MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia will be carrying some more momentum into the offseason. The Mountaineers cracked the final American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Coaches' Top 25 Poll, released this afternoon.
 
Coach Neal Brown's Mountaineers earned 117 poll points to finish 25^th, one of six Big 12 teams ranked by the coaches. Texas, which lost to Washington in last week's College Football Playoff, finished fourth.
 
Oklahoma was ranked 15^th; Oklahoma State was 16^th and Kansas State was 19^th.
 
Kansas, which outlasted UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, finished ranked 23^rd while WVU, victorious over North Carolina in the Duke's Mayo Bowl, made the final spot.
 
Future Big 12 member Arizona placed 11^th following its 38-24 win over Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl.
 
It's the first time West Virginia has finished nationally ranked in the coaches' poll since 2018, which is also the last time the Mountaineers were ranked in the Associated Press poll.
 
It's the 19^th time since 1953 that West Virginia has finished a season ranked in the coaches' poll.
 
Late last night, the final AP poll was released, and West Virginia fell two spots shy of the top 25 with 90 poll points. Liberty finished 25^th with 139 points while Oregon State was 26^th with 96 points.
 
West Virginia, 9-4, was predicted to finish last in the preseason Big 12 media poll and ended up in a three-way tie with Iowa State and Kansas State for fourth place.
 
Looking ahead to 2024, the Mountaineers will return the bulk of their key offensive playmakers, including Duke's Mayo Bowl MVP Garrett Greene, who accounted for more than 3,000 yards and 29 touchdowns from scrimmage in 2023.