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Oregon Ducks move up in US LBM Coaches Poll over bye week

https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/10/04/oregon-football-us-lbm-coaches-poll-bye-week/92090925007/

How does this happen? Missouri absolutely throttled Florida. Very hard to take any of these ranking seriously. They are a joke!

AP Top 25 Poll Reaction After Multiple Ranked Losses

How did the AP Top 25 Poll shake out with the month of October arriving?

AP Top 25 Poll Week 5 Results

1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Notre Dame
4. Miami
5. Ohio State
6. Alabama
7. Indiana
8. BYU
9. Ole Miss
10. LSU
11. Texas Tech
12. Utah
13. Oregon
14. Missouri
15. Tennessee
16. Florida
17. Mississippi State
18. Oklahoma State
19. USC
20. Iowa
21. UCLA
22. Houston
23. Boise State
24. SMU
25. Pittsburgh

Oregon Ducks On SI

AP Top 25 Poll Reaction After Multiple Ranked Losses

After another exciting weekend of college football, the AP Top 25 Poll has shuffled teams around the rankings. Week 5 of the college football season produced mu

ESPN's FPI Strength of Record Rankings Through Week 5 -

B1G Top 25 - 10 Indiana/ 11 Ohio State/ 12 Wisconsin/ 16 Iowa/ 19 Northwestern/ 20 UCLA/ 23 Oregon - UCLA up 1 from its AP No. 21 ranking and Oregon down 10 from its AP No. 13 ranking.

UCLA has defeated 3 Power 4 opponents and did not play an FCS team OOC.

Other B1G Teams - 26 Nebraska/ 27 USC/ 33 Minnesota/ 54 Michigan/

64 Purdue/ 66 Penn State/ 70 Michigan State/ 80 UW/ 88 Maryland/

101 Illinois/ 129 Rutgers

30 Boise State/ 34 Oklahoma State

https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume

UCLA at #12

Oregon MIA

AP College Football Poll 2026 Week 7 Rankings Released wi...

Georgia is the new overwhelming choice for the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll following a chaotic Saturday of action.

Being unranked we stay out of the ESPN spotlight which I think is a very good thing for now.

11 minutes ago, Santa Rosa Duck said:

UCLA at #12

Oregon MIA

AP College Football Poll 2026 Week 7 Rankings Released wi...

Georgia is the new overwhelming choice for the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll following a chaotic Saturday of action.

Read it. Briefly weep. Don't lose sleep. Beat the bleep out of the Huskers!

8 P4 Teams are undefeated through Week 6. SI predicts that Indiana and UCLA, while noting that Nico is likely lost for the season, will not lose a game before the B1G Conference Championship game.

Both the Bruins vs. Wisconsin, and Indiana vs. Ohio State could lose on Saturday. Indiana is +3.5, and UCLA is -3.5.

SP+ has Ohio State ranked No. 1, UGA is second, Indiana 5th, Oregon 12th, Nebraska 14th, Northwestern 17th, UCLA 18th, USC 21st, Michigan 23rd, Iowa 24th, and Wisconsin is ranked 34th.

No loss for UGA is predicted before the SEC Championship game. I agree.

And a Happy NO L is predicted for 15-0 Notre Dame. I think undefeated Miami behind Baby J will defeat undefeated ND in front of TDJ.

If Mario doesn't trip up and the team doesn't commit game-changing penalties, I think Miami has a chance of duplicating Indiana's record in 2025-26, finally winning an ACC title and finishing 16-0 this season with a champ game win over Georgia.

With a road loss at Louisville, I have no idea why SMU is ranked 24th. And it took ranked No. 21 Wake Forest 2 OTs to defeat Purdue. Nebraska, instead of at least one of these two ACC teams, should be ranked. Wisconsin also has a case to be in the Top 25.

In the AP Poll, Wisconsin is ranked 26th, Oregon 27th, and Nebraska 28th.

Three B12 teams are undefeated because of weak schedules. Texas Tech does not have a ranked opponent left on the schedule. I agree that BYU will lose to Notre Dame, -11.5, on Saturday.

SI

Predicting When College Football’s Nine Undefeated Teams...

From James Madison to Indiana, here’s when college football’s remaining undefeated teams could take a loss for the first time.

SI's Pat Forde predicts that Indiana will defeat Ohio State but UCLA will lose to Wisconsin.

SI

Forde-Yard Dash: Five College Football Week 7 Games With...

Ohio State–Indiana and Notre Dame–BYU headline a consequential weekend that could reshape the landscape.