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Georgia climbed to No 4 in the latest college football rankings Sunday, while Oklahoma returned to the top 10 and North Texas made The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 1959.
Mean Green is among three Group of Five teams in the Top 25, while Notre Dame remained No 9 after a 22-point win at Pittsburgh and Alabama dropped six spots to No 10 after the Sooners ended its eight-game win streak.
The top three - Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M - remain in place for the fifth straight week.
Georgia earned its highest ranking since the first week of September and Mississippi was back in the top five after spending three weeks there at midseason.
Oregon and Texas Tech were tied for No 6, and Oklahoma rose three spots to No 8 following its win at Alabama. The Sooners were last in the top 10, at No 6, the second week of October.
Ohio State, which rolled past UCLA to improve to 10-0 for the fourth time in seven seasons, received 57 of 66 first-place votes.
Georgia climbed to No 4 in the latest college football rankings after victory over Texas
Arch Manning and the Longhorns were beaten 35-10 by Georgia in Athens on Saturday
Alabama dropped six spots to No 10 after Oklahoma ended its eight-game win streak
Indiana, which beat Wisconsin to go 11-0 for the first time, got eight first-place votes. Texas A&M, whose comeback from a 27-point deficit to beat South Carolina was its largest ever, got one first-place vote, three less than last week.
Georgia’s 35-10 win over Texas was its sixth straight and second over a top-10 opponent. Mississippi, which lost at Georgia a month ago, defeated Florida and is more than 100 points behind the Bulldogs at No. 5.
The Sun Belt Conference’s James Madison blew out Appalachian State and moved up three spots to No. 21. North Texas is next at No. 22.
The Mean Green of the American Conference clobbered UAB 53-24 on the road and have matched their best start in program history.
The last time UNT was 9-1 was in 1959, when the team then known as the Eagles was ranked two straight weeks in November, reaching No. 16.
That team lost to New Mexico State in the Sun Bowl to finish 9-2. This year’s UNT team already is eligible for a second straight bowl game and is in the thick of the race for the Group of Five’s automatic CFP bid.
