Gators to face No. 1 team

A wild weekend of college football continued Sunday.

It started Friday night in Tampa when then-No. 18 South Florida knocked off then-No. 5 West Virginia 21-13.

Upsets were the order of the day Saturday, when half the top 10 lost.

One team that didn't lose, although it produced a sloppy 27-24 win over Washington, was top-ranked Southern California. That cost the Trojans in a wacky weekend in which three of the top five and seven of the top 13 teams lost produced a new No. 1.

The Trojans dropped a spot in Sunday's Associated Press Top 25 poll. Louisiana State is the new No. 1.

Florida (4-1), which was stunned by Auburn 20-17 at Florida Field on Saturday night, fell from No. 4 to No. 9.

LSU is No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time since Nov. 2, 1959. LSU hosts Florida for an 8:28 p.m. kickoff Saturday on CBS.

Southern Cal is the first team to lose the No. 1 ranking after a victory since Nov. 3, 2002, when top-ranked Miami dropped after beating Rutgers 42-17 and No. 2 Oklahoma moved up after a 27-11 victory over No. 13 Colorado.

Cal moved up to No. 3, Ohio State is No. 4 and Wisconsin is No. 5.

The rest of the Top 10: No. 6 South Florida, No. 7 Boston College, No. 8 Kentucky, No. 9 Florida and No. 10 Oklahoma.

In the USA Today coaches’ poll, USC held on to No. 1, with LSU, Cal, Ohio State and Wisconsin in the top five. Florida is No. 7 in the coaches' poll.

LSU, which recovered from its own first-half malaise to beat Tulane 34-9 on Saturday, received 33 first-place votes from the media panel and 1,593 points. USC got 32 first-place votes, 11 fewer than last week, and 1,591 points.