The Big 12 has five teams in the Top 25 for the first time this season, Vanderbilt earned its highest ranking in 88 years and LSU dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after its third loss in four games.

The top six were unchanged, with Ohio State holding the No. 1 spot for a ninth straight week followed by Indiana, Texas A&M, Alabama, Georgia and Oregon.

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The idle Buckeyes received 53 first-place votes and the Hoosiers got 11 , six more than last week. Texas A&M was No. 1 on one ballot.

No. 7 Mississippi and No. 8 Georgia Tech swapped spots, as did No. 9 Vanderbilt and Miami, which is tied at No. 10 with BYU.

The Big 12’s five ranked teams are B

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