Overview

• Ohio State stays No. 1 with 40 first-place votes, its lowest total since taking over, while Miami collects 21 and leaps idle Oregon to No. 2.
• Penn State’s 42-37 loss at previously winless UCLA triggers one of the poll’s largest single-week falls, matching 1959 Oklahoma’s drop out of the rankings.
• Texas falls from No. 9 to unranked after a 29-21 defeat at Florida, marking the first time since 1986 that two top-10 teams exited the poll in the same week.
• Texas Tech jumps to No. 9 for its highest position since 2008, with Memphis at No. 23 and South Florida at No. 24 returning to the Top 25.
• Week 6 results driving the shakeup include Ohio State’s 42-3 rout of Minnesota, Miami’s 28-22 win at Florida State, and Cincinnati’s 38-30 upset of Iowa State.