[81alum]

The AP poll came out before our loss last night and left us at 18

The Coaches poll came out after our loss and put 6-5 Stanford at 24.

The coaches have SO much respect for Tara that they are bending over backwords to give us a chance not to fall out of the rankings. 

We will have the results of the Tennessee game before the next polls come out.  I presume that a loss--particularly a bad loss--will knock us out of the top 25 in both polls, but the coaches result has me scratching my head. 

I am trying to figure out the last time we have dropped out of the polls.  In 2014-15 we got down to 19th.  No season before that one was remotely that bad unless you go back to 2000-2001 when we were 19-11, and the polling data is not searchable that far back. 

So, unless I am mistaken somehow, we have been ranked every week since at least 2001, and possibly since 1987 when Tara was first building the team at  14-14. 

[81alum]

The AP poll came out before our loss last night and left us at 18

The Coaches poll came out after our loss and put 6-5 Stanford at 24.

The coaches have SO much respect for Tara that they are bending over backwords to give us a chance not to fall out of the rankings. 

We will have the results of the Tennessee game before the next polls come out.  I presume that a loss--particularly a bad loss--will knock us out of the top 25 in both polls, but the coaches result has me scratching my head. 

I am trying to figure out the last time we have dropped out of the polls.  In 2014-15 we got down to 19th.  No season before that one was remotely that bad unless you go back to 2000-2001 when we were 19-11, and the polling data is not searchable that far back. 

So, unless I am mistaken somehow, we have been ranked every week since at least 2001, and possibly since 1987 when Tara was first building the team at  14-14.