This does show how challenging the climb back to the top can be once you fall out of the Top 25.  "Holding serve" has its own set of challenges but if you start in the Top 10 / 15 and lose a game, you will not drop out of the Top 25 or in the case of the Luckeyes when they lost to Oklahoma they were still in the Top 10.

One forgettable season; 3 wins to start the new season and the once "highly ranked" Ducks are now just barely in the Top 25. The solution is simple...keep winning! GO DUCKS!