After the team's impressive win over the Illinois Fighting Illini, the Alabama Crimson Tide are back on the move in the latest college basketball AP Poll Top 25. However, it might not have been in the direction that you might've thought,

Following upset losses to unranked opponents, Alabama and Mississippi both fell out of the top 10 in the AP Top 25 poll when the latest rankings were released on Sunday.

Alabama football’s College Football Playoff dreams were likely crushed on Saturday, when it lost 24-3 at Oklahoma for its third defeat of the season. On Sunday, the latest coaches top 25 poll update added insult to injury.

The Crimson Tide are also the second-highest ranked SEC team in the latest AP Poll, trailing only the No. 3 ranked Texas Longhorns. Texas sits behind only the Oregon Ducks and Ohio State Buckeyes, which are at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

A pair of top-10 teams from the SEC lost to unranked teams on Saturday, part of a day of upsets up and down the AP Top 25 poll that reshaped the new rankings Sunday.

College football rankings The college football world took another expected turn over the weekend, with seven more ranked teams losing, which brings the two-week total to 14. At the forefront, the Alabama Crimson Tide's shocking upset to an unranked Oklahoma Sooners team created some of the biggest headlines.

It did not include Alabama or Mississippi of the SEC, both of which suffered their third losses of the season last week. That helped place SMU in the ninth spot, joining No. 6 Miami to give the Atlantic Coast Conference two teams in the 12-team bracket.

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