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Kansas State jumps to #16 in Amway Coaches Poll

We respectfully note that we predicted this last night, and you all doubted us.

Hey, K-State is ranked Tyler Lockett!
Hey, K-State is ranked Tyler Lockett!
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Chaos Saturday has benefitted the Kansas State Wildcats greatly in today's coaches poll, released this morning. The Wildcats leapt six spots from #22 to #16, passing over the likes of LSU, Wisconsin, BYU, USC, Nebraska, Stanford, UCLA -- all losers this week -- and passing East Carolina as well. Yes, that's eight teams; TCU (jumping to #12) and Arizona (to #13) bypassed K-State on their way up after big wins.

The pack chasing Florida State all fell six or seven spots; Alabama is now 7th, Oklahoma 9th, and Oregon 11th. The big winners this week other than Arizona and TCU: Auburn, Baylor, and Ole Miss moved up to fill the vacuum left by the departing top five teams, while Mississippi State moved up 8 spots, and have now risen 23 spots in just two weeks. Oklahoma State and Arizona State both got decent bumps by failing to lose, and unbeaten Georgia Tech finally enters the poll for the first time. The only unbeaten team in FBS not in the top 25 is Marshall; they're sitting in 26th, waiting for their chance.

We'll have the AP poll in a couple of hours, which -- as is always the case following chaos -- will probably look quite a bit different.

RANK TEAM POINTS FIRST LW DELTA
1 Florida State Seminoles 1505 44 2 +1
2 Auburn Tigers 1477 16 5 +3
3 Baylor Bears 1372 1 6 +3
4 Mississippi Rebels 1308 0 17 +7
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1269 0 8 +3
6 Mississippi State Bulldogs 1237 0 14 +8
7 Alabama Crimson Tide 1065 0 1 -6
8 Michigan State Spartans 1062 0 10 +2
9 Oklahoma Sooners 929 0 3 -6
10 Georgia Bulldogs 898 0 12 +2
11 Oregon Ducks 897 0 4 -7
12 Texas Christian Horned Frogs 865 0 25 +13
13 Arizona Wildcats 743 0 29 +16
14 Texas A&M Aggies 706 0 7 -7
15 Ohio State Buckeyes 645 0 18 +3
16 Kansas State Wildcats 567 0 22 +6
17 UCLA Bruins 483 0 9 -8
18 Oklahoma State Cowboys 479 0 23 +5
19 East Carolina Pirates 451 0 21 +2
20 Arizona State Sun Devils 354 0 24 +4
21 Nebraska Cornhuskers 261 0 17 -4
22 Stanford Cardinal 241 0 13 -9
23 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 240 0 31 +8
24 Missouri Tigers 182 0 26 +1
25 Clemson Tigers 138 0 28 +3
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES

Marshall 98; Utah 80; Louisiana State 75; Louisville 36; Wisconsin 36; Southern California 28;
Brigham Young 16; Minnesota 13; Duke 12; Washington 12; Kentucky 11; West Virginia 8;
Iowa 6; Arkansas 6; Memphis 5; California 4; Penn State 3; Rutgers 2.