| Rank | Team | Record | Next Opponent | Prior | |
| 1 |  | Ohio State | 10-0, 6-0 | Michigan State | 1 |
| 2 |  | Clemson | 10-0, 7-0 | Wake Forest | 2 |
| 3 |  | Alabama | 9-1, 6-1 | Charleston Southern | 4 |
| 4 |  | Notre Dame | 9-1 | Boston College | 5 |
| 5 |  | Oklahoma State | 10-0, 7-0 | Baylor | 6 |
| 6 |  | Michigan State | 9-1, 5-1 | at Ohio State | 8 |
| 7 |  | Iowa | 10-0, 6-0 | Purdue | 13 |
| 8 |  | Oklahoma | 9-1, 6-1 | TCU | 14 |
| 9 |  | Baylor | 8-1, 5-1 | at Oklahoma State | 3 |
| 10 |  | TCU | 9-1, 6-1 | at Oklahoma | 9 |
| 11 |  | Florida | 9-1, 7-1 | Florida Atlantic | 12 |
| 12 |  | Houston | 10-0, 6-0 | at Connecticut | 15 |
| 13 |  | Stanford | 8-2, 7-1 | California | 7 |
| 14 |  | LSU | 7-2, 4-2 | at Mississippi | 11 |
| 15 |  | North Carolina | 9-1, 6-0 | at Virginia Tech | 16 |
| 16 |  | Utah | 8-2, 5-2 | UCLA | 10 |
| 17 |  | Michigan | 8-2, 5-1 | at Penn State | 18 |
| 18 |  | Florida State | 8-2, 6-2 | Chattanooga | 20 |
| 19 |  | Wisconsin | 8-2, 5-1 | Northwestern | 24 |
| 20 |  | Northwestern | 8-2, 4-2 | at Wisconsin | 21 |
| 21 |  | Navy | 8-1, 6-0 | at Tulsa | NR |
| 22 |  | Mississippi | 7-3, 4-2 | LSU | 25 |
| 23 |  | Mississippi State | 7-3, 3-3 | at Arkansas | 19 |
| 24 |  | UCLA | 7-3, 4-3 | at Utah | 17 |
| 25 |  | USC | 7-3, 5-2 | at Oregon | NR |
