{"id":75383,"date":"2025-12-08T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75383\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:12:16","slug":"college-football-rankings-where-alabama-notre-dame-miami-rank-in-ap-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75383\/","title":{"rendered":"College football rankings: Where Alabama, Notre Dame, Miami rank in AP top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TXUODVSPBNBL3BT33Y3BHO2VV4\">Alabama football fell <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\">in the AP top 25 rankings<\/a> released Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/12\/is-alabama-in-the-playoff-heres-what-latest-cfp-bracket-predictions-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/12\/is-alabama-in-the-playoff-heres-what-latest-cfp-bracket-predictions-say.html\">before the College Football Playoff rankings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I5OWWNSI5ZA4FLP4YZLDR7DREU\">The Crimson Tide dropped to No. 11 in the AP poll. Alabama had been ranked No. 10 before it lost to Georgia in the SEC Championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ORQ6U33UYJB6FPFBWJR5FSIX7I\">Miami moved up two spots to No. 10 with BYU also falling one spot to No. 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"H4SM3OKIWNHWHE44HYCKM5NKFQ\">Based on the AP poll, Alabama would be out of the playoff. Notre Dame is No. 9 and Miami is the last at-large team in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7TVRF2FFSND3ZHB4OFA7R45NIE\">But these rankings don\u2019t ultimately matter for the Crimson Tide\u2019s hopes of reaching the 12-team field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZKZC6ZD6WBBGNMAWJTF4CX3AL4\">Georgia, after beating Alabama, moved up to No. 2. The Bulldogs had been ranked No. 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VFVVWDYB7BGPTGI32NSDS462O4\">Alabama will learn its CFP fate at 11 a.m. CT on Sunday. The CFP reveal will be on ESPN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZVPJN6I7S5DFJC5CIQVPZVWCX4\">Based on the latest AP poll, Alabama\u2019s resume includes wins over No. 2 Georgia, No. 13 Vanderbilt and No. 25 Missouri. It has losses to No. 2 Georgia, No. 8 Oklahoma and Florida State. <\/p>\n<p>AP top 25 rankings: Dec. 7IndianaGeorgiaOhio StateTexas TechOregonOle MissTexas A&amp;MOklahomaNotre DameMiamiAlabamaBYUVanderbiltTexasUtahSouthern CalTulaneMichiganJames MadisonVirginiaArizonaNavyNorth TexasGeorgia TechMissouri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama football fell in the AP top 25 rankings released Sunday before the College Football Playoff rankings. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42702,2531,7849,4669,42703,19502,42704,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-75383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2025-sec-football-championship","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-atlanta","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-kalen-deboer","tag-kirby-smart","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75383","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=75383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}