AP Top 25

The firings have begun. That's what happens when a preseason top-10 team finds itself out of the AP Top 25 at the end of September. LSU took the first opportunity to do what it wanted to do — and probably should have done — last season andfired coach Les Miles on Sunday ...

The top seven spots in the latest AP poll remain unchanged after week four of the 2016 college football season. Alabama received 50 first-place votes to maintain its position at the top of the poll. The Crimson Tide was followed by Ohio State, Louisville, and Michigan...

When Alabama trailed by 21 on Saturday it looked as if college football could be heading for a total reset weekend, when poll voters just trash the whole thing and start from scratch. Not quite. The Crimson Tide rallied and in the end it was only Louisville that truly entered the national title conversation...

Associated Press poll voters can seem a little cruel at times. After being given a raw deal by game officials on Saturday in a loss to Central Michigan, Oklahoma State fell out of the AP Top 25 on Sunday. The Cowboys controversy was one of the few big developments from a college football weekend that was entertaining if not particularly impactful...

The Southeastern Conference placed eight teams in the latest AP Top 25, but only Alabama is ranked higher than 15th.

Texas is ranked for the first time under coach Charlie Strong, coming in at No. 11 in the latest Associated Press college football rankings after a rousing opening victory against Notre Dame. The last time the Longhorns were ranked was November 2013, Mack Brown's last as coach...

Another wild week in college football shook up much of the top 10, but the first three teams maintained their spots in the latest AP Top 25. Clemson, Ohio State, and Alabama held down spots 1-3, while the Crimson Tide added two first place votes after its win over Mississippi State...

It only took one Saturday in November to get a major shakeup to the rankings. Thanks to a couple of upsets and two statement wins, the AP Top 25 has a different look heading into week 11.

We'll know whether Alabama will stay in the College Football Playoff hunt for another week after Saturday's game, but one voter still has the Crimson Tide as his number one team in the country. For the second straight week, Alabama received one first-place vote in the AP Top 25 and remained at 7th in the poll...

After a crazy couple of weeks in college football, the schedule - on paper - takes a bit of a break this weekend. None of the top 10 teams in the AP poll will play a ranked opponent in week 8, although there are some games that could potentially shake up the standings...