 poll features a lot of new teams and teams in new places.
There was no change at the top where the Clemson Tigers are in the No. 1 spot again and the Alabama Crimson Tide moved up one spot to No. 2 with Ohio State losing. Iowa, Notre Dame and Oklahoma round out the top five.
Michigan State moved up three spots to No. 6 after beating Ohio State with a field goal as time expired and got back in the playoff conversation with the huge upset win.
The No. 7 Baylor Bears did the same with a convincing win against Oklahoma State who dropped to No. 9, one spot below Ohio State and one spot ahead of the Florida Gators who needed overtime to beat Florida Atlantic.
The biggest loser in this week’s AP Top 25 is Tom Herman’s Houston team that dropped eight spots from No. 13 to No. 21.
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Conversely, the biggest winner of the ranked teams this week is UCLA who moved up eight spots to No. 22, Temple who moved up seven spots to No. 25, Mississippi State who moved up six spots to No. 23, Ole Miss who also moved up six spots to No. 19 and the Oregon Ducks who moved up five spots to No. 18.
Here’s the complete AP Top 25 courtesy of the AP:
(###) Number of first place votes
Points
1,518
2
Alabama (6)
Record: 10-1
3
1,469
3
Record: 11-0
6
1,325
4
Record: 10-1
5
1,317
5
Record: 10-1
7
1,295
6
Record: 10-1
9
1,286
7
Record: 9-1
10
1,161
8
Record: 10-1
2
1,051
9
Record: 10-1
4
995
10
Record: 10-1
8
926
11
Record: 10-1
12
900
12
Record: 9-2
14
855
13
Record: 9-2
15
816
14
Record: 9-2
16
680
15
Record: 9-2
11
652
16
Record: 9-1
19
647
17
Record: 9-2
20
593
18
Record: 8-3
23
470
19
Record: 8-3
25
358
20
Record: 8-3
24
354
21
Record: 10-1
13
275
22
Record: 8-3
30
230
23
Record: 8-3
29
132
24
Record: 9-1
26
123
25
Record: 9-2
32
107
How would your personal top 25 look entering Week 13?
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