Ohio State climbed to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 after defeating preseason No. 1 Texas and received 55 of 66 first-place votes, marking its first regular-season top ranking since November 2015. Penn State held No. 2 with seven first-place votes. LSU rose to No. 3 after beating Clemson, with Georgia and Miami completing the top five. Texas fell to No. 7 amid a weekend that saw multiple top teams lose. Florida State surged to No. 14 following a 31-17 win over Alabama, which tumbled to No. 21, its lowest placement since the 2008 preseason. Utah joined at No. 25 as a newcomer.
Ohio State climbed to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll on Tuesday, LSU and Miami moved into the top five, and Florida State jumped back into the rankings at the expense of Alabama, which plummeted to its lowest spot in 17 seasons. The defending national champion Buckeyes received 55 of 66 first-place votes to move up two spots after their win over preseason No. 1 Texas. Ohio State is at the top of a regular-season poll for the first time since November 2015.
Texas dropped to No. 7 as the media voters shuffled the rankings following a topsy-turvy Labor Day weekend. It was only the second time, and first since 1972, that two top-five teams lost in Week 1 and the first time four top-10 teams lost. Only three teams in the Top 25 are in the same spot they were in the preseason poll.
The biggest movers in the poll were Florida State and Alabama after the Seminoles' 31-17 victory in their head-to-head matchup: Florida State, 15 spots outside the Top 25 in the preseason, is now No. 14. Alabama dropped all the way from No. 8 to No. 21 -- its lowest ranking since it was No. 24 in the 2008 preseason poll. That was the second of Nick Saban's 17 teams in Tuscaloosa.
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