The Big 12 has two teams in the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the first time in two years.

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Both Illinois (5-3) and Rutgers (4-4) are hoping to turn the dial back in their favor after Saturday’s showdown in Champaign.

It took Joe Paterno — the winningest Division I coach in college football history — three years to turn a 5-5 team into an unbeaten club that finished the season ranked No. 2 in the nation. Bobby Bowden needed four seasons to turn Florida State from a loser into a legit title contender with an 11-1 season.

The Auburn Tigers dropped to 4-5 on the season following its 10-3 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday, Nov. 1.

Perhaps to the surprise of some, the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos, who are both 6-2 and atop their respective divisions with second-year quarterbacks at the helm, enter Week 9 with the longest active winning streaks in the NFL.

Auburn has officially fired head coach Hugh Freeze after the Tigers fell to 4-5 with a loss to Kentucky on Saturday.

The top seven teams were unchanged in the final AP poll before the CFP releases its first rankings Tuesday, with BYU, Texas Tech and Notre Dame filling out the top 10.