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Week 7 AP poll reaction: What's next for each Top 25 team
Georgia took 66 of a possible 70 first-place votes in the AP poll, while Oregon fell out entirely after its second loss; the voters have spoken, loudly.
Watch it as it aired: Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Kenji Moonfield on this story, from The Weekend Shift at 4:04 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are ESPN's, the jokes are ours.

From the show
- Hot Take or Not
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“Fans go from guaranteed champions to refunds in one afternoon.”Kenji Moonfield▶ Full · 0:53Georgia Takes No. 1 in AP Poll: Texas Fans Want Emotional RefundsHot Take or Not ·
At a glance
- First reported by ESPN: “Week 7 AP poll reaction: What's next for each Top 25 team”.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 4:04 PM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: AP.
- BBN covered this story before: Miami climbs to 1, BYU to 2 after chaotic week shakes up AP poll (October 18).
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What BBN said about it

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGeorgia is back at number one this afternoon, with sixty-six of a possible seventy first-place votes, the Big Lead says, after Texas lost by three to unranked Oklahoma.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTexas lost one game and went from first to seventh. How does a ranking fall six spots when nobody pushed it?

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, that's a family in crisis. Six spots!

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOregon lost a second game and fell out of the poll entirely, and Kentucky climbed eleven after beating LSU thirty-five to thirty-four in overtime on a two-point try.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOregon got deleted? There's no appeal button?

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorNone.

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnd in the pros, the Bears lead Atlanta thirty-one to twenty-three with five forty-one left in the fourth, and Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay are tied at sixteen with one fifty-five to go.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGeorgia got sixty-six votes out of seventy. Four people looked at all of that and picked someone else, and I want their names.
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