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 |