Notre Dame is a top-10 team for the first time in three years, and Southern California has matched Miami for the longest stay at no. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25.

Charlie Weis’s Fighting Irish are no. 10 in the AP media poll released yesterday, jumping 10 spots after upsetting Michigan 17-10 on Saturday to improve to 2-0.

Weis is the first Notre Dame coach since Knute Rockne in 1918 to win his first two games on the road, helping the Fighting Irish to their highest ranking since they were seventh in late November 2002.

USC now has been no. 1 for 21 straight polls, a run that dates back to late in the 2003 season and matches the record set by Miami from 2001-02. USC was idle this week, and Texas’s impressive 25-22 win at Ohio State helped the Longhorns make up some ground on the Trojans. USC received 56 of 64 first-place votes, down from the 61 it had last week. Texas pulled in eight first-place votes, up from four in the first regular-season poll.

No. 3 LSU moved up two spots on the strength of a dramatic 35-31 win at Arizona State. Virginia Tech is no. 4, the Hokies’ highest ranking since October 19, 2003. Tennessee will be no. 5 when it plays at no. 6 Florida next Saturday. It’ll be the first time since 2002 the Vols and Gators will both be in the top 10 when they play.

Michigan dropped 11 spots to no. 14 as the upper echelon of the Big Ten took a hit on Saturday. The Big Ten went into the weekend with three teams in the top 10, but now has one. Ohio State fell five spots to no. 9 after losing to Texas, and Iowa tumbled 14 spots to no. 22 after its loss to Iowa State.