Massachusetts, which has needed overtime to win in three of its last nine games, remains the sole undefeated Division I basketball team.
The chance to replace the 0 with a 1 on the record of the nation's only undefeated Division I team?
Boise State, which received the other first-place vote in the AP poll, was the only undefeated Division I football team.
Ferrum (11-1) was the only remaining undefeated Division III team.
Penn State (18-1, 9-1) had been the last undefeated Division I women's basketball team.
That left second-ranked St. Joseph's, which is 27-0, as the only remaining undefeated Division I men's team.
The Hoosiers (17-2-0) yielded to the Boston University (16-0-1), who had three victories last week and are the only undefeated Division I team.
If Stanford won, Martelli's team would share the distinction of being one of two undefeated Division I men's teams in America.
Due to relatively short seasons through most of college football history, the list of undefeated Division I football teams includes dozens of teams.
Tulane won the game 41-27 to finish along with the Tennessee Volunteers as the only undefeated Division I-A teams for the 1998 season.