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2026 Week 5 Northwestern Wildcats Rankings

Main Poll Voters

User Rank Reason
srs_house 15
ryseing 17
MADBuc49 18 +1
Maladroit44 19 I think if CFB voters were more comfortable with ranking teams after a close loss like CBB voters are, Northwestern would absolutely be in this week. They were decent last year, looked really good in their first two games, and if anything looked *better* in a one-score road loss at the reigning national champs with questionable officiating. But they'll lose votes for it in most rankings, because people get SEC war flashbacks whenever they hear the phrase "quality loss".
sirgippy 19 GippyRank expected rank: 17.7. Central 80% interval: 5–36. Top-25 probability: 79%.
Striker743 19 Up 5 - tough loss at #3
Tarmacked 19 Look at that, Northwestern and Chip Kelly had some fire in them! I don't think this in punishable territory, feels like the 20's boundaries are the right spot.
TimeBroken 19
TheZachster 20
Versigot 20 Quality loss against Indiana and a big win over Colorado, the nerds in Evanston are doing better than we thought.
Bereft13 21 Power: 16, SoR: 41; LW: NR (29)
Blazeth 21
owlalwaysloveyew 22
ShogunAshoka 22
redwave2505 23
tdoger 23
DarkLegend64 25
Justanother_0 25
justsaynotoreddit 25
Klaassy23 25
noodlethebear 25
RheagarTargaryen 25

Provisional Poll Voters

User Rank Reason
drewscottt 13
EdselFordEdsel 13
IWieldTheFlameOfAnor 17 217
solarsnail6 17
Klightgrove 18
LookAtMaxwell 19 Lost at Indiana by 6 and beat Colorado 41-7; the score model rates it highly.
OG_Felwinter 19
CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY 20
JackWK_Gaming 20
josh55134 20
NNul 20 Destroyed Colo, can hang with Ind.
mathwrath55 21
Ethanol-Muffins 22
ChiTrojan2 23
jibberishdhyukl 23
mr_longfellow_deeds 23
Star_Wars_Sith 23
Yelich04 23 NR (The rare lose and enter the Top 25. Northwestern look good. The wins over South Dakota State and Colorado are impressive, and that performance against Indiana was extremely gutsy, and there were points in that game where they looked like the better team. They deserve to be ranked.)
Midnight-Mustang 24
sportstrap 24
Underground_Bread 24
DillyDillySzn 25
KevinDoesSports 25 Stayed close with the defending national champions, destroyed Colorado, they look very good right now.
Rhizical 25
saquad69 25
Blue = Human
Red = Computer
Green = Hybrid

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Normal = after the AP poll was published

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