Place Team Points #1 Votes Movement Noisy 1 Texas 172 4 - West Virginia (325) 2 Michigan 160 1 - Texas 3 Penn State 141 0 +3 Michigan 4 Ohio State 137 1 - Penn State 5 Florida State 136 0 -2 Ohio State 6 Washington 134 0 -1 Florida State 7 Georgia 127 1 - Washington 8 Oregon 122 0 - Georgia 9 Oklahoma 122 0 +1 Oregon 10 USC 121 0 -1 Oklahoma 11 Alabama 101 0 +1 USC 12 Notre Dame 99 0 +2 Alabama 13 Washington State 89 0 +3 Notre Dame 14 Ole Miss 75 0 +5 Washington State 15 North Carolina 71 0 -2 North Carolina 16 Miami (FL) 66 0 +1 North Carolina 17 Oregon State 62 0 +6 Miami (FL) 18 Kentucky 61 0 NR Oregon State 19 Tennessee 41 0 +2 Kentucky 20 Duke 39 0 -5 Tennessee 21 Missouri 34 0 +3 Duke 22 Louisville 31 0 +2 Missouri 23 Texas A&M 27 0 -1 Louisville 24 Utah 25 0 -13 Texas A&M 25 Fresno State 21 0 NR Utah
Others receiving votes: Maryland (19), Iowa (14), LSU (9), Air Force (5), Kansas State (5), Wisconsin (4), James Madison (2), Rutgers (2), Kansas (1)
Link to check out the spreadsheet of responses here
FSU feels like they’re waiting on the epic loss that’ll send them nose diving out of the rankings. They’ve had too many stupid close calls.
In my mind FSU, Texas, and Penn State are all waiting on that meltdown loss. But until then, I think top-10 rankings for them are justifiable.
With respect to Texas, you shut your whore mouth :)
Honestly, I don’t think we’ve really come nearly as close as FSU. The indicator to me is the multiple single score wins over teams that are just atrocious.
Edit: Wording wasn’t quite what I wanted.
Yeah Texas (and Penn State) does look to be on more solid footing than FSU.
Also I have Georgia half-included in that mental list. I forget the exact stat, but something like “in 5 of their 6 games, they’ve been down by 10 or more in the first half”. Wouldn’t be too surprised if they lost one of their games—they have 4 now-ranked teams remaining on their schedule
I think Georgia losing at this point is basically a coin flip. Question is…who gets into the CFP between a one-loss SEC team and an undefeated Pac champ?
If it’s USC, USC.
If it’s Oregon State, the 1-loss SEC team.