Following their win over Illinois Saturday, the Iowa Hawkeyes received a No. 17 ranking in both the AP and Amway Coaches polls. The Hawkeyes jumped five places in the AP poll and six in the Coaches poll over last week's ranking; only Michigan, which blew out then-no. 13 Northwestern Saturday, got a bigger boost from the pollsters.
| AP | Coaches | Massey | |
| 1 | Ohio State (27) | Ohio State (47) | TCU |
| 2 | Baylor (13) | Baylor (8) | Florida |
| 3 | TCU (3) | TCU (5) | Utah |
| 4 | Utah (16) | Michigan State (1) | Clemson |
| 5 | Clemson (1) | LSU (1) | Michigan |
| 6 | LSU | Clemson | Ohio State |
| 7 | Michigan State | Utah (1) | Texas A&M |
| 8 | Florida State | Florida State | Baylor |
| 9 | Texas A&M (1) | Alabama | Alabama |
| 10 | Alabama | Texas A&M | Notre Dame |
| 11 | Florida | Florida | LSU |
| 12 | Michigan | Ole Miss | Florida State |
| 13 | Ole Miss | Notre Dame | Oklahoma State |
| 14 | Notre Dame | Michigan | Stanford |
| 15 | Stanford | Oklahoma State | Iowa |
| 16 | Oklahoma State | Stanford | Northwestern |
| 17 | Iowa | Iowa | Oklahoma State |
| 18 | UCLA | UCLA | Ole Miss |
| 19 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma | UCLA |
| 20 | Northwestern | Boise State | Boise State |
| 21 | Boise State | Northwestern | Michigan State |
| 22 | Toledo | Memphis | California |
| 23 | California | California | Toledo |
| 24 | Houston | Duke | Temple |
| 25 | Duke | Toledo | USC |
Iowa leapfrogged idle UCLA in both polls and Cal in the coaches poll (the Hawkeyes were already ahead of the Golden Bears in the AP).