The AP Top 25 College Football Poll is about to finally be rendered utterly useless when the College Football Playoff rankings show kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 4, but even with its final breaths of relevance it still found a way to be embarrassingly inaccurate.

Mark Carney has been named Kent State's football coach after serving as interim since April. He took over after Kenni Burns was fired for contract violations.

Elsewhere in Big Ten play, Washington upended No. 23 Illinois 42-25 in Seattle, improving the Huskies to 6-2 on the season and 3-2 in conference play. Sticking in the Pacific Northwest, No. 6 Oregon — playing much of the second half without quarterback Dante Moore — ground out a 21-7 win over visiting Wisconsin.

Alabama heads into its second open week on a seven-game winning streak. Here's where the Crimson Tide sits in the latest college football rankings.

The top four seeds remain unchanged on the College Football Playoff bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday, but three of the four first-round matchups would change and Memphis returned as the Group of Five representative.