Rank | Team | Record | Next Opponent | Prior | |
1 | ![]() | Ohio State | 7-0, 3-0 | at Rutgers | 1 |
2 | ![]() | Michigan State | 7-0, 3-0 | Indiana | 2 |
3 | ![]() | TCU | 6-0, 3-0 | bye | 3 |
4 | ![]() | Baylor | 6-0, 3-0 | Iowa State | 4 |
5 | ![]() | Clemson | 6-0, 3-0 | at Miami | 5 |
6 | ![]() | LSU | 6-0, 4-0 | Western Kentucky | 7 |
7 | ![]() | Alabama | 6-1, 3-1 | Tennessee | 6 |
8 | ![]() | Utah | 6-0, 3-0 | Arizona State | 8 |
9 | ![]() | Florida State | 6-0, 3-0 | at Georgia Tech | 9 |
10 | ![]() | Notre Dame | 6-1 | bye | 12 |
11 | ![]() | Stanford | 5-1, 4-0 | Washington | 17 |
12 | ![]() | Oklahoma State | 6-0, 3-0 | Kansas | 16 |
13 | ![]() | Florida | 6-1, 4-1 | bye | 13 |
14 | ![]() | Memphis | 6-0, 2-0 | at Tulsa | 21 |
15 | ![]() | Oklahoma | 5-1, 2-1 | Texas Tech | 19 |
16 | ![]() | Iowa | 7-0, 3-0 | bye | 22 |
17 | ![]() | Texas A&M | 5-1, 2-1 | at Mississippi | 14 |
18 | ![]() | Toledo | 6-0, 3-0 | at Massachusetts | 20 |
19 | ![]() | Mississippi | 5-2, 2-1 | Texas A&M | 10 |
20 | ![]() | Duke | 5-1, 2-0 | at Virginia Tech | 23 |
21 | ![]() | Michigan | 5-2, 2-1 | bye | 15 |
22 | ![]() | California | 5-1, 2-1 | at UCLA | NR |
23 | ![]() | Temple | 6-0, 3-0 | at East Carolina | 25 |
24 | ![]() | Houston | 6-0, 3-0 | at UCF | NR |
25 | ![]() | UCLA | 4-2, 1-2 | California | 11 |