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College football rankings: New AP Top 25 brings big moves for multiple teams
Florida Gators quarterback Aaron Philo (12) hands off to running back Duke Clark (20) during the third quarter against the Auburn Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

College football rankings: New AP Top 25 brings big moves for multiple teams

The LSU vs. Ole Miss game certainly lived up to the hype, and with minutes left on the clock, it could still have gone either way. But, ultimately, LSU fell to Ole Miss, 32-24, and that made both of these teams move in the new AP Top 25 rankings.

Thanks to that win over LSU, Ole Miss is moving up, and the Tigers are moving down. That's just how things work in football. You win, you get higher in the rankings, and you lose, you fall.

Another major move that happened with the new AP Top 25 is the Florida Gators going from unranked to No. 21. Florida had a big win at Auburn, and that, combined with some of the teams towards the bottom of the Top 25 losing, was enough to take the Gators up into flirting with the top-20 range.

Not surprisingly, a big upset means major changes in the rankings, and that's the case for Texas A&M. The team was No. 9 before Saturday, and now it's No. 23.

Texas A&M lost to an unranked opponent, the Kentucky Wildcats, on its own turf, which isn't a good look. Now, there are real questions about this team's offense and how it will do going forward. It's just one game, but when you lose to an unranked opponent, it takes on much more weight.

So, here are the new AP Top 25 rankings going into Week 4, counting all of the latest college football action.

AP Top 25 Rankings for Week 4

  1. Texas
  2. Georgia
  3. Notre Dame
  4. Ole Miss (+4)
  5. Indiana (-1)
  6. Miami (-1)
  7. Ohio State (-1)
  8. Alabama (+2)
  9. BYU (+2)
  10. LSU (-3)
  11. Texas Tech (+2)
  12. USC
  13. Penn State (+1)
  14. Tennessee (+1)
  15. Utah (+2)
  16. Louisville (+7)
  17. Iowa (+1)
  18. Michigan (+1)
  19. Missouri (+1)
  20. Oregon (+1)
  21. Florida (NR)
  22. SMU (-6)
  23. Texas A&M (-14)
  24. Mississippi State (NR)
  25. Houston (-3)
Anne Erickson

Anne Erickson is an award-winning news reporter covering the NFL, NBA, college sports and more for Yardbarker. Erickson has years of experience covering the NFL and other sports, and her work has been published by Fox Sports, ESPN and Newsweek, among others. She has also interviewed a bevy of big names in sports and entertainment, including Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, Lions edge Aidan Hutchinson and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott

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