{"id":431591,"date":"2026-10-18T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431591\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:38:10","slug":"miami-is-no-1-in-ap-top-25-for-1st-time-since-02-no-2-byus-ranking-best-since-84-title-season-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431591\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami is No. 1 in AP Top 25 for 1st time since \u201902, No. 2 BYU\u2019s ranking best since \u201984 title season \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami is No. 1 in\u00a0The Associated Press Top 25<\/a>\u00a0for the first time since 2002, No. 2 BYU has its highest ranking since its 1984 national championship season and Notre Dame and Georgia stayed in the top five Sunday after both lost close games.<\/p>\n

The wildest and wackiest week of the college football season so far saw five of the top seven teams lose \u2014 a first in the AP poll’s 90-year history. Miami and BYU were the biggest beneficiaries of the chaos and were joined by Ohio State in a tightly bunched top three.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes took over the top spot from Georgia, which lasted one week at No. 1 after\u00a0losing to Auburn at home.<\/a>\u00a0The Bulldogs were the second No. 1 team in two weeks \u2014 Texas was the other \u2014 to lose to an unranked opponent.<\/p>\n

Miami survived end-of-game drama to\u00a0beat rival Florida State in double overtime<\/a>\u00a0and stay unbeaten. The Hurricanes’ two-spot jump made them No. 1 for the first time since the 2002 season ended in the national championship game against Ohio State.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes received 40 of the 70 first-place votes from the media voting panel and were just 22 points ahead of BYU, which won a thriller at home over Notre Dame. The Cougars got 20 first-place votes and were 26 points ahead of Ohio State. The Buckeyes got nine first-place votes and were well ahead of No. 4 Notre Dame and No. 5 Georgia.<\/p>\n

Miami is the first No. 1 team from the Atlantic Coast Conference team since Clemson in 2020. Other than Clemson, there had not been another ACC team ranked No. 1 since Florida State in 2014.<\/p>\n

BYU went into its game against Notre Dame as a 10.5-point underdog and came out with a\u00a028-24 win<\/a>\u00a0to go 6-0 for a third straight year. Since their championship season 42 years ago, the Cougars hadn’t been higher than No. 4 in a poll or in the top five since 1996.<\/p>\n

Every single spot in the Top 25 has a new team this week, but only two teams dropped out of the rankings. A wholesale shakeup of the top 10 did not happen largely because Notre Dame, Georgia and No. 6 Indiana had built-up capital with their 6-0 starts, plus the losses by the Fighting Irish and Hoosiers were against top-10 opponents.<\/p>\n

Indiana, which\u00a0lost at home to Ohio State<\/a>, was followed by Mississippi, Texas Tech, UCLA and Utah. Texas Tech received the remaining first-place vote.<\/p>\n

Alabama’s loss at Tennessee<\/a>\u00a0dropped the Crimson Tide seven spots to No. 13 and Texas plummeted 12 rungs to No. 19 after its\u00a0home loss to Florida.<\/a><\/p>\n

In and out<\/p>\n

In: No. 20 Florida, which dropped out last week after consecutive lopsided losses, is back after going to Texas and handing the Longhorns a second loss in a row.<\/p>\n

In: No. 25 Arizona, which had an open date, has four straight double-digit wins since losing to BYU and makes its season debut in the poll.<\/p>\n

Out: Oklahoma State’s\u00a0loss at Houston<\/a>\u00a0brought an end to the Cowboys’ three-week run in the poll.<\/p>\n

Out: Mississippi State got bounced for the\u00a031-0 loss at LSU<\/a>\u00a0that followed a\u00a023-point home loss to Alabama.<\/a><\/p>\n

Poll points<\/p>\n

\u2014 The last time the SEC’s top team in the rankings \u2014 it’s No. 5 Georgia this week \u2014 was behind teams from each of the other power conferences was Dec. 3, 2023, when Alabama was No. 5 behind teams from the Big Ten (Michigan), Pac-12 (Washington), Big 12 (Texas) and ACC (Florida State).<\/p>\n

\u2014 The last time the Nos. 1 and 2 teams lost in the same week in the regular season was 2017, when No. 1 Alabama lost to Auburn and No. 2 Miami lost to Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The last time unranked teams knocked off No. 1s in consecutive weeks was 1990. Miami hosts unranked Pittsburgh on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u2014 No. 9 UCLA has matched its highest ranking since 2022 and No. 14 Houston has its highest ranking since it was No. 11 at midseason in 2016.<\/p>\n

Conference call<\/p>\n

SEC (9 ranked teams): No. 5 Georgia, No. 7 Mississippi, No. 11 Tennessee, No. 12 Kentucky, No. 13 Alabama, No. 18 LSU, No. 19 Texas, No. 20 Florida, No. 22 Missouri.<\/p>\n

Big Ten (6): No. 3 Ohio State, No. 6 Indiana, No. 9 UCLA, No. 15 Iowa, No. 16 USC, No. 24 Northwestern.<\/p>\n

Big 12 (5): No. 2 BYU, No. 8 Texas Tech, No. 10 Utah, No. 14 Houston, No. 25 Arizona.<\/p>\n

ACC (3): No. 1 Miami, No. 17 Wake Forest, No. 23 SMU\/<\/p>\n

Pac-12 (1): No. 21 Boise State.<\/p>\n

Independent (1): No. 4 Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

Ranked vs. ranked<\/p>\n

No. 7 Mississippi at No. 19 Texas: The Rebels have found their footing after that 24-point loss to Florida, outscoring Vanderbilt and Missouri by a combined 83-20.\u00a0Longhorns are reeling<\/a>\u00a0and might have a new QB this week.<\/p>\n

No. 14 Houston at No. 10 Utah: The Cougars have beaten one ranked team each of the last three seasons and will go for a second against an unbeaten\u00a0Utah team that escaped Colorado<\/a>\u00a0as a 15.5-point favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami is No. 1 in\u00a0The Associated Press Top 25\u00a0for the first time since 2002, No. 2 BYU has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,5079,124],"class_list":["post-431591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}