NEW YORK (AP) — Surprising Kansas State has climbed to No. 12 in The Associated Press college football poll, the Wildcats’ best ranking since 2004.
Kansas State improved to 6-0 on Saturday night with a 41-34 comeback victory at Texas Tech and jumped five spots in the rankings released Sunday. It was the fourth straight week coach Bill Snyder’s Wildcats won as underdogs.
The last time Kansas State was ranked this highly was the 2004 preseason poll, when the Wildcats were No. 12.
The top 10 teams in the rankings remained the same after a weekend filled with blowouts. No. 1 LSU received 41 first-place votes, No. 2 Alabama had 11 and No. 3 Oklahoma got six.
The rest of the top 10 was Wisconsin, Boise State (one first-place vote), Oklahoma State, Stanford, Clemson, Oregon and Arkansas.
