The weekend of chaos that struck college football on October’s first Saturday sent the Top 25 rankings into a tailspin, but it could be a sign of things to come entering Week 6 and the rest of the 2015 season. It wasn’t a good week to be a Top 10 team, as the Ole Miss Rebels, Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame Fighting Irish all fell and saw their rankings plummet in the process. But there was no shortage of teams waiting to climb up into their spots, and certain ones took it upon themselves to prove their worth with big upsets. All of the madness jostled up the new Top 25 rankings, so take a look below at the Associated Press Top 25, Amway Coaches Poll and Bleacher Report Top 25 before they get another face-lift next Saturday: Last season, the opening weekend of October took what we thought we knew about the nation’s top teams and turned it on its head. The same thing couldn’t possibly happen again in 2015—could it? In fact, that is what happened. While the top two teams in last week’s AP and coaches polls—the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan State Spartans—were able to see off late tests from undermatched Big Ten opposition, the same couldn’t be said for a number of Top 10 squads. One of them was Ole Miss, who strolled into The Swamp and left licking its wounds. Two weeks after a convincing road win against the Alabama Crimson Tide, Ole Miss suffered a 38-10 defeat at the hands of the surprising Florida Gators. Don’t look now, but first-year head coach Jim McElwain has his Gators at 5-0 and peaking at the right time as they continue a brutal stretch of SEC play. …
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