Texas has now set a modern record for the quickest team to start the season ranked no. 1 overall and then drop out of the AP rankings completely.
The horns have now set the record for going from preseason #1 to unranked Previous was USC in 2012Took USC 12 weeksTook texas 5
— Slander University (@TheSlanderU) October 5, 2025
The AP Poll began ranking 25 teams in 1989, meaning that no team in 35 years has ever done this. As a matter of fact, they were nearly twice as quick to do so as their nearest competitor: USC back in 2012 dropped out of the polls on November 18, the 12th poll of the season, and Texas did so in the 6th poll of the season.
Given how SEC fans have been tired of the Longhorns since, oh, only about two months into their tenure as a football member of the conference, this has been quite the spectacle across the conference. You’d have to scramble hard to find a single non-Longhorn source that has Texas ranked in the top ten of the conference, as the mask is beginning to fully come off of this mediocre-at-best program.
SEC fans loving Texas’s record-setting fall from grace
The reactions to Texas’s record-fast slide from the top spot to out of the polls were positively gleeful:…