7 top-25 matches. One unbeaten team.

Nebraska is 17-0, the only unbeaten team in Division I.

Texas has been swept four times. It never had more than two in a full season since 2011.. No. 12 Texas (8-6) has been swept four times: by Nebraska, Louisville, Kentucky and, on Sunday, unranked Oklahoma. In every full season from 2011 through 2025 Texas lost 0-3 at most twice. Its six losses through Oct. 14 are the most at this point of any season since at least 2011 (previous high: four, in 2011 and 2018). No. 7 Florida visits Austin on Sunday; Texas is 220-19 at home since 2011 and 4-0 this season.

Nebraska has been No. 1 in 23 of the last 24 AVCA polls, and got all 63 first-place votes for the first time this year. Nebraska was No. 1 in every poll of 2025 from the preseason through Week 14, finished third in the final poll after its only loss (to Texas A&M in the NCAA tournament on Dec. 14), and has been No. 1 in all eight 2026 polls. This week it got all 63 first-place votes for the first time this season (57, 57, 54, 48, 48, 44 and 47 in the earlier polls). Nebraska is one of 15 teams since 1982 to be No. 1 in every poll from the preseason through Week 7, and the fifth Nebraska team to do it (2005, 2006, 2007, 2025, 2026). Purdue (No. 13) visits on Saturday.

Three straight defending champions have fallen to 15th or lower. Before 2024 it had happened once since 1982.. Texas A&M, the 2025 national champion, is No. 19 at 10-7, already three losses more than its 29-4 title season. The previous two defending champions also slid: Texas reached No. 15 in 2024 and Penn State fell to No. 25 in 2025. Before 2024, the only defending champion since 1982 to drop to 15th or lower in the next season was 1990 Long Beach State (15th), not counting the COVID-disrupted 2020 polls. A&M hosts No. 7 Florida on Friday.

Vanderbilt is in the AVCA poll for the first time, and it just beat No. 5 Florida. Vanderbilt (13-2) is No. 24, its first appearance in an AVCA poll; it does not appear in any of the 1982-2025 polls. In MESH's NCAA history its first season with matches is 2025, when it went 9-18. On Sunday it beat No. 5 Florida 3-1, the highest-ranked team an unranked team has beaten this season. MESH's team rating has Vanderbilt No. 11. Of all Top 25 teams, it is the one MESH rates furthest above its poll rank (13 spots).

Nebraska has lost three sets in 17 matches. Nebraska is 17-0 and has won 51 of 54 sets, losing one each to Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Florida Gulf Coast. It is 7-0 against ranked teams with a 21-1 set record. A year ago Nebraska's 17-0 start, the best in D-I, included six lost sets. Nebraska has won 47 straight regular-season matches (all 30 in 2025 plus 17 this year).

Nebraska wins more than half the rallies it serves. Nebraska has scored on 50.7% of its own serves (1,240 serves). Only one other D-I team is above 50%: West Florida (50.2%, 769 serves), whose schedule ranks 277th of 348. Nebraska also leads D-I in sideout percentage (70.4%) and points won (59.4%).

Oklahoma, unranked since 2014, beat Texas A&M and Texas in five days. Unranked Oklahoma beat No. 12 Texas A&M 3-2 on Oct. 7 and swept No. 9 Texas on Oct. 11, both in Norman. Oklahoma (10-4) was last ranked in Week 11 of 2014 (No. 24) and is fourth among teams receiving votes this week (36 points). It is 4-0 in five-set matches.

Olivia Babcock is scoring at a rate only one D-I player matched over a full season since 2021. Pitt's Olivia Babcock leads D-I with 5.38 kills per set and averages 6.29 points per set. Among full D-I seasons from 2021 through 2025 (80+ sets), only Miami's Flormarie Heredia Colon in 2025 (7.17) scored more per set. Her kill rate has gone up every year: 3.62 in 2023, 4.72 in 2024, 5.17 in 2025.

Kelli Jo Burgess is blocking at a rate no D-I player sustained over a full season from 2021 to 2025. BYU middle Kelli Jo Burgess, a transfer from Oklahoma, averages 1.92 blocks per set (92 in 48 sets), the most in D-I. No D-I player with 80 or more sets from 2021 to 2025 averaged more; the best was Boston College's Julia Haggerty at 1.91 in 2024. Burgess averaged 1.27 at Oklahoma last season. No. 14 BYU has won 10 straight.

USC's Mia Tvrdy had 16 blocks in a three-set match. USC's Mia Tvrdy had 16 blocks (1 solo, 15 assists) in a 3-0 win over UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 20, the most by any D-I player in any match this season, five-setters included. No one else has more than 12 in a three-set match. USC had 20.5 team blocks that night.

Two servers ran off 18 straight points to end a set. Montana State setter Teagan Jaynes served 18 straight points against Mercer on Sept. 17, from 7-7 to 25-7 in the third set. Georgia Southern setter Lexi Duffy did the same against Fordham on Sept. 19 (7-6 to 25-6 in the first set), part of a 19-0 run. Those are the longest serving runs in the 2,761 D-I matches with play-by-play this season. The longest against a Big Ten, Big 12, ACC or SEC opponent was 14 straight, by Utah's Kamryn Gibadlo at Kansas State on Oct. 3.

Stanford has been swept five times and already has its most losses since 2021. No. 16 Stanford (10-6) has been swept by Penn State, Arizona State, SMU, Pittsburgh and Louisville. Its six losses are already more than in any full season since 2021 (it lost five in 2025). It is the lowest Stanford has been ranked since the 2021 final poll (21st), ending a 71-poll run in the top 15. Stanford was No. 5 in the preseason.