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The AP Top 25 College Football Poll is about to finally be rendered utterly useless when the College Football Playoff rankings show kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 4, but even with its final breaths of relevance it still found a way to be embarrassingly inaccurate.

Elsewhere in Big Ten play, Washington upended No. 23 Illinois 42-25 in Seattle, improving the Huskies to 6-2 on the season and 3-2 in conference play. Sticking in the Pacific Northwest, No. 6 Oregon — playing much of the second half without quarterback Dante Moore — ground out a 21-7 win over visiting Wisconsin.

Vanderbilt earned its highest AP Top 25 ranking in 88 years, while LSU dropped out of the poll following its third loss in four games.

The top four seeds remain unchanged on the College Football Playoff bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday, but three of the four first-round matchups would change and Memphis returned as the Group of Five representative.

Texas A&M may have given LSU all they needed to fire Brian Kelly, Alabama fans were hanging onto the edge of their seats against South Carolina, Oregon was some

Week 9 of college football has mainly seen the expected outcomes. Georgia Tech, Alabama, Vanderbilt and Indiana secured victories, contrasting with Week 8, when four top 10 teams lost.