By james art 
The Texas Longhorns sat and watched during their bye week as chaos ensued for a handful of ranked teams on Saturday.
After the dust settled and the Week 11 AP poll was released, the Longhorns moved up.
Texas moved up one spot from #6 to #5 in the AP Top 25. After Penn State’s loss to Ohio State, the Miami Hurricanes and Buckeyes also moved up one spot.
The Oregon Ducks were the unanimous No. 1 team with all 62 first-place votes.
Here are the top 10:
No. 1 – Oregon Ducks
No. 2 – Georgia Bulldogs
#3 – Ohio State Buckeyes
No. 4 – Miami Hurricanes
No. 5 – Texas Longhorns
#6 – Penn State Nittany Lions
No. 7 – Tennessee Volunteers
#8 – Indiana Hoosiers
#9 – BYU Cougars
#10 – Notre Dame, Fighting Irish
The AP poll won’t be worth much longer with the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season coming out Tuesday. These rankings will be updated every week until the end of the season, making the AP poll seemingly meaningless.
When the Longhorns were No. 1 earlier this season, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian made it clear that the AP rankings didn’t mean too much.
“I think now more than ever — and I don’t want to take anything away from the polls — because of the 12-team playoff, it really doesn’t matter,” Sarkisian said. “We say it all the time as a team, it’s not really what other people think of us. It’s about what we do and we have to perform and we have to prepare to perform. Because the way it was set up, back in the day, the polls were huge because the polls dictated who would play for a national championship and ultimately who would win the national championship. Nowadays you have to go earn it.
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