{"id":887148,"date":"2026-10-19T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887148\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:30:24","slug":"coaches-poll-top-25-rankings-georgia-drops-from-no-1-spot-after-home-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887148\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings: Georgia drops from No. 1 spot after home loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text-v2\">ATHENS \u2014 Not that Kirby Smart cares, but Georgia is no longer the No. 1 team in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">The Georgia Bulldogs dropped out of the No. 1 spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coaches Poll top 25 rankings<\/a> for Week 8, moving down to No. 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">The fall was precipitated by a stunning<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/georgia-explains-why-dawgs-beat-dawgs-stunning-loss-auburn\/VTYOLYT6JNCWLABB5SRP5TN7RI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> home loss to the unranked Auburn Tigers. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">It marked the first time since the 2019 season that Georgia lost to an unranked team. The Bulldogs had won 53 straight games against such teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">After the game, Smart did his best to try and push the team past its disappointing defeat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cI\u2019m really only worried about my team,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/kirby-smart-confident-how-georgia-will-respond-following-upset-loss\/MDJMWJ5LO5HGVJRBZ7GQ4IKHAM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Smart said.<\/a> \u201cI really think the rankings don\u2019t matter, you know? The only thing that\u2019s gonna matter is what you do next week. And next week is just as hard a game as this week. And the next week is just as hard a game as this week. There is nowhere to run and hide in this league. Nowhere. And so you just gotta find ways to get better and try to win the next moment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia was far from the only top team to lose on Saturday, as five of the previous top seven teams in the Coaches Poll also lost. Notre Dame and Alabama lost to ranked teams on the road, while Georgia and Texas were upended by unranked teams at home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Miami is the new No. 1 team, followed by Ohio State at No. 2. BYU is up to No. 3. Texas Tech rounds out the top five. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">As for what is next for Georgia, the Bulldogs get a much-needed week off. The Bulldogs are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgnation.com\/gameday\/kirby-smart-clarifies-gunner-stockton-injury-how-georgia-missed-kj-bolden\/TLSWCRLJGZDRHL4C4LMEDFS43Y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">banged-up football team<\/a>, as it was without star safety KJ Bolden on Saturday. Gunner Stockton, Dwight Phillips Jr. and Elijah Griffin all left Saturday\u2019s game at different points, though all did return to action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cWe\u2019ve gotta get some guys healthy and back,\u201d Smart said. \u201cWe had about eight or nine guys that really didn\u2019t practice this week, in terms of getting into the game, coming out of the last game. And we gotta improve, we can\u2019t turn the ball over, we can\u2019t have undisciplined penalties. But we\u2019re really good in some areas. We got a good defense, we got a good offense, but we gotta get better. I need more players to play winning football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia\u2019s next three foes are all ranked at the moment. The Bulldogs play No. 24 Florida on Oct. 31 before visiting No. 7 Ole Miss. Georgia\u2019s next home game comes against No. 21 Missouri, but that game isn\u2019t until Nov. 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">You can see the full Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings below for Week 8. <\/p>\n<p>Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 8MiamiOhio StateBYUGeorgiaTexas TechIndianaOle MissNotre DameUtahUCLATennesseeKentuckyAlabamaIowaUSCHoustonLSUTexasWake ForestSMUMissouriBoiseNorthwesternFloridaOregon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS \u2014 Not that Kirby Smart cares, but Georgia is no longer the No. 1 team in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5184,399,681,398,396,397,7702,99],"class_list":["post-887148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-auburn","tag-football","tag-georgia","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sec","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887148","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=887148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}