The Tigers (17-2) remain the undisputed standard at No. 1, but the story beneath them is all about movement. The Blue Devils rocketed from No. 13 to No. 4 — a nine-spot jump that nobody else in the poll comes close to matching — signaling that the race for the throne now runs through Durham as much as it does through South Bend, where the Fighting Irish climbed one rung to No. 2. The Orange's four-spot rise from No. 7 to No. 3 confirms that May chaos isn't just coming; it's already here.
If the Blue Devils are the poll's rocket ship, the Cavaliers are its cautionary tale. Virginia plummeted from No. 4 to No. 11, a seven-spot freefall that mirrors the Big Red's drop from No. 5 to No. 10 and the Spiders' slide from No. 2 to No. 7. Three programs that looked like locks for the top tier a week ago now find themselves fighting for respect. The Red Foxes (12-5) crashing the party at No. 20 from unranked is the kind of late-season arrival that makes you believe anything is possible in June.
Data via ESPN · Summarized by D1Ball's editorial engine from official statistics.
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