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POLL POSITION: Ole Miss stays inside Top 10 after suffering first loss of the season

11by: Jake Thompson11 hours agoJakeThompsonOn3
NCAA Football: Mississippi at Georgia
Oct 18, 2025; Athens, Georgia, USA; Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin reacts during the second half of the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images

Ole Miss is no longer among the ranks of the unbeaten after Georgia handed them a 43-35 loss in Athens on Saturday.

The Rebels (6-1) also lost ground in the Southeastern Conference race, falling from top the standings to tie third place with a 3-1 record but only a game back of leading Texas A&M and Alabama.

With its first blemish on the season Ole Miss did not take too much of a hit in this week’s Top 25 rankings. It fell three spots to No. 8 in both the Associated Press and Coaches Polls. Georgia moved up inside the Top 5 after the win.

Next Saturday in Norman misses out on a second Top 10 matchup for the Rebels with Oklahoma sitting at No. 13 in the AP Poll after its win at South Carolina. Ole Miss and the Sooners kickoff at 11 a.m. CT on ABC next Saturday.

“It does feel like the NFL. Like, here comes another really hard place to play against the top defense in the country,” Lane Kiffin said after Saturday’s game of Oklahoma. “That’s going to be a really big test, but we got a lot of things to fix.”

SEC Network announced its SEC Nation show will air from Norman Saturday morning.

ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL

  1. Ohio State (7-0)
  2. Indiana (7-0)
  3. Texas A&M (7-0)
  4. Alabama (6-1)
  5. Georgia (6-1)
  6. Oregon (6-1)
  7. Georgia Tech (7-0)
  8. Ole Miss (6-1)
  9. Miami (5-1)
  10. Vanderbilt (6-1)
  11. BYU (7-0)
  12. Notre Dame (5-2)
  13. Oklahoma (6-1)
  14. Texas Tech (6-1)
  15. Missouri (6-1)
  16. Virginia (6-1)
  17. Tennessee (5-2)
  18. South Florida (6-1)
  19. Louisville (5-1)
  20. LSU (5-2)
  21. Cincinnati (6-1)
  22. Texas (5-2)
  23. Illinois (5-2)
  24. Arizona State (5-2)
  25. Michigan (5-2)

COACHES POLL

  1. Ohio State
  2. Indiana
  3. Texas A&M
  4. Alabama
  5. Georgia
  6. Oregon
  7. Georgia Tech
  8. Ole Miss
  9. Miami
  10. BYU
  11. Oklahoma
  12. Vanderbilt
  13. Notre Dame
  14. Missouri
  15. Texas Tech
  16. Virginia
  17. Tennessee
  18. Texas
  19. LSU
  20. South Florida
  21. Cincinnati
  22. Louisville
  23. Illinois
  24. Michigan
  25. Arizona State

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