New College Football Top 25 Polls Released

UPDATE

The latest AP Poll has Kentucky up to No. 14 overall. If they can win their next two games, they may very well go into the matchup with Georgia as a top-10 team.

As for Kentucky’s past opponents, Florida is now up to No. 11 overall, while Mississippi State checks in at No. 22. Texas A&M is up to No. 17. You won’t find many schedules thus far that are more impressive than what Kentucky has gone through in six games.

College Football AP Top 25 Poll Week 8

1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Ohio State Buckeyes
3. Clemson Tigers
4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
5. LSU Tigers
6. Michigan Wolverines
7. Texas Longhorns
8. Georgia Bulldogs
9. Oklahoma Sooners
10. UCF Knights
11. Florida Gators
12. Oregon Ducks
13. West Virginia Mountaineers
14. Kentucky Wildcats
15. Washington Huskies
16. NC State Wolfpack
17. Texas A&M Aggies
18. Penn State Nittany Lions
19. Iowa Hawkeyes
20. Cincinnati Bearcats
21. South Florida Bulls
22. Mississippi State Bulldogs
23. Wisconsin Badgers
24. Michigan State Spartans
25. Washington State Cougars

Saturday was a bloodbath for top-25 teams.

From the noon games all the way into the 10:30 slate, we saw top-25 team after top-25 team go down to unranked teams, including Penn State, Auburn, Colorado and Miami.

That helped the Kentucky Wildcats this week, as they remain in the top 20 after enjoying their bye week. They actually climbed to No. 17 in the latest Coaches Poll.

College Football Coaches Top 25 Poll Week 8

1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Ohio State Buckeyes
3. Clemson Tigers
4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
5. LSU Tigers
6. Georgia Bulldogs
7. Michigan Wolverines
8. Texas Longhorns
9. UCF Knights
10. Oklahoma Sooners
11. Oregon Ducks
12. Florida Gators
13. West Virginia Mountaineers
14. Washington Huskies
15. NC State Wolfpack
16. Penn State Nittany Lions
17. Kentucky Wildcats
18. Texas A&M Aggies
19. Wisconsin Badgers
20. South Florida Bulls
21. Cincinnati Bearcats
22. Iowa Hawkeyes
23. Washington State Cougars
24. Stanford Cardinal
25. Colorado Buffaloes

The Massey and Sagarin rankings have Kentucky checking in at 10 and 20 respectively, while S&P has the Wildcats down at No. 21.

Over at CBS Sports, Kentucky checked in at No. 14 in Chip Patterson’s latest top 25 ranking.