{"id":863197,"date":"2026-09-28T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863197\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:15","slug":"ap-poll-top-25-rankings-for-week-5-georgia-football-stays-at-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863197\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 5: Georgia football stays at No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text-v2\">ATHENS \u2014 Georgia is ever so closely inching its way to the No. 1 overall spot in the AP Poll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">For the AP Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 5, Georgia is still at No. 2 after beating Oklahoma 41-13 on Saturday. But after getting three first-place votes last week, Georgia now has six. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/coaches-poll-top-25-rankings-week-5-georgia-keeps-its-no-2-ranking\/JLJ2LHRBHFHRXCHEWCCX5WRIDA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georgia is also No. 2<\/a> in the Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">The Bulldogs dominated on the defensive side of the ball, holding Oklahoma under 300 yards of total offense while forcing four turnovers and coming away with three sacks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia consistently made Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer uncomfortable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get better at everything,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/everything-kirby-smart-after-georgia-beats-oklahoma\/FV4MER64Y5EKREWGNGCNCJOK6M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. <\/a>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be more efficient. Defensively, we\u2019ve got to have more three and outs, more disruption. You know, we pressured today and didn\u2019t finish. We affected the quarterback, but we didn\u2019t really hit the quarterback. We affected the quarterback. We did not hit the quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Ahead of Georgia in the polls is Texas, which came away with a road win over Tennessee. It was not pretty for the Longhorns, but it now has wins over ranked Ohio State and Tennessee teams. None of Georgia\u2019s four wins have come against currently ranked opponents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Rounding out the top five is Notre Dame at No. 3, Miami at No. 4 and Ohio State at No. 5. Ole Miss, which was No. 4 last week, fell to No. 9 after it lost 52-28 to Florida. The Gators are now ranked No. 8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia plays both of those teams, in addition to No. 7 Alabama. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Before Georgia gets the chance to really impress against currently ranked teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/georgia-vanderbilt-game-time-tv-network-announced-week-5-game\/Q7AW3H4RTBFJVPGOQV2R5BDIQY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Bulldogs have a home game against Vanderbilt<\/a> this coming Saturday. The Commodores are coming off their first loss of the season, as they fell 21-15 to Auburn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia has not yet played a four-quarter game, which speaks to how dominant the team has been to this point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cWe will have benefited from exposures and less risk of injuries, but we\u2019ll also have to see how they play in tight ballgames,\u201d Smart said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s going to be tight ballgames, and you\u2019re going to have to execute at a high level, and you\u2019re going to have to be conditioned to execute at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia\u2019s game against Vanderbilt is set for a 12:45 p.m. start on the SEC Network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">You can see the full AP Poll Top 25 rankings below. <\/p>\n<p>AP Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 5TexasGeorgiaNotre DameMiamiOhio StateIndianaAlabamaFloridaOle MissBYULSUTexas TechUtahIowaOregonMississippi StateTennesseeUSCOklahoma StateHoustonSMUBoise StateUCLAKentuckyMissouri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS \u2014 Georgia is ever so closely inching its way to the No. 1 overall spot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1976,399,681,398,396,397,9600,7702,99],"class_list":["post-863197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college","tag-football","tag-georgia","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-oklahoma","tag-sec","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}