SEC's crazy, history-making Week 7 weekend is the latest example of college football's new era

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This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Not one team ranked in the AP Top 25 poll in week six stayed in the same position in the week seven poll.Texas dropped 12 spots.

Florida gained 12.Multiple other schools moved up or down at least six positions, with Missouri falling a whopping nine places after their blowout loss to Ole Miss.But no stat better exemplifies the chaos of week seven better than this one.

Tom Fornelli from CBS Sports posted on X this week that, "The SEC is the first conference this century to have 5 AP Top-20 teams lose in the same week."WEEK 7 AP TOP 25 POLL FEATURES A COMPLETE SHUFFLE AFTER CHAOTIC WEEKEND, WITH MIAMI TAKING OVER THE TOP SPOTGeorge MacIntyre No.12 of the Tennessee Volunteers celebrates after defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium on Oct.

17, 2026, in Knoxville, Tenn.(Getty Images)We're just a few months away from completing our 26th year in this century, somehow, and the SEC was the first conference in that time frame to have five teams rankedin the top-20 lose in just one weekend.

That's pretty remarkable.And it's also a sign of things to come.We've known for some time that the advent of NIL and the transfer portal would change college football.

But it doesn't seem like we've come fully to grips with just how quickly that change would happen and how much of an impact it would have on the sport.The reasons for this, and the results from it, are obvious.In decades past, a say, four-star recruit might choose to commit to Nick Saban's Alabama, or Pete Carroll's USC, hoping to play for championships and reach the NFL.

Then find themselves losing out on a starting role to an even more highly regarded five-star player.With little recourse, short of transferring to sit out an entire season, that player likely would stay put, wait their turn, ...