New College Football Top 25 Polls include Kentucky Wildcats

A wild Week 4 of college football has led to some big shakeups in the latest top 25 Polls.

The top 10 teams managed to avoid any major upsets this week, though Oklahoma did almost lose at home to Army before prevailing in overtime.

The real action was in the 13-25 range, where seven teams went down, including Virginia Tech’s shocking loss to Old Dominion. Oklahoma State lost to unranked Texas Tech, while TCU was dismantled by Texas.

Texas A&M got crushed by Alabama, and Oregon lost a heartbreaker to Stanford.

Oh, and did we mention the Kentucky Wildcats beat 14th-ranked Mississippi State? That, combined with those other aforementioned losses, allowed the Wildcats to surge into the polls this week.

The latest Coaches Top 25 Poll has Kentucky checking in at No. 17 overall. It’s the first time in the Mark Stoops era they’ve made it into the top 25, and it wa well deserved after Kentucky crushed Mississippi State.

College Football Coaches Top 25 Poll Week 5

1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Clemson Tigers
3. Georgia Bulldogs
4. Ohio State Buckeyes
5. Oklahoma Sooners
6. LSU Tigers
7. Stanford Cardinal
8. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
9. Penn State Nittany Lions
10. Auburn Tigers
11. Washington Huskies
12. West Virginia Mountaineers
13. Wisconsin Badgers
14. UCF Knights
15. Michigan Wolverines
16. Miami-Florida Hurricanes
17. Kentucky Wildcats
18. Michigan State Spartans
19. Mississippi St. Bulldogs
20. Oregon Ducks
21. Oklahoma State Cowboys
22. Texas Longhorns
23. Duke Blue Devils
24. Virginia Tech Hokies
25. Boise State Broncos

The latest AP Top 25 Poll also has the Wildcats checking in at the No. 17 spot. It’s their first ranking in either poll since the 2007 season.

College Football AP Top 25 Poll Week 5

1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Georgia Bulldogs
3. Clemson Tigers
4. Ohio State Buckeyes
5. LSU Tigers
6. Oklahoma Sooners
7. Stanford Cardinal
8. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
9. Penn State Nittany Lions
10. Auburn Tigers
11. Washington Huskies
12. West Virginia Mountaineers
13. UCF Knights
14. Michigan Wolverines
15. Wisconsin Badgers
16. Miami-Florida Hurricanes
17. Kentucky Wildcats
18. Texas Longhorns
19. Oregon Ducks
20. BYU Cougars
21. Michigan State Spartans
22. Duke Blue Devils
23. Mississippi St. Bulldogs
24. California Golden Bears
25. Texas Tech Red Raiders

Over at CBS, Kentucky checked in at No. 17 in Chip Patterson’s latest top 25.

17. Kentucky (NR): Undefeated and 2-0 in SEC play for the first time in decades, Kentucky is set to make its first showing in the AP Top 25 poll since 2007.

How sweet it is. And if Kentucky can beat South Carolina next week, they’ll likely be even higher next week.