The status quo has dominated the top of the AP poll since midseason. Can upsets and remaining big games finally create a ranking shake-up?
Though Week 10 might have been the most exciting yet this college football season, time is running out for true poll chaos. Ten thoughts on this week’s AP Top 25 and my vote, with some historical context: 1. There’s been at least one win by an unranked team against an AP top-five opponent every year since 1994. There have been a few years with only one — as recently as 2018 — while others have swung the other direction, led by the 13 upsets in a chaotic 2007.
Can they get the type of marquee win that has largely eluded them and stay alive in the Big Ten race? Penn State is Michigan’s first ranked opponent of the season. 5. Despite sharing a conference for more than a century, Georgia and Ole Miss have met only 45 times. This is the fifth time both are ranked — joining Ole Miss’ win in 2016 and Georgia’s wins in 1999, 1991 and 1968 — but the first time both are ranked in the top 10.