AP Top 25

No. 23 Washington State will host Northern Colorado on Saturday. It's a bridge game for the Cougars between last week's upset of Wisconsin and next week's Pac-12 Conference opener against No. 16 Oregon State.

For the second straight year, there was a record number of teams that started the season ranked in the AP Top 25 and finished it unranked.

TCU’s Sonny Dykes is The Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading the Horned Frogs to the College Football Playoff in his first season with the school.

Purdue moved up three spots in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll released on Monday,

No. 24 Oregon State returns to the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2013. But the Beavers are a 4 1/2-point underdog at Washington on Friday night.

Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The AP college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years. Two points separate the Crimson Tide from the Bulldogs.