No Change in Top 10; Cougars No. 12
Florida and Penn State held steady at 1-2, the top 10 remained unchanged and undefeated Oklahoma State cracked the Associated Press’ Top 25 for the first time in nine years.
The Cowboys (5-0), with a 42-16 victory over Texas, jumped into the rankings at No. 20--their first appearance since finishing No. 11 in the 1988 final poll.
Washington State (5-0) climbed to No. 12 in the AP poll, the Cougars’ highest ranking in 39 years.
The hard-fought 24-13 victory at Oregon on Saturday impressed poll voters more than the Cougars’ 58-0 victory over Boise State the week before. The Cougars stayed at No. 15 after the Boise State victory.
Alabama, which lost 40-34 in overtime to Kentucky, dropped out of the Top 25 for the first time in six years. The Crimson Tide (3-2) was last unranked in the third week of the 1991 season.
No. 24 Colorado (2-2) barely kept alive its streak of appearing in consecutive polls at 143, second to Nebraska’s 265 in a row.
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