ESPN updates FPI rankings after 8 Top 25 teams fall on Saturday

It was another chaotic weekend in college football. For a second-straight Saturday, upsets were the theme of the sport.

Eight ranked teams fell on the first Saturday of October, with the most notable being No. 9 Texas dropping a 33-31 contest to TCU. Other teams upset this weekend included:

• Tulsa def. No. 11 UCF — 34-26
• Arkansas def. No. 16 Mississippi State — 21-14
• Iowa State def. No. 18 Oklahoma — 37-30
• NC State def. No. 24 Pitt — 30-29
• SMU def. No. 25 Memphis — 30-27

Two other ranked teams lost this weekend, but all fell to higher ranked opponents: No. 4 Georgia def. No. 7 Auburn and No. 2 Alabama def. No. 13 Texas A&M.

With more chaos, there’s been some serious changes to ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) rankings. Six B1G teams are still in the Top 25:

• No. 1: Ohio State
• No. 5: Wisconsin
• No. 7: Penn State
• No. 18: Michigan
• No. 22: Indiana
• No. 24 Northwestern

Here’s where the other eight B1G teams stand:

• No. 26: Iowa
• No. 29: Minnesota
• No. 37: Nebraska
• No. 49: Purdue
• No. 60: Illinois
• No. 73: Michigan State
• No. 80: Rutgers
• No. 84: Maryland

Dustin Schutte

Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB