Mississippi State

Kellan Grady scored eight points in overtime, giving Wildcats coach John Calipari got his 800th career on-court victory and No. 12 Kentucky win over Mississippi State 82-74.

Florida State is the 16th team to post back-to-back undefeated seasons since 1950 -- but it wasn't easy.

No. 1 Mississippi State visits fourth-ranked Alabama in a battle of SEC rivals that are trying to solidify their bids for one of the four College Football Playoff spots.

Oregon has jumped over undefeated Florida State and into second in the College Football Playoff rankings, while TCU took over the fourth spot.

The College Football Playoff selection committee has unveiled the first of seven top 25 rankings. There's good news for three SEC teams, none of which is Alabama.

And then there were three.

The list of unbeaten teams among the AP's top-25 is down to four.

Mississippi State is going to move up at least one more spot in The Associated Press college football pool after picking up its ninth straight win since last season.

East Carolina is ranked in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 2008 and Mississippi State moved into the Top 25 for the first time in two seasons after breaking a long losing streak against LSU.