Ohio State, Miami and Clemson plunged in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday following their losses during a wild weekend, eight of the top 10 teams moved up one spot and Oregon was No. 1 for the seventh straight week.

The shakeup creates two top-five matchups in conference championship games coming up on Saturday. Oregon, the nation’s only unbeaten team, will face No. 3 Penn State in the Big Ten game. No. 2 Texas will play No. 5 Georgia in the Southeastern Conference game, a rematch of their top-five meeting in October won by the Bulldogs.

No. 4 Notre Dame, 11-1 and a winner of 10 straight, won’t play again until the College Football Playoff.

Ohio State, which lost for the fourth straight time to Michigan and was knocked out of the Big Ten title game, dropped five spots to No. 7, behind Tennessee.

SMU is No. 8 and followed by Indiana and Boise State. The Broncos are in the top 10 for the first time since 2011 and two spots ahead of No. 12 Arizona State, the highest-ranked Big 12 team.

Miami’s loss at Syracuse cost the Hurricanes a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, and possibly the CFP, and dropped them six spots to No. 14. Clemson, which plays SMU in the ACC game, lost at South Carolina and fell six places to No. 18.

South Carolina earned a three-rung promotion to No. 13. Mississippi remained No. 15 and was followed by Iowa State and BYU.

COACHING MOVES

West Virginia fired football coach Neal Brown as the Mountaineers continue to flounder in the Big 12.

Brown went 6-6 this season and had an overall record of 37-35 in his six seasons. His teams never competed for a Big 12 championship or were ranked in the AP Top 25 poll. They lost nine consecutive times to ranked opponents.

Purdue fired coach Ryan Walters after two poor seasons.

Walters finished his tenure with a 5-19 record while going 3-15 in Big Ten play. And he capped a historically bad final season by losing his last 11 games — the longest single-season streak in school history.

Purdue (1-11) lost six games by 35 or more points this season, including the two most lopsided losses in program history, 66-7 to then-No. 18 Notre Dame in September and Saturday’s 66-0 blowout at No. 10 Indiana.

Gus Malzahn is resigning as Central Florida’s head coach to become Florida State ‘s offensive coordinator.

UCF (4-8) concluded its season with a 28-14 loss to Utah.

Malzahn finished with a 28-24 mark in four years at UCF, the last two ending with losing records after joining the Big 12. He coached at Auburn for eight seasons before being fired in 2020.

Malzahn replaces offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Alex Atkins, who was fired Nov. 10 following a 52-3 loss at Notre Dame. The Seminoles rank 131st out of 134 in total offense and scoring offense, averaging 15.8 points a game heading into Saturday night’s rivalry game against Florida.

The Seminoles (2-9) have dropped significantly since going 13-1 last season and winning the ACC title.

The Knights, meanwhile, struggled mightily in Malzahn’s fourth season — most of it because of quarterback issues. Four players took snaps from center as the Knights finished 2-7 in conference play.

Florida State coach Mike Norvell fired Atkins, defensive coordinator Adam Fuller and receivers coach Ron Dugans amid the Seminoles’ season-long skid.