Ohio State, Miami and Clemson fell in the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll on Sunday after losing during a wild weekend, while eight of the top 10 teams moved one spot behind No. 1 Oregon .

The Ducks held the top spot for the seventh straight week.

The shakeup creates two top-five matchups in the conference championship games, which are scheduled for Saturday, a day before the College Football Playoff is announced. Oregon, the only undefeated team in the country, will face No. 3 Penn State in Big Ten play in Indianapolis. No. 2 Texas will face No. 5 Georgia in Southeastern Conference play in Atlanta, a rematch of their Top 5 meeting in October that the Bulldogs won.

No. 4 Notre Dame, 11-1 and winner of 10 straight games, won’t play again until the College Football Playoff.

Ohio State, which lost to Michigan for the fourth straight year and was eliminated from the Big Ten title game, fell five spots to No. 7 behind Tennessee.

SMU is No. 8, followed by Indiana and Boise State. The Broncos are in the top 10 for the first time since 2011 and are the top-ranked team in Group 5, two spots ahead of No. 12 Arizona State, the top-ranked Big 12 team.

Should the Broncos win the Mountain West title and be one of the four top-ranked conference champions in the final CFP rankings, they would receive a bye to the quarterfinals.

Miami’s loss at Syracuse cost the Hurricanes a berth in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game – and possibly the CFP as well – and dropped them six spots to No. 14. Clemson, which plays SMU in ACC play, lost at South Carolina and fell six spots to No. 18.

South Carolina has won six straight — four against ranked opponents — and earned a three-tier climb to No. 13. Ole Miss remained at No. 15, followed by Iowa State and BYU.

POLL POINTS

Ohio State University’s 13-10 loss to Michigan was the fifth loss by a top-five team this season against an unranked opponent, its worst loss since the fifth loss in 2017.

Miami’s 42-38 loss to Syracuse was the 12th by a top-10 team against an unranked opponent, its most since 2021, when there were 12 such losses.

It has been 10 years since South Carolina was ranked higher than in-state rival Clemson. In 2014, the Gamecocks were ranked 13th after a 3-1 start and a 7-6 record and were unranked in Steve Spurrier’s last full season as coach.

Notre Dame has its highest ranking since No. 4 on December 22, 2020.

WHO’S IN; WHO’S OUT

No. 23 Syracuse enters the Top 25 for the first time since Oct. 30, 2022, after winning nine games for the first time since 2018 under first-year coach Fran Brown. The win over Miami was the first against a top-10 opponent since 2017.

No. 25 Memphis, last ranked in October 2020, edged out Tulane as a double-digit underdog on the road and has rattled off 10 wins for the second straight year.

Tulane, playing at No. 24 Army in the American Athletic Conference title game, fell from No. 18 in the rankings.

Texas A&M, ranked No. 20 last week, bounced back after losing to Texas at home and dropping its last three SEC games.

Conference call

SEC: 7 (No. 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 15, 22).

Big Ten: 5 (No. 1, 3, 7, 8, 21).

ACC: 4 (No. 8, 14, 18, 23).

Big 12: 4 (No. 12, 16, 17, 20).

AAC: 2 (No. 24, 25).

Mountain West: 2 (No. 10, 19).

Independent: 1 (No. 4).

RANKING VS. RANKING

No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 3 Penn State in Indianapolis: For the Big Ten Championship.

No. 2 Texas vs. No. 5 Georgia in Atlanta: For the Southeastern Conference championship.

No. 8 SMU vs. No. 18 Clemson in Charlotte, North Carolina: For the Atlantic Coast Conference championship.

No. 10 Boise State vs. No. 19 UNLV in Boise, Idaho: For the Mountain West Championship.

No. 12 Arizona State vs. No. 16 Iowa State in Arlington, Texas: For the Big 12 Championship.