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Haley SawyerSouthern California News Group (Los Angeles, CA)
E-mail: hsawyer@scng.com
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.


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Oct 18, 2026Week 7 Rankings for Haley Sawyer
1Miami (FL) (40)
6-0Actual: 1
Highest: 1 - 40 Voters
Lowest: 6 - Javon Edmonds
1697
Points
2Ohio State (9)
6-1Actual: 3
Highest: 1 - 9 Voters
Lowest: 6 - Brian Fonseca
1649
Points
3BYU (20)
6-0Actual: 2
Highest: 1 - 20 Voters
Lowest: 4 - 2 Voters
1675
Points
4Georgia
6-1Actual: 5
Highest: 3 - 3 Voters
Lowest: 11 - 2 Voters
1382
Points
5Notre Dame
6-1Actual: 4
Highest: 3 - Koki Riley
Lowest: 12 - Chris Murray
1395
Points
6Indiana
6-1Actual: 6
Highest: 3 - Javon Edmonds
Lowest: 11 - Chris Murray
1370
Points
7Ole Miss
5-1Actual: 7
Highest: 3 - Brian Howell
Lowest: 12 - 3 Voters
1360
Points
8Texas Tech (1)
6-0Actual: 8
Highest: 1 - Chris Murray
Lowest: 13 - Kirk Bohls
1336
Points
9Tennessee
6-1Actual: 11
Highest: 5 - Chris Carter
Lowest: 14 - Jon Wilner
1151
Points
10Utah
6-0Actual: 10
Highest: 4 - Brian Fonseca
Lowest: 17 - Koki Riley
1153
Points
11UCLA
6-0Actual: 9
Highest: 3 - Stephen Means
Lowest: 15 - 2 Voters
1159
Points
12Alabama
5-2Actual: 13
Highest: 10 - 3 Voters
Lowest: 21 - Stephen Means
870
Points
13Kentucky
6-1Actual: 12
Highest: 8 - 4 Voters
Lowest: 19 - Kirk Kenney
932
Points
14Houston
6-1Actual: 14
Highest: 10 - Rece Davis
Lowest: 21 - 2 Voters
785
Points
15Iowa
5-1Actual: 15
Highest: 10 - Stephen Means
Lowest: NR - 1 Voters
747
Points
16USC
6-1Actual: 16
Highest: 12 - Henry Greenstein
Lowest: NR - 5 Voters
592
Points

EXTREME PICK

This pick is 5+ spots from the actual ranking.
17Missouri
5-2Actual: 22
Highest: 15 - Pat Welter
Lowest: NR - 17 Voters
290
Points
18LSU
5-2Actual: 18
Highest: 12 - Nick Jacobs
Lowest: NR - 4 Voters
529
Points
19Florida
5-2Actual: 20
Highest: 14 - 3 Voters
Lowest: NR - 8 Voters
355
Points
20Texas
4-2Actual: 19
Highest: 12 - Pete Yanity
Lowest: NR - 2 Voters
440
Points
21Wake Forest
6-1Actual: 17
Highest: 10 - Dylan Sinn
Lowest: 25 - Chelsie Brown
574
Points
22Boise State
5-1Actual: 21
Highest: 14 - Ian Kress
Lowest: NR - 9 Voters
295
Points
23SMU
5-1Actual: 23
Highest: 17 - 4 Voters
Lowest: NR - 12 Voters
265
Points
24Northwestern
5-1Actual: 24
Highest: 15 - Stephen Means
Lowest: NR - 5 Voters
254
Points
25Oklahoma State
4-2Actual: 26
Highest: 18 - 3 Voters
Lowest: NR - 41 Voters
128
Points
Ranked Teams Not on Ballot: 25-Arizona