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For the first time since the final 2000 poll, a non-Pac-10 team is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today/NFCA Top 25 Poll. Michigan won its 27th consecutive game and claimed the title at the KIA Klassic to jump four spots to the top ranking. 

It is the first time that a Big Ten school has been ranked No. 1, and the Wolverines highest ranking since May 6, 1998 when they were second. Michigan becomes only the seventh team (Arizona, California, Fresno State, Oklahoma, UCLA, Wahington) to be ranked No. 1 since the poll's inception in 1995. 

Arizona received nine first place votes this week, and is just three points behind Michigan in the poll. California received a first-place votes and stands at No. 3. 

Tennessee, off to its best start in school history, moved up two spots to No. 4. Stanford dropped to fifth while Texas made the week's biggest jump, moving up five spots to No. 6 after downing both Arizona and UCLA. 

Oklahoma and UCLA share the seventh spot. For the Bruins, it is the lowest ranking since they were unranked at the end of the 1998 season. 

Baylor moved up one spot to ninth, and Alabama rounds out the top ten. Louisiana-Lafayette suffered a 1-3 performance at the KIA Klassic, falling four spots to No. 11. 

Texas A&M went 5-0 last week to improve to 28-2, and remained 12th in this week's poll. The Aggies are followed by Georgia, Missouri and Florida. 

Pac-10 rivals Oregon State and Washington share the No. 16 spot, with Nebraska, Arizona State and Northwestern rounding out the top 20. 

The last five ranked teams are Georgia Tech, LSU, Fresno State, Florida State and Auburn.