AP Poll Week 6

[u/Efficient-Freedom517]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/Smooth-Majudo-15]

The voters who keep voting for Florida need their heads examined

[u/Ok_Reception9247 → u/Smooth-Majudo-15]

Going from 8th in the country to unranked in 2 weeks is so Florida

[u/Otherwise-Lock7157 → u/Ok_Reception9247]

That's why we drink.

[u/orthros → u/Smooth-Majudo-15]

I mean it's 9 votes and JMU has 3x the vote total so yeah, I think Florida has suffered enough in the last 2 weeks

[u/HeftyLeftyPig]

1. Georgia
2. Notre Dame
3. Miami (FL)
4. Ohio State
5. Indiana
6. Alabama
7. Texas
8. BYU
9. Ole Miss
10. Texas Tech
11. Utah
12. UCLA
13. Missouri
14. Tennessee
15. Kentucky
16. Mississippi State
17. Iowa
18. Oklahoma State
19. USC
20. Houston
21. Wake Forest
22. LSU
23. Boise State
24. SMU
25. Northwestern

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES:
Wisconsin 92, Oregon 86, Arizona 82, Nebraska 65, Oklahoma 44, James Madison 29, Florida 9, Duke 5, New Mexico 3, Oregon State 1

[u/titor420 → u/HeftyLeftyPig]

The last time miami was 5-0 ranked in the top 3 was... last year. Right before we lost to louisville.

[u/runliftcount → u/titor420]

Good thing they don't play them this year!

[u/runningwaffles19 → u/HeftyLeftyPig]

Northwestern and Wake ranked. Good job AP

LSU should be out

[u/Gophurkey → u/runningwaffles19]

This means at this point, Purdue's losses are to the 2nd, 12th, and 21st ranked teams.

I had been saying since they happened that Wake and UCLA weren't bad losses at all, but showed we can hang with teams who are clearly in the dcent-to-very good tier. And since Indiana State and ND are in different levels of competition from us (on opposite sides) neither of those games really matter.

[u/galeforcewinds95 → u/HeftyLeftyPig]

I'm happy we're back in the receiving votes category.

[u/kylekorverburner → u/galeforcewinds95]

I’ve coached you guys to 2 national championships in my CFB 27 dynasty if that makes you feel any better, go lobos

[u/KushDingies]

NO2THWE5TERN LETS GOOOOO

and now I am suddenly much more nervous about the Fitz bowl

[u/justaverage]

Oregon’s streak of consecutive weeks ranked ends at 69

Nice

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/justaverage]

We did it on purpose because we’re so good at sex

[u/Tamzariane → u/justaverage]

They did it just so that Nebraska has no chance of breaking our winless streak against ranked teams next week

[u/Infinite-Group-4520]

RANKED NORTHWESTERN. FINALLY.

[u/No_Preparation2766 → u/Infinite-Group-4520]

A wonderful week for cat-themed mascots

[u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS → u/No_Preparation2766]

duck themed mascots are having a bad time though

[u/Infinite-Group-4520 → u/Infinite-Group-4520]

Nebraska and Northwestern would be 14 and 15 if they were in the SEC though, like Tennessee and Kentucky are.

[u/kabukimono1980 → u/Infinite-Group-4520]

Nebraska is a good team, but I'm okay with Kentucky's ranking.

[u/Flaky-Philosophy7618 → u/kabukimono1980]

Kentucky have been impressive, Tennessee is a straight up fraud

[u/lssue → u/Flaky-Philosophy7618]

We are not good at all

[u/storeactions → u/Flaky-Philosophy7618]

The only reason Tennessee is ranked is because they started the season ranked, and they're SEC.

Ignore my flairs I'm not biased.

[u/doormatt26 → u/Infinite-Group-4520]

Kentucky has earned it, Tennessee is a turbo-fraud

[u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

🚨🚨🚨ATTENTION OREGON STATE HAS RECEIVED A VOTE I REPEAT OREGON STATE HAS RECEIVED A VOTE 🚨🚨🚨

[u/Reasonable_Cod_487 → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

CHAINSAW NOISES

[u/EcologyLover69 → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

THATS MY REAL MUFUCKIN ORANGE SHIT

[u/SkubalIsPitching → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

Somehow they aren't recieving much attention. They covered the spread against two ranked teams to start the season and since then they have blown everybody out.

They could seriously go undefeated in conference play and make the playoffs.

Oregon State has an easier path to the playoffs than Oregon.

[u/Competitive-Tree-668 → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

Oregon State is a good team. Definitely not the easy game everyone thought it was going to be. Also kudos to the beaver fan who sat in our home section and was full energy the whole game despite it being 100 degrees outside and weather delayed

[u/Zloggt → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

Inshallah, may we soon see Oregon State having more votes than Oregon!

(There’s a genuine chance of that happening too…ain’t that something?)

[u/single_thread_left → u/Zloggt]

Great day to be a beaver.

[u/joethahobo → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

Houston needs Oregon State to keep winning please. And Houston continuing to win looks good on Oregon State too.

Keep it up we are all rooting for you!

[u/Losalou52 → u/joethahobo]

Yep.

Houston, Oregon State, and Texas Tech are aligned the rest of the way.

Let’s keep winning 👏

[u/FullGump → u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL]

Yall do have the statistically best receiver in CFB right now

[u/QuitWhinging]

🚨 Wake Forest and Northwestern are ranked in football at the same time, this is NOT a drill 🚨

E: I'm not going to be combing through their week-by-week rankings every season going back to the inception of the AP poll in 1936, but as far as I'm aware based on some Google-fu and Wikipedia-kwon-do, it appears that the last time these two teams have been simultaneously ranked was a few weeks during the 1948 season. Northwestern was ranked within the top 10 every week the poll rated teams that year (as high as #3), whereas Wake snuck into the following polls: 11/01/1948 (#18), 11/08/1948 (#19), and 11/29/1948 (#20).

[u/justanaveragejoe520 → u/QuitWhinging]

Wake deserves it they are playing some great foootball right now

[u/QuitWhinging → u/justanaveragejoe520]

Northwestern too. Their only loss was an extremely close one to Indiana. Otherwise, they've beaten everyone else on their schedule by multiple scores.

[u/MaxPower91575 → u/QuitWhinging]

it was actually week 5 of 1950. Wake Forest was #17 while Northwestern was #9.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/wake-forest/polls.html

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/northwestern/polls.html

2008 was the last year they both were ranked at some point but not at the same time.

[u/No_Preparation2766]

ALERT: TOP 15 KENTUCKY

[u/Zloggt → u/No_Preparation2766]

I doubted them for a while…

…guess Will Stein shut me up real well, huh?

[u/makualla]

Purdue has only lost to Ranked teams with a combined record of 11-1 and has played 2 of them very close.

Are….are we maybe not complete ass?

[u/runliftcount → u/makualla]

16-1 my friend, you forgot UCLA.

[u/transferStudent2018 → u/makualla]

Definitely not complete ass. Night and day from last year

[u/runliftcount → u/makualla]

If we show up the rest of the year even like we did against Illinois last week, we'll finish the season 6-6. If we show up like last night? We could be 8-4. Still think we drop either Iowa or IU, but at least now neither seems guaranteed.

[u/duvie773]

Kentucky beating South Carolina week 5: wtf these guys suck

South Carolina beating Florida week 6: okay maybe we were a little harsh on Kentucky

[u/EasyBreecy → u/duvie773]

Why does it seem like South Carolina has the #1 SOS every year?

[u/orthros → u/EasyBreecy]

I mean they kinda do? You can argue for others but I can't think of the last time South Carolina had anywhere near a creampuff schedule

[u/magikatdazoo → u/EasyBreecy]

We play Georgia every year, plus one of Texas/Bama

[u/TBallinsPremPass]

Why is LSU ranked. Can somebody give me a good argument.

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Can't believe I'm defending the Ducks but there is no justification for ranking LSU while not ranking Oregon.

LSU hasn't beaten a ranked team. Their best win is either Clemson or A&M, both of whom are mid at best. And while both teams they've lost to are good, Kentucky is still unranked. ignore this point, I missed that Kentucky got ranked. Which they should be, tbh.

Oregon has two ranked wins in USC and Boise State. Both their losses are ranked in OK State and UCLA. And one of their losses has the excuse of a backup quarterback playing.

There is no rational justification beyond media hype and name brand to have LSU over Oregon.

[u/Vocen → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

I'll give you some cover for "defending" us: you're right, but to be clear the moral of the story is not that we should be ranked, but that LSU has no business being ranked either.

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils → u/Vocen]

Exactly

[u/BobStoops401K → u/Vocen]

As a fellow unranked 2 loss team (although one with a with a top 10 win) I agree. We shouldn't be ranked and neither should LSU

[u/BobStoops401K → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Same logic goes for Oklahoma. We lost to #1 Georgia and at Michigan, but beat #7 Texas. The Michigan loss isn't aging well but it's at Michigan in week 2.

We don't deserve to be ranked, but if we don't neither does LSU

[u/LovesToTango → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Kentucky is not unranked, but I do agree Oregon has a better resume

[u/D33MAN-182 → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Gotta keep LK relevant after the move. The drama keeps the viewers more interested.

[u/Carolina296864 → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Because theyre “LSU”. One of like 4 teams who could get away with being 4-2

[u/Some-Unique-Name → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Because it just means more?

[u/T2_JD → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Because they're not ready to admit they vastly overvalued LSU at the start of the season.

[u/tall_asian → u/TBallinsPremPass]

They have quality SEC losses which aren’t penalized as harshly.

[u/kaplanfx → u/tall_asian]

SEC quality ouroboros

[u/Dreadedvegas → u/TBallinsPremPass]

Media narratives invested

[u/TheCryptPartDeux]

LSU being ranked is suspect

[u/doormatt26 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Two losses, quality wins are… Clemson and A&M. What exactly makes their resume better than unranked Oregon?

[u/Fruit_Fly_LikeBanana → u/doormatt26]

Or Nebraska, Wisconsin, or really most X-1 unranked teams

[u/orthros → u/doormatt26]

Nebraska has the bigger grievance imo, especialy given their sole loss is... well you know

[u/doormatt26 → u/orthros]

Nebraska has Tennessee’s resume to a T

[u/dimechimes → u/doormatt26]

They play at night

[u/kabukimono1980 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Extremely sus

[u/thdomer13 → u/[deleted]]

Kelly was actually also a yoga guy.

[u/luis1972 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Does Lane Kiffin do hot yoga with AP voters? Many people are asking.

[u/sixmilesoldier → u/luis1972]

Lane does not. Joseph Bayouwater does.

[u/Isthmus11 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

To be honest I am just thankful they got dropped as far as they did

[u/DmitriShostabrovich]

ROLL DAMN CATS

[u/Shaquille_0atmea1 → u/DmitriShostabrovich]

Yeah Kentucky looks pretty good this year

[u/FuronPox123 → u/Shaquille_0atmea1]

There should've been three ranked Wildcats tbh, Arizona's only loss is on the road to a now top-10 BYU

[u/NeedleworkerLanky591]

Top 15 Kentucky is nightmare fuel.

[u/daedralordx → u/NeedleworkerLanky591]

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[u/FruitGuy998 → u/NeedleworkerLanky591]

They finally had the balls to rank us

[u/Revolver_Oshawott_]

Tell your kids about top 15 Kentucky

Starting to think Will Stein had a lot more magic for those Oregon teams than we realized

[u/PossiblyYourDad → u/Revolver_Oshawott_]

Yeah I feel like my opinion of will stein was completely wrong. He looks like he is going to be one hell of a head coach

[u/legomonkeyspaceship → u/PossiblyYourDad]

He probably would’ve been a solid coach wherever he went, but UK is his dream job and you can tell how much it means to him

[u/B1ackMagix → u/PossiblyYourDad]

He is one of three coaches to be ranked in their first year at Kentucky. The others being Bear Bryant and Blanton Collier

[u/Revolver_Oshawott_ → u/PossiblyYourDad]

"WILL STEIN BUILT THIS TOP 15 TEAM IN A PORTAL, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS"

[u/av7ry]

Poll inertia is too silly. LSU is the only team on here who has lost two games

[u/Dokkan_Lifter → u/av7ry]

Meanwhile, JMU is undefeated after finishing 19 last season and has only gained 20 votes since week 0. Poll inertia for some, nothing for others.

[u/glassclouds1894]

Wake and NW finally cracking and UK in the top 15 is finally a correct set of choices by the AP.

Louisiana State hasn't beaten a ranked team and can't win on the road, but I'll take their steep slide.

[u/Darth-Taytor → u/glassclouds1894]

I love how you referred to LSU as Louisiana State. At first I was like, wait, some random Louisiana FCS school make into the top 25 or something? Why yes, yes it did.

[u/EdselFordEdsel → u/Darth-Taytor]

Is Louisiana State Baton Rouge, a branch campus of some larger, more notable, state school in Louisiana?

[u/LovesToTango → u/glassclouds1894]

I feel like LSU should probably be unranked at this point. Their 2 losses are to good teams, but I think there are at least a few teams that have a better resume behind them

[u/thehock101]

Oregon State vote received 😤

[u/Brownie_McBrown_Face]

Here for unranked Oregon

[u/slyone05 → u/Brownie_McBrown_Face]

And one vote Oregon State

[u/NevermoreSEA → u/slyone05]

We are actually so fucking back.

[u/jamiebond → u/[deleted]]

With how bad Raiola looked this week USC if anything should have been retroactively dropped farther lol

[u/stephcurry824 → u/Brownie_McBrown_Face]

....we did that?

[u/luis1972 → u/stephcurry824]

You did that.

[u/insanecrossfire]

Kentucky 😎

[u/Radiant_Sherbert7272 → u/insanecrossfire]

That's great to see for Kentucky. Will Stein is one heck of a coach.

[u/Beneficiallym8]

LSU being ranked is absolutely insane. They have 2 losses in week 6. And have no ranked wins. In fact!

Oregon has a ranked win. And their two losses are to ranked teams!? So how does that make SECNSE? I mean SECNSE? I mean Sense??

Damn my keyboard is broken

[u/persiangriffin → u/Beneficiallym8]

Oregon has two ranked wins actually

[u/Fallout76stuggles]

How the hell did we move up?

[u/Fromunda_Cheese → u/Fallout76stuggles]

It’s like they don’t even watch the games

[u/Blarg1889 → u/Fromunda_Cheese]

AP voters

People who watch college football games

You can only pick one

[u/festive_fecal_feast]

Finally, we get justice for Northwestern and Wake Forest.

Also, kinda figured we would find our way to #5 just before the Ohio St game lol

[u/FlexSealClubber → u/festive_fecal_feast]

Nebraska should be ranked IMO

[u/festive_fecal_feast → u/FlexSealClubber]

They should, but I think they are next week if they beat Oregon. Oregon is sitting right at ~27 now.

[u/doom_pony]

How is LSU ranked lmao

[u/GoDiegoGo7969]

Thank God. We somehow only dropped 6 spots. That Ohio State win is carrying us rn

[u/Renfah87]

Honestly didn't want to be ranked anyway. Ranked teams should be able to put away any game they're in control of for 3+ quarters.

[u/Gbchris12]

RANKED NERDS. I REPEAT THE NERDS OF NORTHWESTERN ARE RANKED.

[u/Ok-Web-4971 → u/Gbchris12]

Smells like a library in this bitch

[u/SpiritFingersKitty → u/Ok-Web-4971]

We came to play school... And football

[u/kdbvols → u/Gbchris12]

Lots of ranked nerds tbh

[u/daedralordx]

MOMMA WE'RE IN THE TOP 15!!!

[u/hypno_notic]

No other teams with two losses is ranked so why is LSU?

[u/runner2rower]

Arizona, the most disrespected team in America

[u/GumbySquad → u/runner2rower]

The AP Poll bylaws state: “The SEC must have at least 9 teams ranked at all times while the B12 cannot have more than 5 teams ranked”

Thems the rules, not much we can do about it at this point.

[u/BigBlueNate33]

Talk to your kids about a TOP 15 RANKED KENTUCKY

[u/Confident_Delay5805]

RANKED NORTHWESTERN?! RANKED WAKE FOREST? IN 2026?! 

[u/Realhuman221]

Only one loss, on the road to the number 8, and we’re still not ranked

[u/Business_Permit_3686 → u/Realhuman221]

Should be in over LSU

[u/madrocketman → u/Realhuman221]

Arizona >> LSU

[u/kylekorverburner → u/Realhuman221]

I think if you guys beat ISU as bad as y’all beat WV last night no chance you’re left out again

[u/kopecs]

Damn, Oregon falling out of rankings for once. Shit sucks man.

[u/Ok-Lack-5172 → u/kopecs]

Winner of the OSU - Oregon game ends up ranked while the other is unranked like we all thought

[u/AGroAllDay]

How is Arizona not ranked? Make it make sense

[u/Phospherus2 → u/AGroAllDay]

Because LSU still needs to be ranked

[u/Maustin_99 → u/AGroAllDay]

They’re not SEC duh

[u/Darth-Taytor → u/AGroAllDay]

They should absolutely be top 25. I'm guessing they ended up 26 or 27.

[u/DaZingMaster]

I must be watching different games than the AP with those close Tennessee wins over Auburn and Arkansas and still being ranked over Kentucky blowing out A&M and beating LSU.

[u/SurroundEcstatic4890 → u/DaZingMaster]

Kentucky has looked more impressive imo, I think it’s because of the losses. A 3 point loss to Texas at home versus a 28 point loss to Alabama at home, even if the game was closer than the score might indicate.

When Alabama beats the shit out of Tennessee, it will sort itself out

[u/IVIustangGT]

Northwestern should be 22 and Nebraska 25 by the hoops that they jump through with quality losses for SEC schools. LSU still ranked at 4-2 is crazy.

[u/-we-win-those → u/IVIustangGT]

Agreed, LSU needs to drop, and NW needs to be higher 

[u/AbsurdOwl → u/IVIustangGT]

Right? Indiana is #5 and someone voted them number 1, but the team that dominated them for most of the game this week and lost to them by 3 is unranked at 5-1. Meanwhile, LSU has lost to the only two good teams they've played, and they're still in because they were expected to be good, and something something poll momentum. Just dumb.

[u/chrobbin → u/AbsurdOwl]

I feel like the one Indiana vote is a lone holdout with the idea that “defending national champ is still undefeated, so they hold it til they lose”

[u/InterdepartmentalTed]

> beat conference opponent convincingly
> multiple teams ahead of us lose
> drop in rankings

Make that make sense

[u/variedtributes → u/InterdepartmentalTed]

Yeah, you all got the WORST treatment of anyone this week, imo.

[u/Wide-Nerve8655 → u/InterdepartmentalTed]

Sorry it’s because we suck

[u/Leading-Button-7303]

Welcome, northwestern. Glad to see you finally got what you deserved (not ranked high enough but this is a start)

[u/Anto3914]

OREON STATE IS RECEIVING A VOTE. CANT BELIEVE THIS IS MY LIFE

[u/NoVax-Djocovid]

A 2 loss LSU absolutely should not be ranked wtf

[u/bjbc → u/NoVax-Djocovid]

They don't even have a win against a ranked team.

[u/Gently-Weeps]

Get LSU out of here lol, other than that I don’t have a lot of complaints.

I’m sure IU vs Ohio State next week will show who deserves to be in the top 5 more, and if Ohio State should or shouldn’t be ranked above Texas

Also yay Northwestern, y’all deserve to be ranked

[u/I-CAN-DO-EAT]

LSU is ranked for why?

[u/olemiss18 → u/I-CAN-DO-EAT]

Sunk cost fellatio, I mean fallacy.

[u/Purples_A_Fruit]

Oregon receiving votes still feels wrong.

In related news, Oregon has just turned the ball over again to UCLA somehow.

[u/Zirken]

I don’t know what ole miss has shown to be above Utah and tech.

[u/doormatt26 → u/Zirken]

When we later discover a highly ranked preseason team is mid (LSU) we fail to unreward the first team to beat them

[u/OfficialHavik → u/Zirken]

The SEC logo on their jerseys

[u/PhantasmaX]

Beavs with 1

[u/HeftyLeftyPig]

Honest Utah fan here, but.. the Utes are ‘paper tigers’. We have NO secondary. Swiss cheese

[u/AnabolikinSkywalker → u/HeftyLeftyPig]

Good thing the sport is just about winning and there’s many ways to skin that cat.

[u/KrypticSoul → u/HeftyLeftyPig]

Having a weakness doesn't make you a fraud. Try enjoying a good football team for once. Plenty of teams have shown weakness. Take BYU barely beating TCU, Tech looking sus, Tennessee barely beating Arkansas. The list goes on and on.

[u/Kh3hhdds343]

Ole Miss has a worse loss than any team in the top 25 and is still in the top 10. And its wins look less impressive with each passing week.

[u/lock_robster2022]

WE RECEIVED A VOTE!!!!!

[u/Jaded_Ad_1587]

Wisconsin should be ranked.

[u/NeonTiger1135]

Thank you Mizzou, thank you South Carolina

[u/KingCarbonX]

I see a ranked Wake forest 👀

[u/Benjamin_Huxley]

Finally ranked Wake Forest

[u/Confident_Delay5805]

The AP Poll keeps Blue Balling the Badgers lol

[u/KindlyCharge6748]

NORTHWESTERN LETS GO

[u/KronosIII]

Miami <-> Do Nothing & Win

[u/BatManatee]

If I told you a few years ago that Indiana, UCLA, and Kentucky were all ranked in the top 15, you'd think that it has been a very normal basketball season.

[u/bladefencer]

ranked teams	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	potentially relevant unranked wins
1. Georgia	6-0	@#6 by 3			3-2 Oklahoma
2. Notre Dame	6-0				4-1 Wisconsin, @ 3-3 Purdue, @ 3-2 North Carolina
3. Miami	5-0	@#21 by 13			@ 3-2 Clemson
4. Ohio State	5-1	@#17 by 17	@#7 by 1
5. Indiana	6-0	#25 by 6			@ 5-1 Nebraska
6. Alabama	5-1	@#15 by 28, @#16 by 33	#1 by 3		3-3 South Carolina
7. Texas	4-1	#4 by 1, @#14 by 3		3-2 Oklahoma	5-1 UTSA
8. BYU	5-0				5-1 Arizona
9. Ole Miss	4-1	#22 by 8		@ 4-2 Florida †	3-3 Louisville
10. Texas Tech	5-0	#20 by 2			@ 4-2 Oregon State
11. Utah	5-0
12. UCLA	5-0				3-3 Purdue, @ 3-2 Oregon ‡
13. Missouri	5-1		@#16 by 7		4-2 Florida †, 3-3 Texas A&M
14. Tennessee	5-1		#7 by 3		3-2 Auburn
15. Kentucky	5-1	#22 by 1	#6 by 28		@ 3-3 Texas A&M, @ 3-3 South Carolina
16. Mississippi State	4-1	#13 by 7	#6 by 33		@ 4-2 Minnesota, @ 3-3 South Carolina
17. Iowa	5-1		#4 by 17		@ 3-2 Michigan
18. Oklahoma State	4-1			@ 3-3 Tulsa	3-2 Oregon †
19. USC	6-1			3-2 Oregon †	@ 3-3 Penn State
20. Houston	5-1		@#10 by 2		4-2 Oregon State
21. Wake Forest	5-1		#3 by 13		@ 3-3 Purdue, @ 3-3 Louisville
22. LSU	4-2		@#9 by 8, @#15 by 1		3-2 Clemson, 3-3 Texas A&M
23. Boise State	5-1			@ 3-2 Oregon †	5-1 Memphis
24. SMU	4-1			@ 3-3 Louisville
25. Northwestern	4-1		@#5 by 6		3-3 Penn State

Rankings are from the current AP Top 25 because this is primarily about checking the internal consistency of the ranking.

Potentially relevant unranked wins are either teams receiving votes or teams ranked top 50 in the Massey composite. This is intended to give a decent idea of a team's resume without listing out every game.

† = was ranked last week, ‡ = was ranked last week and was knocked out of the ranking by the team in this row

Data from CFBD and ESPN. Please reply with any errors or suggestions for improvement.

*edit: added † and ‡

*edit 2: making sure formatting works on old and new reddit

*edit 3: switched to massey instead of FPI

[u/bladefencer → u/bladefencer]

For comparison to teams in the AP Top 25, here are teams receiving votes and unranked teams with ranked wins.

others receiving votes	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	potentially relevant unranked wins
Wisconsin	4-1		#2 by 28		@ 3-3 Penn State
Oregon	3-2	@#19 by 14, #23 by 7	#12 by 2, @#18 by 8
Arizona	5-1		@#8 by 11		4-1 Cincinnati
Nebraska	5-1		#5 by 3
Oklahoma	3-2	#7 by 3	@#1 by 28	@ 3-2 Michigan	4-1 New Mexico
James Madison	6-0
Florida	4-2	#9 by 24	@#13 by 28	3-3 South Carolina	@ 3-2 Auburn
Duke	4-1			@ 2-3 Georgia Tech
New Mexico	4-1			@ 3-2 Oklahoma
Oregon State	4-2		#10 by 11, @#20 by 13

has ranked win	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	potentially relevant unranked wins
Louisville	3-3	#24 by 10	#9 by 3, #21 by 3	@ 3-3 NC State
Tulsa	3-3	#18 by 14		@ 2-4 Arkansas , 4-2 North Texas , @ 2-3 Navy

[u/I-CAN-DO-EAT]

Oregon has now played 4 ranked teams and Portland state. Their next game is against Nebraska(29) who IMO should be ranked.

[u/Mjss776 → u/I-CAN-DO-EAT]

And then we play ranked Northwestern. Turns out we have a really hard schedule this year

[u/Serallas]

Ain't no way lsu is still ranked lmao. SEC fucking bias right there

[u/ID_Poobaru]

We actually held onto 23 after Oregon erased the quality loss. Probably gonna lose it to the bye week though

Nice to see new teams in here too

[u/Mammoth-Vanilla-7501]

TELL YOUR GRANDKIDS ABOUT #15 KENTUCKY

[u/Captain_SHO]

Just win 5 or the next 6 and we can finish the season in the RV column. #progress

[u/PunchNessie]

AP polls are funny sometimes. The Pokes moved up one after a bye week, but stayed in the same spot after winning over UCF.

[u/slyone05]

Beavs got a vote !!!

[u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL → u/slyone05]

BAD DAY TO BE A TREE NEAR A BODY OF WATER

[u/SpiritFingersKitty]

Tell your kids about ranked WF

[u/bptkr13]

Arizona should be ranked. 5-1 and only loss to 8 BYU at BYU.

[u/monty_actual]

We are definitely not a top 5 team right now. That said, Nebraska is definitely a good football team. Glad NU cracked the top 25.

[u/mrsirgrape → u/monty_actual]

Almost feels like they just wanted a top 5 matchup this weekend.

[u/monty_actual → u/mrsirgrape]

Absolutely.

[u/Boomhauer_007]

Look guys Oregon didn’t have their starting QB

And let me tell you nobody shrivels more under pressure than Dante Moore UCLA WOULD HAVE WON THAT SHIT WITH HIM TOO GO BRUINS WOOOOO

Also Oregon state with a vote what a week

[u/Sam_R0707 → u/Boomhauer_007]

The country should all come together and root for Oregon State. What a fun story

[u/SJCitizen]

LSU still being ranked is a joke. Their two biggest wins look less impressive every week too. Clemson and A&M are going to beat best 7-5.

[u/horrorpants]

Kentucky lowkey too low and about damn time Wake Forest is ranked their legit.

[u/Intelligent-Set-3909]

Nebraska should be ranked 

[u/GamerKiller2347 → u/Intelligent-Set-3909]

I agree. There have been a few occasions where a team goes from unranked to ranked after a loss, and I figured this would've been one of those occasions.

However, I'm a bit confused as to why Indiana rose 2 spots. If voters still don't think Nebraska is legit, I figured they also would've dropped Indiana a bit for struggling against an unranked team.

[u/GondorSurvivor]

Cannot believe that Rutgers was snubbed for their by week win. The bias is unbelievable...

[u/CommentJunior9653]

How did Oregon State only get one vote?

[u/Plinnion → u/CommentJunior9653]

Because only one voter watched their game.

[u/bearcock96]

Oregon state got a vote!!!

[u/Fragrant-Helicopter1]

I’d put Northwestern at 20. Nebraska at 25. Indiana is a 7 for me. Need to beat Ohio State to be in Top Five. But winning out is what matters most.

[u/Isthmus11]

Call me crazy, but Tennessee is not a top 15 team. I personally moved them down a few more ranks after barely beating Arkansas

[u/basicbolshevik]

THEY ACTUALLY DID IT GO MF CATS

[u/bigtuuuna]

We absolutely suck and deserve this.

[u/michhoffman]

Miami now has a ranked road win! Keep killing it Wake!

[u/BreezyMcWeasel]

We received votes!

[u/ALStark69]

Good.

WF AND NW RANKED

[u/Finessing2]

‪LSU deadass got zero good wins this year lmao. How are they not unranked.‬