Could 2026 rival 2007? Chaos at the top has made this season’s title race unpredictable

The 2007 college football season is the gold standard for chaotic years in the sport, as a top-2 ranking in the AP poll became a curse rather than a reward.

A top-2-ranked team in the AP poll lost in five consecutive weeks to end the 2007 season, which remains the all-time record, and, overall, either No. 1 or No. 2 in the country lost an astounding 11 times over the course of the season.

The period of relative stability at the top of the college football world that followed that legendary 2007 campaign made many wonder if we'd ever see anything like it again. Well, 19 years later, we have our hands on another season where the only certainty seems to be chaos at the top.

October 2026 will go down as a historic one. The five losses by AP top-2 teams are tied for the most in a single month since November 2007 — October 2007 also saw four such losses — and it's also the first time since November 2007 that the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the AP poll finished the month with a losing record (4-5).

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