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The 2025 college football season still features six undefeated teams heading into the homestretch of another contentious campaign, and after a busy weekend of big-time victories for the nation’s elite teams there aren’t many changes at the top of this week’s AP Top 25 Poll.
The AP Top 25 College Football Poll is about to finally be rendered utterly useless when the College Football Playoff rankings show kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 4, but even with its final breaths of relevance it still found a way to be embarrassingly inaccurate.
No. 3 Texas A&M looks to be the real deal after destroying No. 20 LSU, 49-25, in Death Valley. The Tigers have lost three out of the past four games after starting the season 4-0. Coach Brian Kelly is 5-11 vs. AP ranked teams, and his team is no longer in the top 25.
What the BCS top 25 would have looked like as we move into November, and how it compares with the AP college football rankings moving into Week 10.
Vanderbilt earned its highest AP Top 25 ranking in 88 years, while LSU dropped out of the poll following its third loss in four games.
The Big 12 title race takes center stage in Week 10, as the Cincinnati Bearcats visit the Utah Utes. Cincinnati is tied with the BYU Cougars atop the Big 12 standings with a 5-0 conference record. Utah is one of a few teams that needs to win out and get some help to land in the Big 12 Championship Game.
Elsewhere in Big Ten play, Washington upended No. 23 Illinois 42-25 in Seattle, improving the Huskies to 6-2 on the season and 3-2 in conference play. Sticking in the Pacific Northwest, No. 6 Oregon — playing much of the second half without quarterback Dante Moore — ground out a 21-7 win over visiting Wisconsin.
The top four seeds remain unchanged on the College Football Playoff bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday, but three of the four first-round matchups would change and Memphis returned as the Group of Five representative.