I was a week early about the playoff rankings, but I was right about half of the teams approximately. As a result, it’s important we give the Big 12 some love! Unfortunately they play each other, but two of the top 10 teams are in that Big 12 conference and will play for an inside track to the Big 12 title game and ultimately the playoff.
Kalani Sitake going strong in year 10 at BYU. Man, does time fly! Though this proves that BYU made the right hire, it also suggests to me that if Bronco Mendenhall never left BYU, he’d still be coaching them to this day. I thought Sitake was a bad hire at the time because he was coordinating one of the worst defenses in the country in 2015, but he has proven to myself and everyone, that he is a better head coach than he was a defensive coordinator. It takes a village, having the right assistants too, but whatever he has done, is remarkable. BYU is awfully hard to win at because of them being an Independent school and having to play and recruit nationally. They haven’t missed a beat since Jake Retzlaff left for Tulane either.
Unsurprisingly, Ohio State and Indiana top the playoff rankings, but the SEC has the biggest imprint on the top 10, and also the entire rankings with at least 8 teams in the top 25 this week. Texas A&M is due to break through in a way they haven’t since before the turn of the millennium.
Week 10 record: 31-20
Record through Week 10: 411-130 (.760)
11/7 (3 games):
Houston (-1.5) def. UCF, 34-20
19) USC (-14.5) def. Northwestern, 35-14
Memphis (-3.5) def. Tulane, 31-24
11/8 (43 games):
2) Indiana (-14.5) def. Penn State, 42-21
5) Georgia (-9.5) def. Mississippi State, 38-24
8) Texas Tech (-10.5) def. 7) BYU, 29-27
SMU (-11.5) def. Boston College, 31-17
West Virginia (-1.5) def. Colorado, 30-27
James Madison (-13.5) def. Marshall, 35-14
Southern Mississippi (-4.5) def. Arkansas State, 30-26
Army (-6.5) def. Temple, 27-20
1) Ohio State (-30.5) def. Purdue, 49-20
6) Ole Miss def. The Citadel, 59-0
Liberty (-7.5) def. Missouri State, 31-17
Bowling Green def. Eastern Michigan (-2.5), 27-24
Rice (-2.5) def. UAB, 31-21
Rutgers (-2.5) def. Maryland, 30-24
Louisiana Tech (-2.5) def. Delaware, 34-20
Florida International def. Middle Tennessee (-1.5), 27-26
Jacksonville State (-1.5) def. UTEP, 27-23
East Carolina (-28.5) def. Charlotte, 41-14
Florida Atlantic (-3.5) def. Tulsa, 38-31
3) Texas A&M (-6.5) def. 22) Missouri, 34-23
20) Iowa def. 9) Oregon (-6.5), 24-21
18) Miami (FL) (-28.5) def. Syracuse, 35-14
Duke (-9.5) def. UConn, 42-32
Arizona (-5.5) def. Kansas, 38-34
TCU (-6.5) def. Iowa State, 30-27
16) Vanderbilt (-6.5) def. Auburn, 28-17
Kennesaw State (-9.5) def. New Mexico State, 37-21
Coastal Carolina (-7.5) def. Georgia State, 34-27
Wisconsin def. 23) Washington (-10.5), 16-13
Stanford def. North Carolina (-7.5), 27-24
Texas State (-2.5) def. Louisiana, 34-30
San José State (-5.5) def. Air Force, 48-35
14) Virginia (-6.5) def. Wake Forest, 34-13
15) Louisville (-18.5) def. California, 36-24
Clemson (-1.5) def. Florida State, 35-31
4) Alabama (-9.5) def. LSU, 29-23
10) Notre Dame (-26.5) def. Navy, 49-21
Kentucky def. Florida (-3.5), 26-20
Utah State (-9.5) def. Nevada, 31-24
UCLA (-3.5) def. Nebraska, 31-17
UNLV (-4.5) def. Colorado State, 38-28
Oregon State (-20.5) def. Sam Houston State, 41-17
San Diego State (-6.5) def. Hawaii, 38-34
One thing that works against Michigan’s favor is that each of the last five years Ohio State was ranked number 1 in the country at some point (2006, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2019), they defeated Michigan to end the regular season. After their victory over Texas, Ohio State was ranked number 1 in the country for the first time since November 26, 2019, where they held the spot for two weeks before relenting it to eventual national champion LSU.
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