College football Power Rankings - Wild Week 7 changed top 25 - ESPN

Call it Shakeup Saturday or a pithy phrase of your choosing, but Week 7 reordered the college football world. Five of the seven teams in the AP Top 25 poll went down — the most among that cohort in AP poll history (1936).

Where to begin? Tommy Carr, who began the day as Michigan's backup quarterback, helped the Wolverines to a season-saving win against Penn State, and his older brother, CJ Carr, couldn't get it done for Notre Dame at BYU. Georgia lost on a walk-off field goal to Auburn just like Texas had the week before, as the No. 1 teams fell on the final play in consecutive weekends for the first time in the history of the poll.

Ohio State lost starting quarterback Julian Sayin to injury but handed Indiana its first loss since the 2024 playoff, as Hoosiers wide receiver Nick Marsh stepped out of bounds on a potential winning touchdown catch.

Texas dropped consecutive games and must «evaluate everything,» coach Steve Sarkisian said. Alabama lost back-to-back contests for the first time since 2007, which was former coach Nick Saban's first season in Tuscaloosa.

First-year coaches Bob Chesney (UCLA) and Will Stein (Kentucky) continued their spectacular debuts, and Florida's Jon Sumrall, whose team was blown out in consecutive weeks, walked out of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium wearing a black cowboy hat.

Week 7 was great for the Big 12, despite its timing error on what looked like the final play of Notre Dame-BYU, as the league is well-positioned for multiple playoff entries for the first time. The day ended appropriately with Oregon quarterback Dylan Raiola coming off the bench to rally his current team past his old one (Nebraska), keeping the Ducks faint CFP hopes alight.

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