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INTEREST: We Never Learn Manga's Lead Heroines Ranked in Jump Polls

She has less focus chapters and isn't as hilarious a straight man (or attempted straight man).

Sensei ( Mafuyu Kurisu ), since around the last 20 chapters, has as much scenes if not more than the mains heroines and her scenes are more varied, also the author seems to really like her and makes a lot of fanservice scenes with her, more than the mains heroines ( to debate with Uruka )
Ogata's scenes pretty much never changed since the beginning, she used to be the most popular by far but recently her interest keep dropping because of her stagnating character development, mainwhile Furuhashi which had a rather slow start ( toward the beginning she was more an omnipresent supporting character than a heroine, most of her text were monologues which describes the relationship between Ogata/Uruka and the hero in an objective way then during her dialogues with others she start to kick around the bush, she was kind of the reader's avatar in this story) is now starting to stand out and claim her role as a heroine.

Seeing how things were recently, if Uruka doesn't get more arcs she will most likely drop in the next polls and senpai ( Asumi Kominami ) will overtake her. Even though i really like her, it would be funny for this manga to be remembered as a "Love Come where the mains heroines lost to the supporting characters" it would be a refreshing change from the recent stereotypes

First of all to Casual: you mean "straight woman"~, but secondly I see where you two are coming from.

I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but FilthyCasual's usage of "straight man" is as a narrative concept: Together with the funny man, they make a comic duo or comic pairing in which the funny man starts jokes and gags and the straight man reacts (or doesn't react) to them. This term is used regardless of the sex of the characters (and has nothing to do with sexual orientation) and, while quite common in western media (Laurel and Hardy, SpongeBob and Squidward, Newman and...anyone else, Rick and Morty), it's a lot more common in Japanese media due to the traditional manzai stand-up comedy following this setup too.

That being said, as a (narrative) straight man, Ogata doesn't really work too well as she is constantly flustered and astonished by things around her. Kominami works much better as a straight man as she has the dry wit to strike back at the funny men she gets paired up with.