For the first time since 2018, Syracuse football finishes the season ranked inside the Top 25. SU checks in at #20 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the season. Syracuse finished 10-3 under Fran Brown in his first season as head coach at Syracuse.

Ohio State leads the coaches’ final top 25. It is followed by No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 3 Texas, No. 4 Oregon and No. 5 Penn State. Four of those five top teams were college playoff semifinalists. Oregon, which fell in the quarterfinal to Ohio State, boasted the year’s best regular-season resume.

It's too bad for Memphis football fans that Gus Malzahn is no longer the coach of UCF. Malzahn had the Tigers ranked higher than any other coach in the final US LBM Coaches Poll released on Tuesday. But he left to become the offensive coordinator at Florida State,