Top 25

It’s been a wild college football season so far, so it’s hard to be sure whether the new Top 25 rankings will hold for long. But they’ve taken the wind out of Texas’ sails, plunging the Longhorns from No. 7 to No. 19 in the new AP poll, and 16 in the new USA Today coaches’ poll.

Nebraska (25 in AP and 23 in USAT) looks to be the last ranked team Texas will play this season, after almost certainly losing to No. 10 Oklahoma this Saturday. So even if they beat Nebraska, it won’t raise their ranking much, assuming they’re still ranked after Oklahoma. I expect they won’t be.