Arizona State moves up to No. 15 in this week’s US LBM Coaches Poll and is now in a four-way tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference. BYU suffers their second loss of the season and drops to No. 20.
Arizona State gave BYU one last chance to win their Big 12 matchup, but the Cougars Hail Mary pass with one second remaining was caught a couple of yards short of the endzone and the Sun Devils took home their fourth straight victory, 28-23.
The top four teams remained the same with Notre Dame moving into the fifth spot thanks to Indiana’s loss to Ohio State. The Hoosiers dropped to No. 10. The Fighting Irish are 10-1 after a dominating victory over then-No. 17 Army, 49-14. The Black Knights lost their first game of the season and drop to No. 22.
Alabama fell for a third time this year and dropped to No. 13. Ole Miss also fell for a third time and descended to No. 16. Likewise for Texas A&M which fell to No. 19
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Rank | School (1st votes) | Points | LW | W-L |
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1 | Oregon (55) | 1,375 | 1 | 11-0 |
2 | Ohio State | 1,318 | 2 | 10-1 |
3 | Texas | 1,267 | 3 | 10-1 |
4 | Penn State | 1,175 | 4 | 10-1 |
5 | Notre Dame | 1,150 | 6 | 10-1 |
6 | Georgia | 1,103 | 8 | 9-2 |
7 | Miami (Fla.) | 1,023 | 10 | 10-1 |
8 | Tennessee | 972 | 11 | 9-2 |
9 | SMU | 917 | 12 | 10-1 |
10 | Indiana | 867 | 5 | 10-1 |
11 | Boise State | 838 | 13 | 10-1 |
12 | Clemson | 780 | 16 | 9-2 |
13 | Alabama | 621 | 7 | 8-3 |
14 | South Carolina | 596 | 19 | 8-3 |
15 | Arizona State | 592 | 22 | 9-2 |
16 | Mississippi | 569 | 9 | 8-3 |
17 | Iowa State | 473 | 21 | 9-2 |
18 | Tulane | 434 | 20 | 9-2 |
19 | Texas A&M | 357 | 14 | 8-3 |
20 | BYU | 329 | 15 | 9-2 |
21 | UNLV | 205 | 23 | 9-2 |
22 | Army | 165 | 17 | 9-1 |
23 | Memphis | 151 | 24 | 9-2 |
24 | Missouri | 148 | NR | 8-3 |
25 | Illinois | 132 | NR | 8-3 |
Dropped out: No. 18 Colorado (8-3); No. 25 Kansas State (8-3).
Others receiving votes: Kansas State (8-3) 124; Colorado (8-3) 115; Duke (8-3) 31; Syracuse (8-3) 19; Louisville (7-4) 8; Louisiana-Lafayette (9-2) 7; Washington State (8-3) 6; LSU (7-4) 3; Baylor (7-4) 1; Georgia Tech (7-4) 1; Iowa (7-4) 1; James Madison (8-3) 1; Miami (Ohio) (7-4) 1.
Tim Albin, Ohio; Major Applewhite, South Alabama; Tim Beck, Coastal Carolina; Mike Bloomgren, Rice; David Braun, Northwestern; Jeff Brohm, Louisville; Fran Brown, Syracuse; Neal Brown, West Virginia; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Jamey Chadwell, Liberty; Bob Chesney, James Madison; Chris Creighton, Eastern Michigan; Sonny Cumbie, Louisiana Tech; Spencer Danielson, Boise State; Ryan Day, Ohio State; Kalen DeBoer, Alabama; Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State; Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri; Mike Elko, Texas A&M; Tony Elliott, Virginia; Jedd Fisch, Washington; James Franklin, Penn State; Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame; Willie Fritz, Houston; Alex Golesh, South Florida; Tyson Helton, Western Kentucky; Mike Houston, East Carolina; Butch Jones, Arkansas State; Brent Key, Georgia Tech; GJ Kinne, Texas State; Chris Klieman, Kansas State; Dan Lanning, Oregon; Rhett Lashlee, SMU; Clark Lea, Vanderbilt; Lance Leipold, Kansas; Pete Lembo, Buffalo; Sean Lewis, San Diego State; Mike Locksley, Maryland; Mike MacIntyre, Florida International; Gus Malzahn, Central Florida; Chuck Martin, Miami (Ohio); Derek Mason, Middle Tennessee; Joey McGuire, Texas Tech; Bronco Mendenhall, New Mexico; Jeff Monken, Army; Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh; Ken Niumatalolo, San Jose State; Barry Odom, UNLV; Gerad Parker, Troy; Brent Pry, Virginia Tech; Kirby Smart, Georgia; Mark Stoops, Kentucky; Jon Sumrall, Tulane; Lance Taylor, Western Michigan; Jeff Traylor, Texas-San Antonio.