Florida has emerged as the new No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll after Syracuse lost its second game in a week on Saturday.

The major shakeup marks the first significant change in some time after the Orange initially jumped out to a 25-0 start before dropping the two decisions this week, with the first loss coming to Boston College and the second to Duke. To see the rest of the rankings, click here.

Florida is undoubtedly enjoying the new top spot but the team downplayed it. Of course, the team is trying to make sure the new ranking doesn't affect the way they play down the stretch.

"Although it's a nice honor and it's great, if you really want to break it down, what does it mean?" said Florida coach Donovan, who talked to ESPN.com. "It means that some teams in front of us lost. It means that we obviously were given that ranking. But whether we're 15, 2, 1, not ranked, we've got to play [Tuesday] against Vanderbilt. To me, the ranking doesn't do anything for us, it doesn't give us anything. It doesn't."

Even the players are downplaying things.

"Our lives aren't really changing," Florida senior forward Will Yeguete said to ESPN. "We're No. 1. That's a really good accomplishment, especially for us being No. 1. But I think Coach D will use that to motivate us. We've been No. 2 before. We know what it is to be ranked really high. We know you just take one game at a time."

Meanwhile, Syracuse appears to be on the brink of disaster and coach Jim Boeheim was so frustrated that he got himself tossed from the Duke game on Saturday.

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