| Week | Rank | Rate | Record | SOS | Opponent | Score | Rank Then | Rank Now |
| 0 | 9 | 0.000 | (0,0) | 0.000 | --bye-- |
| 1 | 7 | 0.500 | (1,0) | -0.500 | Jacksonville St | 17 to 10 | 518 | 124 |
| 2 | 40 | 2.015 | (2,0) | 1.015 | NC A&T | 68 to 7 | 97 | 356 |
| 3 | 138 | 0.916 | (2,0) | -0.084 | --bye-- |
| 4 | 45 | 1.634 | (3,0) | 0.634 | North Carolina | 34 to 9 | 74 | 129 |
| 5 | 118 | 1.110 | (3,1) | 0.610 | Kansas St | 20 to 34 | 102 | 66 |
| 6 | 140 | 0.947 | (3,2) | 0.747 | Kansas | 20 to 27 | 62 | 74 |
| 7 | 131 | 1.042 | (3,3) | 1.042 | Cincinnati | 11 to 20 | 27 | 36 |
| 8 | 107 | 1.164 | (4,3) | 1.021 | West Virginia | 45 to 13 | 150 | 97 |
| 9 | 100 | 1.216 | (4,3) | 1.073 | --bye-- |
| 10 | 106 | 1.183 | (4,4) | 1.183 | Baylor | 3 to 30 | 62 | 62 |
| 11 | | | | | Houston | | | 28 |
| 12 | | | | | Texas Tech | | | 20 |
| 13 | | | | | Oklahoma St | | | 160 |
| 14 | | | | | BYU | | | 4 |
| 15 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 16 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 17 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 18 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 19 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 20 | | | | | --bye-- |
| 21 | | | | | --bye-- |