After ‘Notre Dame’s’ solid 28-7 win over Boise State at home on “Irish Wear Green” day, the Irish climbed five spots and jumped well into the top-20 at #16 in the AP and the Coaches Poll.<\/p>\n
Five top-20 teams lost over the weekend, three of them to unranked opponents. That included two then-top-10 teams, Penn State and Texas, losing to unranked opponents with losing records. All five of the top-20 losers plummeted below the Irish, in some cases falling completely out of the rankings.<\/p>\n
Last week the Irish were the only team without a winning record ranked in the top-25, sitting at .500. With the win over Boise State they finally climb above .500 on the year, to 3-2.<\/p>\n
In the AP top-25, the Irish are joined by one other 3-2 team, #25 Florida State, with previous top-10 Texas and Penn State, each now 3-2, falling out of the top-25 entirely.\u00a0 Over in the Coaches Poll, it was Florida State that dropped out, while 3-2 Texas and Penn State are at #19 and #22.<\/p>\n
More of the story follows below the rankings.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 Ohio State 5-0 Also receiving votes:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Cincinnati 129, Texas 111, Penn State 97, Utah 82, Nebraska 60, USC<\/strong> 46, UNLV 19, North Texas 16, TCU 14, Mississippi State 10, Washington 10, Navy<\/strong> 4, Louisville 3, Auburn 1<\/td>\n 1 Ohio State 5-0 Also receiving votes:<\/em> Utah 134, Florida State 93, Cincinnati 70, South Florida 65, North Texas 28, Navy<\/strong> 26, Washington 25, USC<\/strong> 23, UNLV 21, Nebraska 17, TCU 15, Old Dominion 13, Louisville 10, Tulane 8, Duke 7, Auburn 7, Iowa 5, SMU 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Then-#10\/7 Texas lost to a Florida team with a losing record. Most infamously, then-#7\/6 Penn State lost to a previously winless UCLA, with the Bruins under an interim coach after firing their previous head coach.<\/p>\n In the AP, the Longhorns and the Nittany Lions went into freefall, actually going from being in the top-10 to falling completely out of the rankings.\u00a0 In the Coaches Poll, Texas\u00a0 fell to #19, while the Nittany Lions plummeted to #22.<\/p>\n Iowa State lost to unranked Cincinnati, who has a solid 4-1 record but remains unranked. Vanderbilt lost to top-10 Alabama. Then-#19 Florida State lost by six points to top-5 Miami (Fla.) and fell out of the rankings in the Coaches Poll, while hanging on at #25 in the AP.<\/p>\n (Steve Welsh – SCW 10.5.25)<\/em><\/p>\n\n (* Texas A&M wins include one where the winning touchdown in the final seconds was essentially the result of cheating, when, on the Aggies’ last offensive play of the game, an Aggie offensive lineman tackled a pass rusher from behind as he was barreling towards the quarterback; but an SEC officiating crew ignored the penalty and did not throw a flag; without the cheating and\/or the non-call, the Aggies likely would be 2-1)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After ‘Notre Dame’s’ solid 28-7 win over Boise State at home on “Irish Wear Green” day, the Irish climbed five spots and jumped well into the top-20 at #16 in the AP and the Coaches Poll. Five top-20 teams lost over the weekend, three of them to unranked opponents. That included two then-top-10 teams, Penn State and Texas, losing to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,353,306,198,354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football-rankings","category-featured","category-featured-article","category-headlines","category-irish-game-day"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n
\n – AP –<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2 Oregon 5-0
\n3 Miami (Fla.)<\/strong> 4-0
\n4 Ole Miss 5-0
\n5 Texas A&M<\/strong> 4-0*<\/strong>
\n6 Oklahoma 5-0
\n7 Indiana 5-0
\n8 Alabama 4-1
\n0 Texas Tech 5-0
\n10 Georgia 4-1
\n11 LSU 4-1
\n12 Tennessee 4-1
\n13 Georgia Tech 5-0
\n14 Missouri 5-0
\n15 Michigan 4-1
\n16 Notre Dame<\/strong> 3-2
\n17 Illinois 5-1
\n18 BYU 5-0
\n19 Virginia 5-1
\n20 Vanderbilt 5-1
\n21 Arizona State 4-1
\n22 Iowa State 5-1
\n23 Memphis 6-0
\n24 South Florida 4-1
\n18 Florida State 3-2<\/p>\n– AFCA Coaches Poll –<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2 Oregon 5-0
\n3 Miami (Fla.)<\/strong> 5-0
\n4 Ole Miss 5-0
\n5 Texas A&M<\/strong> 5-0*
\n6 Oklahoma 5-0
\n7 Indiana 5-0
\n8 Alabama 4-1
\n9 Georgia 4-1
\n10 Texas Tech 5-0
\n11 LSU 4-1
\n12 Tennessee 4-1
\n13 Georgia Tech 5-0
\n14 Missouri 5-0
\n15 Michigan 4-1
\n16 Notre Dame<\/strong> 3-2
\n17 Illinois 5-1
\n18 BYU 5-0
\n19 Texas 3-2
\n20 Vanderbilt 5-1
\n21 Iowa State 5-1
\n22 Penn State 3-2
\n23 Arizona State 4-1
\n24 Virginia 5-1
\n25 Memphis 6-0<\/p>\n