No. 18 Vanderbilt continued its stellar 2025 season with a 31-24 victory against No. 10 LSU, a win that improved the Commodores' record to 6-1. In a winning effort, Diego Pavia polished his Heisman Trophy resume with 246 total yards and three touchdowns — and,

Texas Tech now sits in a three-way tie with Arizona State and Houston for the second-best record in the conference. BYU and Cincinnati are tied for first at 4-0. But they’ll go head-to-head on Nov. 22, and Texas Tech gets to take on BYU on Nov. 8.

Following Week 8 games, Vols Wire provides SEC football power rankings. Tennessee is ranked No. 8. Follow Vols Wire on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).

Follow along here for live updates, highlights, preview and more from a loaded Week 8 of college football headlined by No. 5 Ole Miss at No. 9 Georgia and No. 6 Alabama vs. No. 11 Tennessee.

Reminder: The 12-team CFP is made up of the five-highest ranked conference champions and seven at-large teams. First-round byes are no longer given to the four highest-ranked champs. In the new straight seeding format, byes go to the four highest-ranked teams.

The Big Ten and SEC are comfortably at the top of the CFP pecking order currently, with it getting murky in spots five through 12.

Week 8 is in the books in the SEC, and some teams got statement wins, others struggled, dropping in the Week 9 SEC Football Power Rankings

See our top photos from the Oklahoma Sooners vs South Carolina Gamecocks in Week 8 of the 2025 college football season.

College football's deepest league still has a significant number of teams in the mix to make the 12-team CFP field.