A week after I ranked Texas No. 1 on my AP Top 25 ballot, of course the Longhorns lost and Georgia went back to looking like the best team.
This still feels like a college football season that has much more parity than recent years, but my ballot is going back to the familiar — at least at the top. Let’s dive into this week’s rankings: 1. I apologize, Georgia. Please forgive me — or thank me and several other voters for the extra motivation? Moving the down a spot after a close win at Auburn to put Texas No. 1 seemed reasonable at the time, but here we are a short week later: , and I’m back to the beginning. So it goes.
In fact, it’s the 23rd time a Oklahoma-Texas game both 1) featured two ranked teams and 2) was decided by eight points or fewer. That ties it with Michigan-Ohio State for the most ranked matchups decided by eight points or fewer since the AP poll began in 1936.
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