UNDATED (AP) — The Big Ten is set up to be the most interesting conference in the country over the final two months of the season. The latest AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank has five Big Ten teams ranked among the top 11. The fun starts next Saturday when No. 4 Penn State visits No. 3 Iowa. The Penn State-Ohio State-Michigan-Michigan State round robin starts the day before Halloween when the Nittany Lions are at Ohio State and the Wolverines visit the Spartans. Because of the way the schedule lays out, it’s possible all four of those Big Ten East teams could be ranked inside the top 10 heading into Oct. 30. Reality Check is psyched to see how the Big Ten plays out, but it does have a quibble with where at least one of those top-10 teams is ranked this week.

UNDATED (AP) — SMU’s Tanner Mordecai is throwing touchdown passes at the fastest rate in the Football Bowl Subdivision since 2012. The Oklahoma transfer has passed for at least four touchdowns in each of the Mustangs’ games and his total of 24 is the most through five games since West Virginia’s Geno Smith threw for the same number in 2012. Iowa intercepted six passes against Maryland for the Hawkeyes’ most since they had seven against Wisconsin in 1982. Six players rushed for at least 200 yards over the weekend, led by Chase Brown’s 257 on 26 carries for Illinois against Charlotte.

UNDATED (AP) — Alabama and Georgia remain the top two teams in The Associated Press college football poll after a week in which nine ranked teams lost. Iowa moved up to No. 3 and is gearing up for No. 4 Penn State in its biggest home game since the 1980s. No. 5 Cincinnati has its highest ranking in 12 years. Oklahoma, Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan and Brigham Young round out the top 10. Clemson is out of the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2014 despite beating Boston College. The Tigers had been ranked in 107 consecutive polls. Kentucky, Texas, Southern Methodist and San Diego State entered the AP Top 25.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado football coach Karl Dorrell has apologized for shoving a photojournalist’s television camera as he trotted off the field following the Buffaloes’ blowout loss to Southern California on Saturday. On Sunday, Dorrell apologized both publicly and personally. His acknowledgement came a day after athletic director Rick George was criticized on social media for tweeting an apology on behalf of his head coach.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado athletic director Rick George apologized on twitter on behalf of football coach Karl Dorrell for shoving a photojournalist’s camera following a 37-14 loss to Southern California on Saturday. But George was criticized on social media for characterizing the coach’s shove of a the CBS affiliate’s TV camera as an interception. And the scuffling football program was also criticized because Dorrell didn’t issue an apology himself either in his post-game news conference or on social media like George did.

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