While the recognition we get from a ranking would be nice, I'm in no hurry for us to crack the top 25. In the past few years it seems that whenever we move up in the rankings, we lose a conference game or three, often to teams we should defeat, and never end up on top of the B1G. So perhaps we do better when the target on our back does not grow larger.
Just keep winning. Do that and everything else will fall into place.