Even in an underwhelming Saturday in College Football, there were still some upsets in Week 8, and it sets up a loaded Week 9
With the Missouri Tigers on their bye week and no ranked match ups in Week 8, Saturday was a pretty underwhelming slate in College Football, at least on paper. However, there were some upsets — as five ranked teams fell to unranked teams during the week.
The biggest upset was Illinois, who beat then No. 7 Penn State on the road in Happy Valley by the score of 20-18 in….whatever those nine overtimes were.
In the SEC, Ole Miss, Alabama, and Texas A&M were the only three ranked teams to play — with all three taking care of business. Six SEC teams are ranked in this week’s AP Top 25, and three come in ranked in the Top 10 as Ole Miss moved up to No. 10 after their 31-17 win over LSU.
Here is this week’s AP Top 25:
- Georgia (7-0)
- Cincinnati (7-0)
- Alabama (7-1)
- Oklahoma (8-0)
- Ohio State (6-1)
- Michigan (7-0)
- Oregon (6-1)
- Michigan State (7-0)
- Iowa (6-1)
- Ole Miss (6-1)
- Notre Dame (6-1)
- Kentucky (6-1)
- Wake Forest (7-0)
- Texas A&M (6-2)
- Oklahoma State (6-1)
- Baylor (6-1)
- Pittsburgh (6-1)
- Auburn (5-2)
- SMU (7-0)
- Penn State (5-2)
- San Diego State (7-0)
- Iowa State (5-2)
- UTSA (8-0)
- Costal Carolina (6-1)
- BYU (6-2)
In: BYU, Iowa State
Out: NC State
Others receiving votes: Arkansas 36, Louisiana-Lafayette 32, North Carolina State 28, Houston 12, Virginia 9, Oregon State 7, Arizona State 7, Texas 6, Appalachian State 5, Florida 3, Minnesota 1, UCLA 1
Conference Breakdown
SEC: 6
Big Ten: 6
Big 12: 4
ACC: 2
PAC-12: 1
Independents: 2 (BYU, Notre Dame)
Mountain West: 1 (San Diego State)
Conference USA: 1 (UTSA)
Sun Belt: 1 (Coastal Carolina)
AP Top 25 match ups for Week 9:
No. 6 Michigan at No. 8 Michigan State — 11:00 a.m. CST (FOX)
No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 18 Auburn — 6:00 p.m. CST (ESPN)
No. 20 Penn State at No. 5 Ohio State — 6:30 p.m. CST (ABC)
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