Arizona State jumps four spots in AP Top 25 to No. 21 after Week 6 bye

Arizona State football didn't even need to take the field to climb the college football rankings in Week 6.

The AP Top 25 released its latest list on Sunday and the Sun Devils jumped four spots to No. 21 in the nation while resting up on their bye week. The team upset No. 24 TCU on Sept. 26 and earned its way back into the Top 25 (literally at No. 25) for the first time since Week 2.

ASU now enters Week 7 with a trip to Utah, followed by a highly anticipated visit from undefeated No. 9 Texas Tech on the horizon. It'll be a battle to determine who has the inside track to the Big 12 Championship Game and an attempt to keep pace with No. 18 BYU, the only other undefeated team from the league in the rankings.

Week 6 chaos benefits ASU in latest AP rankings

Two gigantic programs were dropped entirely from the Top 25 after entering the season with national championship expectations. Penn State, which entered the week at No. 7, lost to an 0-4 UCLA squad at the Rose Bowl, and then No. 9 Texas was beaten by a 1-3 Florida team on the road.

Ohio State remains No. 1 after crushing Minnesota at home 42-3. Miami, Oregon, Ole Miss and Texas A&M round out the rest of the Top 5.

ASU benefitted from the amount of chaos in the top half of the rankings, thus securing an advancement rather than an expected bump from their previous No. 25 spot. Iowa State now sits just behind the Devils at No. 22 after being upset by Cincinnati on the road.

The Group of Five finally has it's potential representatives in the College Football Playoff back in the rankings too. Undefeated Memphis (No. 23) and early-season darling South Florida (No. 24) will likely be jockeying things out for the American Athletic Conference crown but don't count out undefeated UNLV and the Mountain West, which received 19 votes.