CBS Sports shakes up Top 25 after turbulent Week 2 of college football

Week 2 of college football didn’t disappoint. Some close games and a big week for one G5 conference led to a shakeup in the CBS Sports Top 25 — including a new No. 1.

Alabama fell out of the top spot after a rough showing against Texas despite a 20-19 win at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium. The Crimson Tide totaled more penalties than any other game in the Nick Saban Era and, as a result, dropped to No. 2 behind reigning national champion Georgia in the latest rankings.

BYU also notably moved into the top 10 following its big win over Baylor late Saturday night, jumping 21 spots from last week’s rankings. Kentucky was another big mover, jumping 23 spots to No. 10 after defeating Florida at The Swamp behind a big showing from Will Levis. Appalachian State, one of three Sun Belt teams to win this week, moved into the rankings after defeating Texas A&M.

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Here are CBS Sports’ full top 25 rankings.

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Ohio State
4. Michigan
5. Oklahoma
6. USC
7. Clemson
8. BYU
9. Arkansas
10. Kentucky
11. Oklahoma State
12. Tennessee
13. Miami
14. Michigan State
15. Penn State
16. NC State
17. Utah
18. Baylor
19. Ole Miss
20. Florida
21. Wake Forest
22. Texas
23. Mississippi State
24. Cincinnati
25. Appalachian State

CBS Sports’ top four teams lined up perfectly with the AP Top 25, in which Georgia received 53 of 60 first-place votes to leap-frog Alabama for the top spot. After the poll came out, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart addressed moving up to No. 1 — and said his team isn’t worrying about the rankings. That’s for later in the season.

“It’s never a big deal. It only matters at the end of the year,” Smart said. “I don’t know that we’ve spent many weeks outside of the Top-10 and it never mattered whether we were inside the Top-10 or outside the Top-10. It just is irrelevant.”