TTU Breaks Into Coaches Poll Top 10 After Dominant 3-0 Start

The poll comes out every week during the regular season, built from ballots submitted by head coaches across the Football Bowl Subdivision. Each coach ranks a full top 25, with the number one team earning 25 points and the list working its way down to one point for 25th place. Every school's points get added up across all submitted ballots to produce the final ranking. Cracking the top 10 means Tech is showing up near the top of a lot of coaches' individual lists, not just a few.

For a program and a fan base that has spent years chasing this kind of early-season respect, three straight wins landing Tech inside the top 10 is the kind of thing that gets talked about at every tailgate, from the Jones AT&T Stadium parking lots to bars along 19th Street. It puts a target on the Red Raiders heading into the rest of conference play, and it raises the stakes on every game left on the schedule.

A 3-0 record got Tech into the room with the nation's best teams. What happens next decides how long they stay there.