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Texas A&M and Texas Tech fell out of the top 25 after home upsets to unranked teams on Saturday and No. 17 Kansas State took its first loss of the year at home against seventh-ranked Oklahoma.
Getting back on track won't be easy for these three teams, with each facing tough games on the road this week. Kansas State is at No. 3 Oklahoma State, the Aggies visit the Sooners and the Red Raiders play at Texas.
The Aggies, who are coming off a 38-31 overtime loss to Missouri, have lost six straight to Oklahoma in Norman and have won just twice there in 15 tries.
Before losing to Texas Tech, the Sooners had won 39 straight at home.
''Norman is a difficult place to play, obviously, and their record proves as such,'' Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman said. ''It's going to be a tremendous challenge. We've got to bounce back from a tough home loss.''
Texas A&M beat the Sooners 33-19 at home last season, but hasn't won two straight against them since winning four consecutive meetings ending in 1998.
Oklahoma got back on track last week with a 58-17 win over Kansas State after dropping its first game of the season to Texas Tech the week before. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops knows his team can't underestimate the Aggies after losing to them last year.
''They're still very good,'' Stoops said. ''They're doing a lot of the same things offensively and defensively. They look very similar.''
Stoops will remind his team this week that if a few plays would have gone differently, the Aggies could very well be undefeated this season. Texas A&M, which also lost to Oklahoma State and No. 8 Arkansas, led by double digits at halftime in each of its losses.
''All of those teams are all good football teams and they're in a position to win in all those cases,'' Stoops said.
The Red Raiders followed up their big win over Oklahoma with a 41-7 loss to Iowa State. It was the first time in five years that Texas Tech didn't have a touchdown pass and Seth Doege managed a season-worst 171 yards passing
Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said he learns something new about his team every week and this week his lesson was clear.
''We don't know how to handle success, obviously,'' he said. ''But it's a good lesson learned.''
He said his team played hard and with a lot of emotion through its first seven games, but that simply didn't happen on Saturday.
''We were flat,'' he said. ''You know you're going to have one or two games a year that you're going to play that way and hopefully you're good enough to win your way out of it, and we're obviously not.''
Texas Tech has dropped six in a row to the Longhorns in Austin and hasn't beat Texas since 2008. Texas coach Mack Brown said he wasn't shocked by Tech's loss to Iowa State.
''It's very difficult for young guys to play consistently well each well,'' Brown said. ''When people are bragging on them it's easy to have a letdown some.''
He figures Saturday's loss will make the Red Raiders even more motivated to play well against his team.
''We plan on seeing the Texas Tech team that played Oklahoma in Norman,'' Brown said.
Tuberville doesn't feel as if he needs to say much to his team this week to get them up for this game.
''Anytime you play rival games, coaches don't normally have to get involved,'' he said. ''There will be very good preparation, a lot of emotion and more fan involvement.''
Oklahoma State has won the last two at home over Kansas State, but the Wildcats won the previous four in Stillwater. Oklahoma's Landry Jones threw for a school-record 505 yards and had five touchdowns against Kansas State last week.
''We have to play better against the pass and offensively we have to be more productive,'' Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said. ''It wasn't all about our defense. It really was a team loss.''
The Cowboys are 8-0 for the first time since 1945 and the second time in school history. It's also the first time they've ever been 5-0 in conference play.
Their game against Kansas State game kicks off at the same time as No. 1 LSU at second-ranked Alabama on Saturday. But Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy doesn't think the spotlight on that game takes any pressure off his team this week.
''We're a state that thrives on college football,'' Gundy said. ''There isn't a professional team here, so when our teams are having success in this area in their environment, people know who they are. I'm sure (this game) is getting brought up more than it would be on the national scene or more than what's going on in Alabama.''
