Following Week 8, three teams can make serious claims for the top spot in the nation, and there is a steep fall after Oregon, Alabama, and Florida State. Given their respective resumes, those three are interchangeable, but the rest of the nation saw a lot of change this week. Clemson, Louisville, UCLA, LSU, and Texas A&M fell out of title contention, and preseason SEC East darlings Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida now find themselves out of the Top 25.
1. Oregon 7-0
2. Alabama 7-0
3. Florida State 6-0
4. Ohio State 7-0
5. Baylor 6-0
6. Stanford 6-1
7. Miami 6-0
8. Missouri 7-0
9. Clemson 6-1
10. Texas Tech 7-0
11. Auburn 6-1
12. UCLA 5-1
13. Oklahoma 6-1
14. LSU 6-2
15. Virginia Tech 6-1
16. Texas A&M 5-2
17. UCF 5-1
18. Northern Illinois 7-0
19. Oklahoma State 5-1
20. Louisville 6-1
21. Wisconsin 5-2
22. Fresno State 6-0
23. Notre Dame 5-2
24. Nebraska 5-1
25. Arizona State 5-2