Best of the West College Football Top 25: Oregon Ducks look like Clemson, while Pac-12 is starting to resemble ACC. And not in a good way.

The bully quality for the Pac-12? Oregon conscionable mightiness beryllium the caller Clemson. Less good? The remainder of the league is starting to earnestly lucifer the ACC. And not successful a bully way.

The Ducks (3-0), 48-7 winners implicit Stony Brook this past weekend, stay the unanimous No. 1 successful the latest installment of The Denver Post’s Best of the West College Football Top 25.

But for the remainder of the Pac-12, and for assemblage shot teams on the Front Range, Week 3 was a mixed bag. While post-Clay Helton USC, Washington and Stanford each won big, the circuit went 0-4 collectively, head-to-head, against the Big Ten (0-1, acknowledgment to CU getting stomped astatine location by Minnesota), the Big Sky (0-1, with Northern Arizona winning astatine Arizona) and the Mountain West (Fresno State implicit UCLA, San Diego State implicit Utah).

Locally, CSU (1-2) carried the emblem for the authorities with a astonishing 22-6 triumph astatine Toledo, which moved the Rams up to 20th successful the canvass aft debuting astatine No. 25 a week ago. CU’s Gophers gaffe dropped them 10 spots, to 18th down from eighth, portion Air Force’s location nonaccomplishment to Utah State pushed the Zoomies down from No. 7 to No. 13.

The Buffs (1-2) and Rams look large roadworthy tests connected Saturday, visiting Arizona State (2-1) and Iowa (3-0), respectively. The Falcons (2-1) big Florida Atlantic portion Wyoming (3-0), present the highest-ranked squad on the Front Range, visits Connecticut.

The Denver Post Best of the West College Football canvass each Monday ranks the apical 25 FBS programs from the Front Range to the Pacific Ocean, arsenic culled from the Pac-12, the Mountain West and BYU.

Post columnist Sean Keeler (@SeanKeeler), Post lawman sports exertion Matt Schubert (@MattDSchubert) and Post newsman Kyle Fredrickson (@KyleFredrickson) ballot connected the apical 25.

The remainder of the latest rankings follow, with in-state squads listed successful bold:

THE DENVER POST BEST OF THE WEST TOP 25 POLL — SEPT. 20

1. Oregon (3-0) (3 first-place votes) — Previous: 1 // Up next: vs. AZ

2. BYU (3-0) — Previous: 5 // Up next: vs. USF

3. Fresno State (3-1) — Previous: 6 // Up next: vs. UNLV, Fri.

▲4. USC (2-1) — Previous: 14 // Up next: vs. OREST

5. Stanford (2-1) — Previous: 12 // Up next: vs. UCLA

6. Utah State (3-0) — Previous: 13 // Up next: vs. BOISE

7. San Diego State (3-0) — Previous: 10 // Up next: vs. TOW

8. UCLA (2-1) — Previous: 2 // Up next: astatine STAN

9. Oregon State (2-1) — Previous: 15 // Up next: astatine USC

10. Wyoming (3-0) — Previous: 16 // Up next: astatine UCONN

11. Arizona State (2-1) — Previous: 3 // Up next: vs. CU

12. Boise State (1-2) — Previous: 9 // Up next: astatine USU

13. Air Force (2-1) — Previous: 7 // Up next: FAU

▼14. Nevada (2-1) — Previous: 4 // Up next: BYE

15. San Jose State (2-1) — Previous: 17 // Up next: astatine WMICH

16. Washington (1-2) — Previous: 21 // Up next: vs. CAL

17. Utah (1-2) — Previous: 11 // Up next: vs. WAZZU

▼18. CU (1-2) — Previous: 8 // Up next: astatine ASU

19. California (1-2) — Previous: 18 // Up next: astatine WASH

20. CSU (1-2) — Previous: 25 // Up next: astatine IOWA

21. Washington State (1-2) — Previous: 20 // Up next: astatine UTAH

22. Hawaii (1-3) — Previous: 22 // Up next: astatine NMST

23. New Mexico (2-1) — Previous: 19 // Up next: astatine UTEP

24. Arizona (0-2) — Previous: 23 // Up next: astatine ORE

25. UNLV (0-3) — Previous: 24 // Up next: astatine FRES, Fri.

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The adjacent Best of the West canvass volition station Monday, Sept. 27.