Vanderbilt is a top-10 team in college football for the first time since 1947 in an Associated Press poll that got a near-complete makeover Sunday after a weekend when nine Top 25 teams lost.
Ohio State was the only team to hold its spot, remaining No. 1 for an eighth straight week after shutting out Wisconsin 34-0 on the road.
Beyond the Buckeyes, significant revision was required with four top-10 teams losing in the same week for a third time this season. Nine Top 25 losing teams were the most since Week 5 in 2022, when 10 went down, according to Sportradar. Four of the losses this week were to unranked opponents.
The Buckeyes received 60 first-place votes, 10 more than a week ago. No. 2 Indiana pulled away from Michigan State, improved its program-record ranking by one spot and got the other six first-place votes.
Texas A&M’s one-rung promotion to No. 3 gives the Aggies their highest ranking since 1995. No. 4 Alabama has its highest ranking of the season and No. 5 Georgia returned to the top five after a three-week absence.
Oregon, Georgia Tech, Mississippi, Miami and Vanderbilt round out the top 10.
Vanderbilt’s history-making rise comes shortly after the announcement that they will host ESPN’s College GameDay next weekend for only the second time ever.
The Ducks, meanwhile, bounced back from their home loss to Indiana with a lopsided road win over Rutgers.
Georgia Tech, which won at Duke, hadn’t been in the top 10 since 2014 or ranked as high since 2009. Mississippi’s loss to Georgia caused it to slip three spots, and Miami fell seven after losing to unranked Louisville.
Vanderbilt rallied from its loss at Alabama two weeks ago with a 31-24 win over then-No. 10 LSU.
The Commodores earned a seven-spot promotion for their first win over the Tigers since 1990. At 6-1, Vandy is off to its best start since 1950 with two wins over ranked opponents.
Texas Tech’s first loss came at Arizona State and dropped the Red Raiders seven spots to No. 14.
LSU took the biggest fall, plunging 10 spots to No. 20 for its lowest ranking of the season.
