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Despite going 1-3 at the SoCal Tournament, the Air Force Falcons were able to move up one spot in the latest CWPA polls to No. 13. The reason for the climb is that Air Force defeated UC Davis who was No. 12 at the time. This is the highest that Air Force has been ranked in years.
The entire poll had a shakeup as nine of the top 10 teams changed spots after some upsets at the SoCal Tournament, but the USC Trojans stay the No. 1 team in the land stays the same for the fifth straight week. Of the WWPA teams, Air Force is third in line behind Loyola Marymount and UC San Diego.
Here is the Week 5 poll:
| Rank | Team | September 26 Poll | Points |
| 1 | University of Southern California |
1 | 100 |
| 2 | University of California-Santa Barbara |
6 | 94 |
| 3 | University of California-Los Angeles | 2 | 92 |
| 4 | University of California-Irvine |
5 | 84 |
| 5 | Stanford University |
3 | 82 |
| 6 | University of the Pacific |
8 | 75 |
| 7 | University of California |
4 | 71 |
| 8 | Pepperdine University |
7 | 65 |
| 9 | Loyola Marymount University |
10 | 60 |
| 10 | Long Beach State University |
9 | 55 |
| 11 | University of California-San Diego |
11 | 50 |
| 12 | Brown University |
13 | 43 |
| 13 | United States Air Force Academy |
14 | 37 |
| 14 | United States Naval Academy |
15 | 34 |
| 15 | St. Francis College |
19 | 30 |
| 16 | Princeton University |
16 | 26 |
| 17 | University of California-Davis | 12 | 25 |
| 18 | Santa Clara University |
17 | 13 |
| 19 | California Baptist University |
18 | 11 |
| 20 | Concordia University (Calif.) |
20 | 6 |
| RV | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
RV | 2 |