Haley SawyerSouthern California News Group (Los Angeles, CA)
Twitter: @haleymsawyer
About: Haley Sawyer covers UCLA and high school sports for the Southern California News Group. She’s a Los Angeles transplant who has lived most of her life in Pennsylvania, where she got her start covering Pittsburgh high school sports and college hockey. Sawyer graduated from Robert Morris University in 2015 with a B.A. in communication. When she's not writing, Haley is usually at a boxing gym, ballet studio or teaching journalism at Cal State Northridge.


Ballot Score

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Oct 12, 2025Week 8 Rankings for Haley Sawyer
1Ohio State (50)
6-0Actual: 1
Highest: 1 - 50 Voters
Lowest: 4 - Koki Riley
1631
Points
2Miami (FL) (13)
5-0Actual: 2
Highest: 1 - 13 Voters
Lowest: 3 - 15 Voters
1582
Points
3Indiana (3)
6-0Actual: 3
Highest: 1 - 3 Voters
Lowest: 5 - Ralph Russo
1531
Points
4Ole Miss
6-0Actual: 5
Highest: 4 - 10 Voters
Lowest: 12 - Koki Riley
1331
Points
5Texas A&M
6-0Actual: 4
Highest: 3 - 7 Voters
Lowest: 6 - 7 Voters
1433
Points
6Oregon
5-1Actual: 8
Highest: 6 - 8 Voters
Lowest: 12 - Chad Bishop
1175
Points
7Alabama
5-1Actual: 6
Highest: 4 - 8 Voters
Lowest: 9 - 2 Voters
1315
Points
8Texas Tech
6-0Actual: 7
Highest: 4 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 11 - Spencer Ripchik
1266
Points
9Georgia
5-1Actual: 9
Highest: 5 - Pete Yanity
Lowest: 12 - Dylan Sinn
1148
Points
10LSU
5-1Actual: 10
Highest: 6 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 18 - Sean Reider
1012
Points
11Tennessee
5-1Actual: 11
Highest: 8 - David Jablonski
Lowest: 16 - 3 Voters
939
Points
12Georgia Tech
6-0Actual: 12
Highest: 6 - Stephen Means
Lowest: 25 - Koki Riley
904
Points
13Notre Dame
4-2Actual: 13
Highest: 7 - Kirk Kenney
Lowest: 21 - Randy Johnson
793
Points
14BYU
6-0Actual: 15
Highest: 10 - Stephen Means
Lowest: NR - Koki Riley
655
Points
15Missouri
5-1Actual: 16
Highest: 8 - Spencer Ripchik
Lowest: 22 - 2 Voters
649
Points
16Virginia
5-1Actual: 18
Highest: 12 - Kirk Bohls
Lowest: NR - Koki Riley
521
Points
17Vanderbilt
5-1Actual: 17
Highest: 13 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 24 - 4 Voters
547
Points

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18Illinois
5-2Actual: 26
Highest: 17 - 2 Voters
Lowest: NR - 40 Voters
113
Points
19USC
5-1Actual: 20
Highest: 13 - Koki Riley
Lowest: NR - 1 Voters
361
Points
20South Florida
5-1Actual: 19
Highest: 13 - Ian Kress
Lowest: NR - 1 Voters
398
Points
21Memphis
6-0Actual: 22
Highest: 12 - Stephen Means
Lowest: NR - 7 Voters
285
Points
22Utah
5-1Actual: 23
Highest: 13 - 2 Voters
Lowest: NR - 7 Voters
261
Points

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23Oklahoma
5-1Actual: 14
Highest: 9 - Pat Welter
Lowest: 23 - 2 Voters
786
Points
24Michigan
4-2Actual: 27
Highest: 17 - Keith Farmer
Lowest: NR - 43 Voters
73
Points
25Cincinnati
5-1Actual: 24
Highest: 17 - 3 Voters
Lowest: NR - 13 Voters
184
Points
Ranked Teams Not on Ballot: 21-Texas25-Nebraska