College football has a new No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 poll, as Texas jumped past Georgia for the top spot on Sunday. The move comes after the Longhorns demolished UTSA 56-7 and the Bulldogs barely escaped Kentucky 13-12.
Texas made an early-season statement last week with its blowout win at Michigan, and now it’s No. 1 for the first time since 2008. The Longhorns picked up an easy win against the Roadrunners, a game in which quarterback Quinn Ewers was injured with a strained oblique and replaced by Arch Manning. Texas received 35 first-place votes to No. 2 Georgia’s 23 and No. 3 Ohio State’s five.
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