Skip to main content
Ole Miss

POLL POSITION: Ole Miss stays inside Top 5 after first bye week of the season

11by: Jake Thompson10/05/25JakeThompsonOn3
NCAA Football: Louisiana State at Mississippi
Sep 27, 2025; Oxford, Mississippi, USA; A Mississippi Rebels players gather for a a huddle during warm ups prior to the game against the LSU Tigers at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images

Week six brought the first open date of the year for Ole Miss after five straight games and it was a well-deserved rest. The bye also meant the Rebels could not do any damage to its first Top-5 ranking in a decade, either.

There was not a lot of chaos around college football on Saturday minus Penn State’s loss to then-winless UCLA and Texas’ loss at Florida in The Swamp. The Longhorns suffered a fate akin to what the Rebels experienced a year ago, seemingly putting their College Football Playoff hopes in danger the first week of October.

For Ole Miss those CFP hopes are alive and well, staying at No. 4 in both the Associated Press and Coaches Polls released on Sunday.

The Rebels (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) were once the again the highest-ranked SEC team for a second straight week, though Texas A&M made a move up a spot to No. 5. Oklahoma is No. 6 with Alabama (8) and Georgia (10) rounding out SEC teams in the Top 10.

There are a total of nine SEC teams in this week’s AP Top 25. Texas fell out of the poll after its loss to Florida, dropping from No. 9.

Below are the complete Top 25 rankings from the Associated Press and Coaches Polls.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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

COACHES POLL

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

You may also like