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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Enter Top 25 in Coaches Poll
November 14, 2004 | Football
Nov. 14, 2004
Bowling Green, Ohio - For the third straight year, the BGSU football team is ranked in a major weekly football poll. Riding a seven-game winning streak, BGSU is rated 24th in this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll.
BGSU is a MAC-best 8-2 overall and tied for first place in the league's West Division with a 6-1 mark. The Falcons will battle Toledo, 7-3 and 6-1, in the season finale, November 23 at Toledo's Glass Bowl on ESPN2 at 7 p.m.
In 2003, BGSU finished ranked 23rd in both major weekly polls and also was rated as high as 15th by the Associated Press after spending eight weeks in the polls. In 2002, the Falcons climbed as high as 16th in the coaches poll and was ranked for five weeks. In 1985, BGSU spent one week ranked 20th in the AP poll.
With the Falcons' 56-35 win over Marshall on Saturday, BGSU has now posted eight wins or more in four straight seasons for the first time in school history.
The USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches Top 25 college football coaches'
poll, with number of first-place votes and record in
parentheses, total points and previous ranking:
(Records through November 14, 2004)
TEAM PTS PVS
---- --- ---
1. USC (51) (10-0) 1,514 1
2. OKLAHOMA (6) (10-0) 1,435 2
3. AUBURN (4) (10-0) 1,433 3
4. CALIFORNIA (8-1) 1,311 6
5. TEXAS (9-1) 1,222 7
6. UTAH (10-0) 1,203 8
7. MICHIGAN (9-1) 1,191 9
8. FLORIDA ST (8-2) 999 12
9. WISCONSIN (9-1) 948 4
10. GEORGIA (8-2) 947 5
11. LOUISVILLE (7-1) 880 14
12. BOISE ST (9-0) 827 13
13. MIAMI FLA (7-2) 774 17
14. LSU (7-2) 771 15
15. VIRGINIA TECH (7-2) 688 16
16. TENNESSEE (7-2) 580 18
17. IOWA (8-2) 519 19
18. VIRGINIA (7-2) 501 11
19. BOSTON COLLEGE (7-2) 433 21
20. W. VIRGINIA (7-2) 419 NR
21. ARIZONA ST (8-2) 411 20
22. TEXAS A&M (7-3) 272 23
23. OKLAHOMA ST (7-3) 229 24
24. BOWLING GREEN (8-2) 117 NR
25. TEXAS EL PASO (7-2) 87 NR
Dropped Out: No. 22 Northern Ill, No.25 Texas Tech
Others Receiving Votes: NORTHERN ILL 24, TEXAS TECH 20,
GEORGIA TECH 15, FRESNO ST 9, PURDUE 9, NAVY 6, UCLA 6, UAB
5, MICHIGAN ST 4, FLORIDA 3, PITTSBURGH 3, ALABAMA 2,
MEMPHIS 2, MIAMI OHIO 2, SOUTHERN MISS 2, COLORADO 1, IOWA
ST 1.
