UNDATED (AP) — Florida starts the men's college basketball season ranked No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25. Coach Todd Golden says the ranking is expected, as the team aims for another national championship. Duke and Illinois are next while UConn and Arizona round out the top five. Michigan State, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Houston finish out the top 10,
UNDATED (AP) — Miami is now No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 2002. No. 2 BYU has reached its highest ranking since its 1984 national championship season. Notre Dame and Georgia remain in the top five despite close losses. This week, five of the top seven teams lost, marking a first in the AP poll's 90-year history. Miami and BYU benefited most from the chaos, joined by Ohio State in a tightly packed top three.
UNDATED (AP) — Just when you thought the SEC and Big Ten were the biggest and baddest conferences in the land, along comes the Big 12 with three teams in the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 and the ACC with the No. 1 team. Five of the top seven teams lost Saturday. That's most on one day in a regular season since the AP rankings started 90 years ago. No. 2 BYU, No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 10 Utah landed in the top 10 Sunday. That's largely the result of Georgia, Alabama and Texas losing.
UNDATED (AP) — BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier is The Associated Press national college football player of the week. He had a hand in all four of his team’s touchdowns in a 28-24 win over Notre Dame. He had TD runs of 5 and 1 yard, caught a throwback pass for a 15-yard TD and threw 6 yards to Walker Lyons for the go-ahead score with 1:47 left. Auburn quarterback Byrum Brown was runner-up for the award after rushing for 115 yards and a TD and passing for 150 yards and a score in the Tigers’ 27-24 upset of then-No. 1 Georgia.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has added All-Big Ten forward Trey Kaufman-Renn, who played four seasons at Purdue before being picked by Minnesota in the second round of the NBA draft. Jayhawks coach Bill Self announced his transfer Monday, just before the men's preseason AP Top 25 poll was released. The 24-year-old Kaufman-Renn has enrolled at Kansas and began practicing with the team on Sunday. He intends to play another season of college basketball after the NCAA's rule change allowing student-athletes to play five seasons. Kaufman-Renn joins a lineup with veterans Melvin Council Jr. and Tre White alongside top recruit Tyran Stokes.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Notre Dame might have deserved one more play at the end of its game at BYU. Florida State was furious over how referees saw its two Hail Mary completions for would-have-been touchdowns in double overtime against Miami. And once again, end-of-game officiating was under fire. Dramatic — and sometimes controversial — endings were the story of a wild college football Saturday, with late-game calls deciding some outcomes and potentially even having an effect on how the College Football Playoff shapes up a couple months from now.
UNDATED (AP) — Miami and BYU would hold down the top two seeds on the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25 and UCLA would make its first-ever appearance in the field. The projected bracket was shuffled with Georgia’s loss to Auburn bumping the Bulldogs out of a top-four seed and the first-round bye that goes with it. First-round matchups would be No. 9 seed UCLA at No. 8 seed Texas Tech, No. 12 seed Boise State at No. 5 seed Georgia, No. 10 seed Utah at No. 7 Mississippi and No. 11 seed Tennessee at No. 6 Indiana.
UNDATED (AP) — College football has never experienced a Saturday like this. Five of the top seven teams in the AP Top 25 lost on the same day in the regular season for the first time in history. The last time anything even remotely close happened was on Jan. 2, 1989, according to Sportradar. Shakeup Saturday was driven by the Southeastern Conference, with No. 1 Georgia, No. 6 Alabama and No. 7 Texas going down as touchdown or more favorites. No. 2 Notre Dame (at No. 8 BYU) and fifth-ranked Indiana (against No. 4 Ohio State) also lost. The chaos cleared a path for No. 3 Miami to take over the top poll spot.
