Oklahoma jumped two spots from 10th to eighth while South Carolina fell eight spots to 17th and West Virginia dropped to 25th in the Week 9 AP Poll.
Florida defeated South Carolina, 44-11, on Saturday which resulted in them getting a single first place vote but they remain in third behind Oregon and Alabama in the poll. The top six teams from Week 8 all maintained their positions as Alabama remained in the top spot and LSU is the highest-ranked one-loss team at sixth.
Alabama remained in the top spot of the poll with a 44-13 win on the road versus Tennessee on Saturday. The Crimson Tide will host No. 13 Mississippi State and No. 6 LSU in the next two weeks.
No. 5 Notre Dame will travel to play No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 3 Florida will host No. 12 Georgia this Saturday in games that will have strong implications for next week's polls.
Here's this week's entire AP Top 25 poll:
| Rank | Team | Votes |
| 1 | Alabama | 1,499 |
| 2 | Oregon | 1,424 |
| 3 | Florida | 1,380 |
| 4 | Kansas State | 1,333 |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 1,241 |
| 6 | LSU | 1,172 |
| 7 | Oregon State | 1,106 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 1,065 |
| 9 | Ohio State | 1,028 |
| 10 | USC | 944 |
| 11 | Florida State | 872 |
| 12 | Georgia | 745 |
| 13 | Mississippi State | 739 |
| 14 | Clemson | 713 |
| 15 | Texas Tech | 653 |
| 16 | Louisville | 620 |
| 17 | South Carolina | 591 |
| 18 | Rutgers | 539 |
| 19 | Stanford | 421 |
| 20 | Michigan | 300 |
| 21 | Boise State | 258 |
| 22 | Texas A&M | 252 |
| 23 | Ohio | 181 |
| 24 | Louisiana Tech | 106 |
| 25 | West Virginia | 76 |