Four top-10 teams losing to unranked opponents in one week tends to shake things up a bit.
For starters, Alabama is now unanimously viewed as the No. 1 team in the country. The Tide earned every available No. 1 vote in Sunday’s Coaches’ Poll and the companion AP poll, released Sunday. Penn State moved up to No. 2, the program’s highest ranking since 1999. Georgia followed behind at No. 3, while TCU and Wisconsin filled out the top five.
A fifth straight blowout was enough for Ohio State to jump three spots forward to No. 6, putting the Buckeyes at the front of the 1-loss train, ahead of Clemson.
LSU re-joined the poll after knocking off then-No. 10 Auburn, but remained three spots ahead of the blue-and-orange Tigers. West Virginia bumped then-No. 24 Texas Tech out and moved in at No. 23, while Memphis made its 2017 debut, replacing No. 25 Navy.
And, cementing the AP’s status as the greater of the sport’s two opinion polls, voters moved Michigan State ahead of Michigan a week after the Spartans’ win in the Big House.
The full poll:
1. Alabama -- 1,525 total points (61 first-place votes)
2. Penn State -- 1,432
3. Georgia -- 1,417
4. TCU -- 1,322
5. Wisconsin -- 1,241
6. Ohio State -- 1,184
7. Clemson -- 1,117
8. Miami -- 1,109
9. Oklahoma -- 1,066
10. Oklahoma State -- 900
11. USC -- 886
12. Washington -- 811
13. Notre Dame -- 798
14. Virginia Tech -- 727
15. Washington State -- 578
16. South Florida -- 573
16. NC State -- 573
18. Michigan State -- 563
19. Michigan -- 558
20. Central Florida -- 387
21. Auburn -- 303
22. Stanford -- 274
23. West Virginia -- 157
24. LSU -- 108
25. Memphis -- 62