{"id":7639,"date":"2025-09-28T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:18:05","slug":"movement-in-the-college-football-top-25-9-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/movement-in-the-college-football-top-25-9-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement in the College Football Top 25 (9\/28\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week we welcome back a school that has not been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegepollarchive.com\/football\/ap\/teams\/summary.cfm?teamid=104\">AP Top 25<\/a> of college football for some time. With their dramatic, double-overtime win over #8 Florida State, the Virginia Cavaliers are back in the national rankings for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaaf-media-guide_2019_va.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaaf-media-guide_2019_va.jpg\" alt=\"2019 Virginia Cavaliers football media guide\" class=\"wp-image-7640\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaaf-media-guide_2019_va.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaaf-media-guide_2019_va-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That year, QB Bryce Perkins led Virginia to a 9-5 record (6-2 in the ACC) and an appearance in the Orange Bowl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl-789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2019 Orange Bowl program\" class=\"wp-image-7642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl-768x996.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ncaa-football-bowl-program_2019-orange-bowl.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the Cavaliers suffered a 36-28 loss to Florida in that game, which left them with a final AP ranking of #24. They had been as high as #18 after starting the season four straight wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we welcome back a school that has not been in the AP Top 25 of college football for some time. With their dramatic, double-overtime win over #8 Florida State, the Virginia Cavaliers are back in the national rankings for the first time since 2019. That year, QB Bryce Perkins led Virginia to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[459,774,26,50,570,884],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2010s","tag-774","tag-college-football","tag-media-guides","tag-top-25","tag-virginia-cavaliers","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}