After achieving bowl eligibility on the road against the Michigan State Spartans with a 21-14 victory on Saturday night in East Lansing, the Washington Huskies will end the season against a pair of opponents ranked in the top 15 of the US LBM Coaches Poll.
Following a 27-13 win over the USC Trojans, coach Curt Cignetti's Indiana Hoosiers will come into Husky Stadium ranked as the No. 5 team in the country, standing pat in the rankings after a victory at home.
After that matchup on Saturday, November 21, which will be played at 12:30 p.m. PT, Jedd Fisch's team will head south to face off with coach Dan Lanning's Oregon Ducks, who jumped up five spots to No. 14 and the edge of College Football Playoff contention after a 31-7 win over the Michigan
Wolverines.
Elsewhere on Washington's schedule from what has been a largely disappointing season for Fisch's team, the Iowa Hawkeyes, who are the only team to beat the Huskies by more than one possession this season, lept up two spots to No. 13 with a 28-7 win over Purdue, while the Trojans dropped five spots to No. 19.
While the Huskies haven't done anything to deserve a spot anywhere close to the top 25, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who snapped a four-game losing streak with a 31-0 win over Rutgers, curiously received 12 votes in the poll, even after a disastrous 17-10 loss to Washington at home on Halloween night.
Here's how the rest of the top 25 shaped up.
Published November 15, 2026
Schools Dropped Out
No. 23 SMU; No. 24 South Carolina; No. 25 New Mexico;
Others Receiving Votes
Liberty 87; Memphis 70; New Mexico 48; Missouri 47; SMU 39; UTSA 38; South Carolina 35; Northwestern 17; Air Force 14; Nebraska 12; Louisiana Tech 12; North Texas 11; Oklahoma 8; Illinois 8; Auburn 7; Oklahoma State 5; Toledo 2; Virginia 1; North Dakota State 1;
The US LBM Board of Coaches for the 2026 season: Tim Albin, Charlotte; Blake Anderson, Southern Mississippi; Dave Aranda, 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; Matt Drinkall, Central Michigan; 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; Jay Sawvel, Wyoming; 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.
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