No. 13 Alabama is out of the top 10 of The AP college football poll for the first time since 2015, and Georgia remained No. 1 on Sunday. This week, the opening of regular season conference play.
Cameron Ward passed for 327 yards and accounted for five first-half touchdowns, and No. 23 Washington State breezed to a 64-21 victory over FCS member Northern Colorado.
Jake Dickert would still like to wait until six weeks into the season before there are any rankings of college football teams. Washington State validation that came with the Cougars cracking the AP Top 25 following their upset victory over Wisconsin.
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.
Michael Penix Jr. and the No. 8 Washington and traveling to East Lancing to visits Michigan State on Saturday. Both teams are 2-0. Washington is favored by 16 1/2 points.
A judge has granted a request by Oregon State and Washington State for a temporary restraining order to prevent departing Pac-12 schools from holding meetings.
Texas jumped seven spots to No. 4 in The Associated Press college football poll after beating Alabama, and the Pac-12 became just the second conference to place as many as eight teams in an AP Top 25.
Stanford has not given up on getting an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its fellow Pac-4 members wait and hope to rebuild their plundered league.
The past 18 months have been a whirlwind for Washington State coach Jake Dickert and the entire Cougars program. Washington State is hoping for some stability this season even as its future conference affiliation remains up in the air.