{"id":899515,"date":"2026-09-21T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:12:15","slug":"sept-20-football-national-rankings-lsusports-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899515\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 20 Football National Rankings – LSUsports.net"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 US LBM Coaches Top 25<\/p>\n

Sept. 20, 2026<\/p>\n

Rank
\nTeam (First-Place Votes)
\nPoints
\nPrevious<\/p>\n

1
\nTexas (46)
\n1807
\n1<\/p>\n

2
\nGeorgia (16)
\n1742
\n2<\/p>\n

3
\nNotre Dame (2)
\n1636
\n3<\/p>\n

4
\nIndiana (9)
\n1613
\n4<\/p>\n

5
\nMiami (Fla.) (1)
\n1552
\n5<\/p>\n

6
\nOle Miss
\n1501
\n9<\/p>\n

7
\nOhio State
\n1473
\n6<\/p>\n

8
\nAlabama
\n1309
\n10<\/p>\n

9
\nBYU
\n1089
\n13<\/p>\n

10
\nTexas Tech
\n1079
\n12<\/p>\n

11
\nLSU
\n1067
\n7<\/p>\n

12
\nUSC
\n1057
\n11<\/p>\n

13
\nTennessee
\n833
\n14<\/p>\n

14
\nPenn State
\n814
\n15<\/p>\n

15
\nUtah
\n743
\n17<\/p>\n

16
\nOregon
\n594
\n18<\/p>\n

17
\nIowa
\n580
\n20<\/p>\n

18
\nMichigan
\n545
\n19<\/p>\n

19
\nLouisville
\n519
\nNR<\/p>\n

20
\nTexas A&M
\n447
\n8<\/p>\n

21
\nMissouri
\n382
\n22<\/p>\n

22
\nFlorida
\n370
\nNR<\/p>\n

23
\nWashington
\n251
\n24<\/p>\n

24
\nOklahoma
\n213
\n21<\/p>\n

25
\nSMU
\n162
\n16<\/p>\n

Others Receiving Votes
Houston 116; Mississippi State 114; Duke 70; West Virginia 55; Kentucky 54; Oklahoma State 36; Pittsburgh 35; Virginia Tech 30; Vanderbilt 29; Boise State 29; Tulsa 20; UCLA 18; Kansas State 18; Western Michigan 17; Nebraska 11; North Dakota State 8; Northwestern 4; Clemson 3; Massachusetts 2; James Madison 2; Arizona 1.<\/p>\n

List Of Voters
The US LBM Board of Coaches for the 2026 season: Tim Albin, Charlotte; Blake Anderson, Southern Mississippi; Dave Aranda<\/a>, Baylor; David Braun, Northwestern; Jeff Brohm, Louisville; Fran Brown, Syracuse; Neal Brown, North Texas; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Jamey Chadwell, Liberty; Curt Cignetti, Indiana; Sonny Cumbie, Louisiana Tech; Spencer Danielson, Boise State; Ryan Day, Ohio State; Kalen DeBoer, Alabama; Manny Diaz, Duke; Jake Dickert, Wake Forest; Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri; Sonny Dykes, TCU; Jason Eck, New Mexico; Mike Elko, Texas A&M; Tony Elliott, Virginia; Matt Entz, Fresno State; Jedd Fisch, Washington; James Franklin, Virginia Tech; Willie Fritz, Houston; Scott Frost, Central Florida; Tony Gibson, Marshall; Alex Golesh, Auburn; Will Hall, Tulane; Blake Harrell, East Carolina; John Hauser, Ohio; Clay Helton, Georgia Southern; Tyson Helton, Western Kentucky; Charles Huff, Memphis; Butch Jones, Arkansas State; KC Keeler, Temple; Charles Kelly, Jacksonville State; Brent Key, Georgia Tech; Zach Kittley, Florida Atlantic; Collin Klein, Kansas State; Tre Lamb, Tulsa; Rhett Lashlee, SMU; Clark Lea, Vanderbilt; Lance Leipold, Kansas; Pete Lembo, Buffalo; Sean Lewis, San Diego State; Dowell Loggains, Appalachian State; Joey McGuire, Texas Tech; Jeff Monken, Army; Kirby Moore, Washington State; Eric Morris, Oklahoma State; Dan Mullen, UNLV; Billy Napier, James Madison; Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh; Brian Newberry, Navy; Ken Niumatalolo, San Jose State; Barry Odom, Purdue; Tim Polasek, North Dakota State; Tavita Pritchard, Stanford; Ricky Rahne, Old Dominion; Matt Rhule, Nebraska; Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia; Morgan Scalley, Utah; JaMarcus Shephard, Oregon State; Kirby Smart, Georgia; Will Stein, Kentucky; Jon Sumrall, Florida; Lance Taylor, Western Michigan; Jeff Traylor, Texas-San Antonio; Scotty Walden, Texas-El Paso; Kyle Whittingham, Michigan; Casey Woods, Missouri State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 US LBM Coaches Top 25 Sept. 20, 2026 Rank Team (First-Place Votes) Points Previous 1 Texas (46)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-899515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}