Among them is ESPN’s SP+ put together by Bill Connelly, which dropped the Orange and Blue from No. 26 last week out of 134 Football Bowl Subdivision schools with a 13.0 overall rating to No. 39 with a 6.9 rating.

The Texas Longhorns successfully defended their home field on Saturday from the Florida Gators, 49-17, as the two schools faced each other for the first time in 84 years. The loss kept the Orange and

Florida football found itself overmatched this weekend in Austin, where the Texas Longhorns handily defeated the Gators during Week 11, 49-17, in the first meeting between the two schools on the collegiate gridiron since 1940.