With no game this weekend, it'd have taken something really weird for Ohio State to be knocked from its perch atop the AP Top 25 poll. Fortunately nothing really weird happened, right? Right. A number of ranked teams had scares, but no upsets in the Top 25 mean not much has changed in the AP rankings.
The Buckeyes are still number number one, although Baylor and Clemson each continued to dent the Ohio State cushion.
Like last week, Urban Meyer's team was joined in the Top 5 by the aforementioned Bears and Tigers, as well as LSU and TCU. The SEC, with Texas A&M rejoining the Top 25 has six teams in the latest rankings.
There are four Big Ten teams, three ACC teams (Duke fell out), three American and three Pac-12 teams in the poll.
Here are the full rankings:
| Rank | Team | 1st Votes | CHANGe | CONFERENCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OHIO STATE | 39 | BIG TEN | |
| 2 | BAYLOR | 6 | BIG 12 | |
| 3 | CLEMSON | 6 | ACC | |
| 4 | LOUISIANA STATE | 5 | SEC | |
| 5 | TEXAS CHRISTIAN | 4 | B1G 12 | |
| 6 | MICHIGAN STATE | BIG TEN | ||
| 7 | ALABAMA | SEC | ||
| 8 | NOTRE DAME | +1 | INDEPENDENT | |
| 9 | STANFORD | -1 | PAC-12 | |
| 10 | IOWA | BIG TEN | ||
| 11 | FLORIDA | SEC | ||
| 12 | OKLAHOMA STATE | BIG 12 | ||
| 13 | UTAH | PAC-12 | ||
| 14 | OKLAHOMA | BIG 12 | ||
| 15 | MEMPHIS | +1 | AMERICAN | |
| 16 | MICHIGAN | -1 | BIG TEN | |
| 17 | FLORIDA STATE | - | ACC | |
| 18 | HOUSTON | AMERICAN | ||
| 19 | MISSISSIPPI | SEC | ||
| 20 | TOLEDO | MAC | ||
| 21 | NORTH CAROLINA | +6 | ACC | |
| 22 | UCLA | +2 | PAC-12 | |
| 23 | TEMPLE | -2 | AMERICAN | |
| 24 | MISSISSIPPI STATE | +1 | SEC | |
| 25 | TEXAS A&M | +1 | SEC |
