With a dominant 45-24 win over rival Tennessee to end the regular season, Vanderbilt is in excellent position to make its first College Football Playoff appearance. However, that is not how the AP poll sees it, as the Commodores were somehow demoted in the latest college football top 25 rankings update.

The weekly AP poll was released on Sunday , and Vanderbilt dropped from No. 12 to No. 13 in a puzzling move. The AP rankings do not hold as much weight at this point in the season as the College Football Playoff rankings do, but the shift was still notable, given the magnitude of the Commodores' victory. Expand Tweet

Vanderbilt was bumped down to swap places with Miami, which moved up one spot. The Hurricanes entered the top 12 after dominating Pittsburgh in their final regular seaso

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