Week 8 is bringing a full-on shakeup to the college football Top 25.
We’re seven weeks into the 2026 season, and Saturday delivered the kind of chaos that can reset the entire pecking order. A new No. 1 is coming, four more teams in the top 10 took losses, and half of the top 10 was knocked down in Week 7.
The biggest jolt came from Athens, where No. 1 Georgia fell at home to unranked Auburn just a week after going to Tuscaloosa and beating Alabama.
That alone would’ve made for a wild Saturday, but it wasn’t the only stunner near the top. No.
7 Texas also coughed up a big lead and lost to unranked Florida in Austin, adding another major dent to the upper tier of the rankings.
The weekend was packed with ranked-on-ranked drama. No.
2 Notre Dame traveled to No. 8 BYU, No.
6 Alabama went to No. 14 Tennessee, No.
9 Ole Miss faced No. 13 Missouri, and No.
5 Indiana met No. 4 Ohio State in the matchup that had plenty of eyes on it.
It was a loaded slate, and the games kept rolling late into the night.
Tennessee’s win over Alabama stood out as another major result, while Ole Miss handled Missouri in convincing fashion. The Ohio State-Indiana game also produced a painful ending for Nick Marsh, even worse than the excruciating last-second loss his former team took against No. 25 Northwestern.
Then came one of the night’s best finishes in Provo. Notre Dame mounted a second-half comeback and had BYU on the ropes, but the Cougars answered with a go-ahead touchdown with just under two minutes left. Notre Dame still had a chance, driving to a first-and-goal from the eight with four seconds remaining, but BYU held firm and took another signature win for Kalani Sitake.
All of that sets up a reshuffled ranking picture for Week 8, with a new No. 1 and a Big Ten team back on top.
Ohio State (4)
BYU (8)
Miami (3)
Tennessee (14)
Ole Miss (9)
Texas Tech (10)
Notre Dame (2)
Georgia (1)
Indiana (5)
Kentucky (15)
Utah (11)
UCLA (12)
Alabama (6)
Iowa (17)
Houston (20)
USC (19)
LSU (22)
Florida (NR)
Texas (7)
SMU (24)
Wake Forest (21)
Missouri (13)
Boise State (23)
Northwestern (25)
Nebraska/Oregon (NR)
The most eye-catching swings are hard to miss: BYU climbing all the way to No. 2 from No. 8, Tennessee leaping 10 spots to No. 4, Kentucky vaulting into the top 10, and Texas sliding from No. 7 to just inside the top 20.
There’s also a new team set to enter the rankings behind Northwestern, with the winner of Oregon vs. Nebraska expected to land in the Top 25.
What a week.
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