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Miami is the No 1-ranked team in the country for the first time since 2002 after a remarkable shake-up in the Associated Press Top 25, that saw no team hold its position.
Elsewhere, No 2 BYU has its highest ranking since its 1984 national championship season and Notre Dame and Georgia stayed in the top five after both lost close games in a wild weekend of action.
The wackiest week of the college football season so far saw five of the top seven teams lose – a first in the AP poll's 90-year history. Miami and BYU were the biggest beneficiaries of the chaos and were joined by Ohio State in a tightly bunched top three.
The Hurricanes took over the top spot from Georgia, which lasted one week at No 1 after losing to Auburn at home. The Bulldogs were the second No 1 team in two weeks – Texas was the other – to lose to an unranked opponent.
Miami survived end-of-game drama to beat rival Florida State in double overtime and stay unbeaten. The Hurricanes' two-spot jump made them No. 1 for the first time since the 2002 season ended in the national championship game against Ohio State.
The Hurricanes received 40 of the 70 first-place votes from the media voting panel and were just 22 points ahead of BYU, which won a thriller at home over Notre Dame. The Cougars got 20 first-place votes and were 26 points ahead of Ohio State. The Buckeyes got nine first-place votes and were well ahead of No. 4 Notre Dame and No. 5 Georgia.
Miami is the first No. 1 team from the Atlantic Coast Conference team since Clemson in 2020. Other than Clemson, there had not been another ACC team ranked No. 1 since Florida State in 2014.
BYU went into its game against Notre Dame as a 10.5-point underdog and came out with a 28-24 win to go 6-0 for a third straight year. Since their championship season 42 years ago, the Cougars hadn't been higher than No. 4 in a poll or in the top five since 1996.
Every single spot in the Top 25 has a new team this week, but only two teams dropped out of the rankings.
A wholesale shakeup of the top 10 did not happen largely because Notre Dame, Georgia and No. 6 Indiana had built-up capital with their 6-0 starts, plus the losses by the Fighting Irish and Hoosiers were against top-10 opponents.
Indiana, which lost at home to Ohio State, was followed by Mississippi, Texas Tech, UCLA and Utah. Texas Tech received the remaining first-place vote.
Alabama's loss at Tennessee dropped the Crimson Tide seven spots to No. 13 and Texas plummeted 12 rungs to No. 19 after its home loss to Florida.