AP Top 25: Cincinnati up to No. 2; Purdue snaps poll drought

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By Ralph D. Russo | The Associated Press

Cincinnati moving backmost Jerome Ford (24) carries the shot arsenic helium breaks a tackle against UCF linebacker Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste, right, during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot game, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, successful Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster)

Cincinnati moved up to No. 2 down Georgia successful The Associated Press assemblage shot canvass Sunday, the archetypal clip a squad from extracurricular the accepted powerfulness conferences has been ranked that precocious since 2010.

The Bulldogs remained a unanimous No. 1 with 63 first-place votes successful the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank and the Bearcats inched up a spot, taking vantage of Iowa’s nonaccomplishment to Purdue connected Saturday.

The Hawkeyes dropped 9 places to No. 11 and the Boilermakers moved into the rankings astatine No. 25, snapping the longest existent AP canvass drought for a Power Five school. The Boilermakers were past ranked successful 2007.

Oklahoma is No. 3, followed by Alabama and Ohio State.

Unbeaten Cincinnati from the American Athletic Conference reached a caller champion ranking successful programme past and is the archetypal squad to scope No. 2 from extracurricular a Power Five oregon BCS league since TCU finished 2nd successful 2010, erstwhile it went undefeated arsenic a subordinate of the Mountain West.

Boise State, past a subordinate of the Western Athletic Conference, spent 3 weeks astatine No. 2 successful 2010.

Oklahoma State moved up to No. 8 aft beating Texas and is successful the apical 10 for the archetypal clip since aboriginal successful the 2020 season.

POLL POINTS

Seven ranked teams mislaid connected Saturday, including 5 to unranked teams, expanding the full connected the play to 47.

In each of the past 3 weeks, a top-three squad has mislaid to an unranked team, starting with Stanford implicit then-No. 3 Oregon connected Oct. 2.

Texas A&M knocked disconnected then-No. 1 Alabama past week earlier Iowa was upset astatine home.

IN

All those losses by ranked teams shook up the backmost fractional of the rankings and enactment 5 caller teams successful the canvass this week, including 1 that has ne'er been determination before.

— No. 19 Auburn (5-2) is backmost successful the rankings aft a road triumph against Arkansas.

— No. 20 Baylor (6-1) returned to the Top 25 with a convincing triumph against BYU.

— No. 23 Pittsburgh (6-1) is ranked for the archetypal clip this season. Quarterback Kenny Pickett and the Panthers thumped Virginia Tech connected Saturday. Pitt has been concisely ranked successful 4 of the past six seasons but ne'er higher than 21st.

— With Purdue (4-2) entering the rankings, Kansas takes implicit the apical spot connected the database of longest existent runs without being ranked among Power Five schools. The Jayhawks were past ranked successful October 2009. Up adjacent are Illinois, Rutgers, Oregon State and Vanderbilt.

— No. 24 Texas-San Antonio (7-0) is unbeaten and ranked for the archetypal clip successful the past of the program. The Roadrunners person lone been playing astatine the highest level of Division I shot since 2012. They are the archetypal Conference USA squad to marque the Top 25 this season.

OUT

Florida fell retired of the rankings for the archetypal clip this play aft the Gators were beaten by LSU connected Saturday.

That leaves the state of Florida with nary ranked teams, a uncommon occurrence successful caller canvass history. The past clip it happened was 2011, erstwhile six times the Sunshine State did not person a azygous ranked team.

— Arkansas’ three-game losing streak has dropped the Razorbacks from the rankings aft a five-week run.

— Arizona State is retired again aft losing to Utah.

— BYU mislaid for the 2nd consecutive week and is unranked for the archetypal clip since past month.

— Texas is backmost … to beryllium being unranked aft the Longhorns blew a double-digit, second-half pb for the 2nd consecutive week.