UCLA unranked in AP poll for first time since Jim Mora’s first season

This is a strange time for the Pac-12.

Stanford, the back-to-back conference champion, has two losses and is ranked No. 23. Arizona and Utah — which entered the season unranked since 2012 and 2010, respectively — are 16th and 20th.

And then there’s UCLA, which just two weeks ago was still a top-ten team.

For the first time since third-year head coach Jim Mora’s debut season, the Bruins have fallen out of the Associated Press completely. A 42-30 loss to Oregon on national television — one in which the Ducks led by as much as 32 — dispelled what little hope UCLA had left for making the inaugural College Football Playoff, dropping the Bruins from No. 18 to “receiving votes.”

They now sit one spot outside the top-25 rankings, with 110 points to No. 25 Marshall’s 148.

UCLA hadn’t been absent from the AP poll since Jan. 8, 2013, the final set of rankings following the 2012 season. The Bruins ended that year with a 49-26 loss to Baylor in the Holiday Bowl and dropped out from No. 17.

The full rankings below:

1. Mississippi State (45), 6-0
2. Florida State (12), 6-0
3. Ole Miss (3), 6-0
4. Baylor, 6-0
5. Notre Dame, 6-0
6. Auburn, 5-1
7. Alabama, 5-1
8. Michigan State, 5-1
9. Oregon, 5-1
10. Georgia, 5-1
11. Oklahoma, 5-1
12. TCU, 4-1
13. Ohio State, 4-1
14. Kansas State, 4-1
15. Oklahoma State, 5-1
16. Arizona, 5-1
17. Arizona State, 4-1
18. East Carolina, 5-1
19. Nebraska, 5-1
20. Utah, 4-1
21. Texas A&M, 5-2
22. USC, 4-2
23. Stanford, 4-2
24. Clemson, 4-2
25. Marshall, 6-0