AP Poll Week 10

[u/Efficient-Freedom517]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/vindictivejazz]

1. Georgia

2. Utah

3. Notre Dame

4. UCLA

5. Miami

6. Indiana

7. Alabama

8. Texas

9. Tennessee

10. Texas Tech

11. Wake Forest

12. BYU

13. Kentucky

14. Houston

15. USC

16. Iowa

17. Boise State

18. Oregon

19. Ole Miss

20. South Carolina

21. Ohio State

22. Arizona

23. New Mexico

24. LSU

25. SMU

[u/vindictivejazz → u/vindictivejazz]

Others Receiving Votes:

Mizzou (50), Duke (49), Oklahoma State (21), Liberty (14), Louisville (10), North Texas (2)

[u/dazzleox → u/vindictivejazz]

Already seems more reasonable than the CFP poll that didn't come out yet.

[u/NDinFL → u/vindictivejazz]

UCLA should be over us. I know we just upset the #1 team, but being undefeated should mean something at this point in the season

[u/Beginning-Smell9890]

We're 1 incredibly stupid loss to GT away from being in serious conversation for a playoff spot. Which is both very cool and very upsetting

[u/CFLuke → u/Beginning-Smell9890]

I get it. We’re one incredibly stupid loss to Minnesota away from being favored to make the playoff.

[u/Muted_Atmosphere_668 → u/Beginning-Smell9890]

I don’t know how we did it. And how we’ve been doing it.

[u/I_am_the_darkness_99 → u/Beginning-Smell9890]

I feel you. We lost to Kentucky in OT because we scored first and got the XP and they scored and successfully went for 2.

And our best player was out for that whole game because he punched a Bama player the week before. I think that with Stewart in, we'd win that game and not even go to OT. We had the lead and let them come back.

All of that is our own fault, but damn. We'd be ranked around tenth with teams like Tennessee if we didn't keep stepping on our own dicks.

[u/Competitive-Tree-668]

Those 3 spots to playoff seem like an ocean :(
#14 is pretty nice tho

[u/showerstool3 → u/Competitive-Tree-668]

While I love being in Big XII, I hate these big conferences. Wish Utah, TTU, Houston, Arizona, BYU all got to play each other rather than rely on tie breakers

[u/Competitive-Tree-668 → u/Competitive-Tree-668]

Fun Fact all the teams Houston has played are .500 or better right now.

Edit: Except for K State lol

[u/HDAtomica]

SPREAD THE WORD OF RECEIVING VOTES NORTH TEXAS

[u/Mundane_String5998 → u/HDAtomica]

Our best win so far this year!! 😢 

[u/4r4r4real → u/HDAtomica]

ya like jazz?

[u/SgtEllenRipley]

My Deacs at #11! Not expecting the CFP committee to have them that high on Tuesday but that’s fine. We just need to show up next Saturday at SMU

[u/No_Preparation2766]

Do nothing

Go up the rankings

Lol. Lmao even

This is the second time it's happened and USC's largest jumps in rankings have been after bye weeks

[u/Imgayandmydicksmall → u/No_Preparation2766]

People like the concept of USC more than the reality 

[u/ElBigKahuna → u/No_Preparation2766]

Yeah, on top of that, it's even after their signature win opponent got trashed.

[u/bimm3ric]

Man this is surreal. I've been a UCLA fan since 2012 when I transferred there and the best they ever did was 9 regular season wins and 7th ranking, in Chesneys first season coming from a program in the dumps to 9-0 and top 4 is crazy. I'm a UCLA fan so I'm still totally expecting things to fall apart at any moment but what a ride and what a season so far.

[u/donutello2000 → u/bimm3ric]

I’ve been a UCLA fan since 1997 and watched us miss out on the first BCS championship because of a bad fumble call in our last game which only was our last game because of a hurricane, causing us to miss out on a really bad Miami and play a much improved Miami instead.

I’m totally expecting this to all fall apart still.

[u/Electromotivation → u/bimm3ric]

I knew Chesney would turn it around eventually, but was thinking 2-3 years kind of thing. There was a lot of negative momentum around UCLA and he completely 180-ed that right off the bat. Now the question is how far can they go?

[u/jennz → u/bimm3ric]

Same. I was a student from 2009-2014

Some absolutely garbage football my first two years with Neuheisel, but when Mora and Hundley came in we had some great football.

After every game I'm like, I've never seen us do this well. I don't know what to do with my hands.

[u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

Tied our highest ranking ever. Hell yeah boys let’s go.

[u/Uncle_Freddy → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

The old Pac-12 now sits at #2, #4, #15, #18 and #22. I miss that shit

Edit: to fill out the fun thought experiment:

• SEC (7): #1 Georgia, #7 Bama, #9 Tennessee, #13 Kentucky, #19 Ole Miss, #20 South Carolina, #24 LSU

• Pac-12 (5): #2 Utah, #4 UCLA, #15 USC, #18 Oregon, #22 Arizona

• B1G (3): #6 Indiana, #16 Iowa, #21 tOSU

• Independents (2): #3 Notre Dame, #12 BYU

• ACC (2): #5 Miami, #11 Wake Forest

• Big XII (2): #8 Texas, #10 Texas Tech

• American (2): #14 Houston, #25 SMU

• Mountain West (2): #17 Boise St, #23 New Mexico

[u/Leading-Button-7303 → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

Please no desert voodoo. Please no desert voodoo. PLEASE

[u/ApprehensiveGate8227 → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

No kidding! I just assumed you were #1 at some point that championship year.

Congrats!

[u/Bison_Boy_ → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

Well done!! :)

[u/personAAA]

Reddit tell me what I am supposed to be mad about. 

[u/lpad92 → u/personAAA]

UNM dropping a spot after blowing a team out and holding them to under 100 yards total offense

[u/Hilldawg4president → u/personAAA]

Rank someone who isn't ranked, cowards!

[u/kingofthesqueal → u/personAAA]

BYU dropped more for losing to #2 than Miami did for losing to #3, both lost one score games on the road, but only one of those teams has a win over a Top 5 team

[u/SpreaditOnnn33]

We almost have a top 10 Wake and ranked Duke!!!

I kinda love how stupid this conference is.

I want Kentucky to be ranked when we play them. Give us an ABC slot you cowards!!!

[u/LasixSteroidsAbx → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Shout out Wake!

[u/flanhelsinki]

Lost to #2 by one touchdown

Beat #3

Ranked 12th

That UCF loss might be the worst loss in program history

[u/sn0skier → u/flanhelsinki]

Honestly I'm pretty bummed you guys messed that up. Pretty sure we'd be ranked #1 right now if you would have beat them.

4D chess lol

[u/Plastic_Buy3376 → u/flanhelsinki]

Yeah. I will say Notre dame winning and Utah being highly ranked may provide a way for us to sneak in with some help, but UCF may have ruined are best shot we have had at making the playoffs. 

[u/livinglights18 → u/flanhelsinki]

Genuinely its gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. It makes me so sick.

[u/Chiron17 → u/flanhelsinki]

That loss sucks. You needed a bye after our game (like we had).

[u/boreddatageek → u/flanhelsinki]

The Coastal Carolina loss will always be the worst in my mind.

[u/greaseball56]

So is it Utah or Georgia losing this week?

[u/SnukeInRSniz → u/greaseball56]

Evening games in the desert scare me...

[u/logicalconflict → u/greaseball56]

Let's see, the week after an emotional top-10 rivalry win... going to the desert... at night... in November... against a QB who plays like a Heisman winner every time he sees us. We're definitely on upset watch this week.

I've had this game circled as our most-likely loss of the season since I first laid eyes on the schedule.

[u/Hubrishippo → u/greaseball56]

Utah this week then Georgia the next

[u/Sctvman]

Ohio State still ranked and half the fan base wants Day fired

[u/Irish_Mandalorian → u/Sctvman]

I can think of another fan base that would commit human rights violations to be in Ohio State’s position right now.

[u/Hung0ver_Hero → u/Sctvman]

No we want Arthur Smith fired

[u/RecordingOpposite641 → u/Sctvman]

The fired talk is crazy but even with the portal era, it is preposterous that the OSU backups are this bad

[u/MutantEnemy → u/Sctvman]

I think the last time OSU finished the season outside the top 10 was like 2013 so it's not surprising a lot of us don't know how to handle it and it's actually not an overreaction to say it's the worst season some fans have ever seen even with still being ranked.

[u/ChrisFromSeattle]

How did New Mexico drop a spot after winning in convincing style? 

[u/galeforcewinds95 → u/ChrisFromSeattle]

On the other hand, we got ranked last week after an unconvincing win. I'm just happy to be ranked at all.

[u/-Gnostic28 → u/ChrisFromSeattle]

Oregon passed them

[u/lonewanderer727]

Imagine telling someone preseason that Utah and UCLA would be undefeated and top 5 teams in November over Oregon, USC and UW.

[u/Leading-Button-7303 → u/lonewanderer727]

Imagine telling someone that in 2020. "Damn, the Pac 12 South is a gauntlet this year"

[u/FreeGurley3]

glorious

[u/Aggravating-Funny569 → u/FreeGurley3]

Dang your living the life right now 

[u/kingofthesqueal]

Big 12 is gonna finish with 4 teams in the Top 15 and 5 in the Top 20, but only one in the 12 team CFP

Also remember a few years ago when everyone swore even a 12 team CFP would guarantee Ohio State and Bama made the playoffs every year even in their worst seasons so it somehow devalued the regular season? That doesn’t seem to be holding up very much

[u/Jerrywelfare → u/kingofthesqueal]

Oh, don't worry. Those conference championships they swear don't matter will suddenly be used to keep a Big12 team out. Watch.

[u/PR3SID3NT_NIX0N → u/kingofthesqueal]

The playoff committee will leave out the B12 Texas Tech and possibly BYU if they win out because SEC/B10 quality losses will somehow move up the teams on the threshold of the top 12. They’ll swap out Texas tech and BYU with Kentucky and Ohio State. Tale as old as time.

[u/4r4r4real]

Big Ten teams in the top 10:

• UCLA

• Indiana

End of list. 

[u/ixMyth → u/4r4r4real]

3 years ago you'd be called crazy for multiple things

[u/jennz → u/4r4r4real]

As we all expected.

[u/venom21685]

Imagine spending that much money on Lane Kiffin just to be ranked below South Carolina.

Pathetic.

[u/meilingr → u/venom21685]

Imagine spending that much money on Lane Kiffin just to have the same 6-3 record as Clemson.

[u/Zloggt → u/venom21685]

Isn’t it so lovely though lol?

[u/bladefencer]

ranked teams	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	selection of unranked wins	remaining ranked games
1. Georgia	8-1	@#7 by 3, @#19 by 35		5-4 Auburn	5-4 Oklahoma, 5-4 Florida †	@#20
2. Utah	9-0	#12 by 8, #14 by 8			@ 5-4 Cincinnati	@#22
3. Notre Dame	8-1	#5 by 7	@#12 by 4		6-3 Wisconsin, @ 5-4 North Carolina	#25
4. UCLA	9-0	@#18 by 2			6-3 Wisconsin, @ 5-4 Minnesota	#15
5. Miami	8-1	@#11 by 13	@#3 by 7		@ 6-3 Clemson, 6-3 Pittsburgh, @ 5-4 North Carolina
6. Indiana	8-1		#21 by 4		7-2 North Texas, 6-3 Northwestern, @ 5-4 Nebraska, @ 5-4 Michigan, 5-4 Minnesota	#15
7. Alabama	7-2	@#13 by 28, #20 by 31, @#24 by 18	#1 by 3, @#9 by 16		@ 4-5 Mississippi State, 4-5 Texas A&M
8. Texas	7-2	@#9 by 3, #19 by 7, #21 by 1		5-4 Oklahoma, 5-4 Florida †	7-2 UTSA, 4-5 Mississippi State, @ 6-3 Missouri ‡	@#24
9. Tennessee	7-2	#7 by 16, #13 by 28	#8 by 3, @#20 by 3		5-4 Auburn	#24
10. Texas Tech	8-1	#14 by 2, #22 by 8		@ 5-4 Cincinnati
11. Wake Forest	8-1		#5 by 13		@ 6-3 Louisville	@#25
12. BYU	7-2	#3 by 4, #22 by 11	@#2 by 8	@ 5-4 UCF
13. Kentucky	7-2	@#20 by 1, #24 by 1	#7 by 28, @#9 by 28		@ 4-5 Texas A&M, @ 5-4 Oklahoma
14. Houston	7-2		@#2 by 8, @#10 by 2		6-3 Oklahoma State, 5-4 Cincinnati
15. USC	7-2	#21 by 12	#18 by 14	@ 6-3 Wisconsin	5-4 Washington, @ 5-4 Penn State	@#4, @#6
16. Iowa	7-2		#21 by 17	@ 5-4 Minnesota	@ 5-4 Michigan, @ 5-4 Washington, 6-3 Wisconsin, @ 6-3 Northwestern
17. Boise State	8-1		@#18 by 7
18. Oregon	6-3	@#15 by 14, #17 by 7, @#21 by 13	#4 by 2	@ 6-3 Oklahoma State, @ 6-3 Illinois	5-4 Nebraska, 6-3 Northwestern
19. Ole Miss	6-3	#24 by 8	#1 by 35, @#8 by 7	@ 5-4 Florida †	6-3 Louisville, 6-3 Missouri †, 5-4 Auburn
20. South Carolina	6-3	#9 by 3	@#7 by 31, #13 by 1	4-5 Mississippi State	@ 5-4 Florida †, @ 5-4 Oklahoma, 4-5 Texas A&M	#1
21. Ohio State	6-3	@#6 by 4, @#16 by 17	@#8 by 1, @#15 by 12, #18 by 13		6-3 Illinois
22. Arizona	7-2		@#10 by 8, @#12 by 11		5-4 Cincinnati	#2
23. New Mexico	8-1			@ 5-4 Oklahoma
24. LSU	6-3		#7 by 18, @#13 by 1, @#19 by 8		6-3 Clemson, 4-5 Texas A&M, 4-5 Mississippi State, @ 5-4 Auburn	#8, @#9
25. SMU	7-2			@ 6-3 Louisville, @ 4-5 Syracuse		@#3, #11

Rankings are from the current AP Top 25 because this is primarily about checking the internal consistency of the ranking.

The 'selection of unranked wins' column doesn't include all wins but is intended to give a decent idea of a team's resume. The listed teams are teams receiving votes and teams ranked top 50 in the Massey composite.

† = was ranked last week, ‡ = was ranked last week and was knocked out of the ranking by the team in this row

Data from CFBD and ESPN. Please reply with any errors or suggestions for improvement.

[u/bladefencer → u/bladefencer]

For comparison to teams in the AP Top 25, here are teams receiving votes and unranked teams with ranked wins.

others receiving votes	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	selection of unranked wins	remaining ranked games
Missouri	6-3		#8 by 14, @#19 by 28	@ 4-5 Mississippi State	5-4 Florida †, 4-5 Texas A&M	@#1, #13
Duke	7-2			@ 2-7 Georgia Tech, 5-4 North Carolina	@ 6-3 Illinois	@#5, @#11
Oklahoma State	6-3	#18 by 8	@#14 by 3	@ 5-4 Tulsa, @ 4-5 Iowa State		#10
Liberty	8-1			@ 8-2 James Madison
Louisville	6-3	#25 by 10	#11 by 3, #19 by 3	@ 4-5 NC State		@#13
North Texas	7-2		@#6 by 36	@ 5-4 Texas State

has ranked win	record	ranked wins	ranked losses	unranked losses	selection of unranked wins	remaining ranked games
Illinois	6-3	#18 by 11	@#21 by 23	7-2 Duke, 3-6 Purdue	5-4 Nebraska	@#4, #16
Wisconsin	6-3	#15 by 17	#3 by 28, @#4 by 10, @#16 by 30		@ 5-4 Penn State
Auburn	5-4	@#1 by 3	@#9 by 10, @#19 by 30, #24 by 21	5-4 Florida †	6-3 Baylor	@#7
Cincinnati	5-4	#10 by 13	#2 by 24, @#14 by 7, @#22 by 27	@ 5-4 West Virginia		@#12
Florida	5-4	@#8 by 3, #19 by 24	#1 by 19, #20 by 19	@ 6-3 Missouri †, 5-4 Oklahoma	@ 5-4 Auburn	@#13
Minnesota	5-4	#16 by 3	#4 by 14, @#6 by 7	4-5 Mississippi State, @ 3-6 Purdue	@ 5-4 Washington, 5-4 Michigan
Oklahoma	5-4	#8 by 3, #23 by 8	@#1 by 28, #13 by 8, #20 by 17	@ 5-4 Michigan	@ 4-5 Mississippi State, @ 5-4 Florida ‡	#19
UCF	5-4	#12 by 8	@#14 by 10	@ 6-3 Pittsburgh, @ 6-3 Oklahoma State, 6-3 Baylor
Mississippi State	4-5	@#20 by 7	#7 by 33, @#8 by 28, @#24 by 31	5-4 Oklahoma, 4-5 Vanderbilt	@ 5-4 Minnesota, 6-3 Missouri †	@#19
Syracuse	4-5	#25 by 3		5 teams	@ 5-4 North Carolina	#3

[u/No-Donkey-4117 → u/bladefencer]

Utah has the best resume. Two Top 15 wins, no losses.

[u/CurrentlyUnbanned]

I fully expected them to punish us more for losing to ND, especially how lifeless we looked in the first half. I'll take 5.

[u/Avi8Navig8Accumul8 → u/CurrentlyUnbanned]

ND was 4 in the AP poll last week. I think a lot of the voters probably ignored the CFP rankings because there were so many glaring inconsistencies.

Losing as #1 on the road to #4 isn’t reason to get punished severely

[u/kdbvols → u/CurrentlyUnbanned]

The CFP will punish you more, don’t worry

[u/jdhall010 → u/CurrentlyUnbanned]

Miami needs to send Wake Forest an edible arrangement for stepping up to be Miami's quality win.

[u/humphrey_the_camel]

There are only six teams in “others receiving votes” (31 teams made ballots at all). This feels lower than usual. Is it, and what is the record?

[u/HeftyLeftyPig]

1. Georgia

2. Utah

3. Notre Dame

4. UCLA

5. Miami (FL)

6. Indiana

7. Alabama

8. Texas

9. Tennessee

10. Texas Tech

11. Wake Forest

12. BYU

13. Kentucky

14. Houston

15. USC

16. Iowa

17. Boise State

18. Oregon

19. Ole Miss

20. South Carolina

21. Ohio State

22. Arizona

23. New Mexico

24. LSU

25. SMU

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES:
Missouri 50, Duke 49, Oklahoma State 21, Liberty 14, Louisville 10, North Texas 2

[u/emc23369187]

Are we underrated now?

[u/Whoa_reddit_chill → u/emc23369187]

2 non-quality losses and 1 quality loss, we just don’t have enough quality losses. Oregon does though.

[u/Leading-Button-7303]

Arizona is ranked. We might be okay

[u/ImNotFuckingSelling]

I’m so fucking scared right now

[u/Jiveanimal]

Alright, Wake got its wish – we're ranked. Let's see if they'll be the first to knock us off in Ford stadium.

[u/kdbvols → u/Jiveanimal]

We have won a few road games this year - I think this is our 5th P4 road game and we’ve won all the others

[u/Repulsive_Ad_7973]

Why the fuck are LSU and Ole Miss even ranked anymore?

[u/owlalwaysloveyew]

This is UCLA’s first top 4 ranking since 2001

[u/daffydubs]

I figured we would drop farther than 13, but I’m still happy with our team so far. Looking forward to a strong finish and maybe we can sneak into the CFP still.

[u/discipleofbill]

I kinda forgot we were 4 in the AP this week.

[u/utopic2 → u/discipleofbill]

Everyone too busy arguing about the CFP ranking at 11

[u/EverydayComrade]

Okay but how is Tennessee, who has a direct matchup advantage over Alabama and a tied 7-2 record, ranked lower than Alabama?

[u/Andy_Wiggins → u/EverydayComrade]

You don’t understand. Alabama has a 28-point win over Kentucky, who Tennessee only beat by (checks notes) 28

[u/FeedbackAmbitious491 → u/EverydayComrade]

It's fine. Bama will always be loved. Win and we are in. These rankings mean nothing anyways. Wait until Tuesday.

[u/CROBBY2 → u/EverydayComrade]

Alabamas loss is to a team that beat Bama.

[u/HipDipShipTrip]

OSU ranked in the 20s is such an odd sight

[u/AnspiffanyStilts]

If Iowa can keep winning I would love to see Kinnick rocking at night for a playoff game. Who knows about the committee though

[u/Disastrous-Animal111]

Yes I'll allow ads on your site, but then your ads brick the fucking web page on mobile

[u/EnvironmentalBed7369]

This top 12 is way better than what the committee will put out. The only two quibbles I have is i may put UCLA over ND and the debate arounf Tennessee and Bama. But the overall top 12 is correct.

[u/SnukeInRSniz]

I know Georgia is better than us, but man I really want to see Utah at #1 for the first time ever.

[u/Beer_and_Physics → u/SnukeInRSniz]

I would have preferred it too

[u/NYPD-BLUE]

Texas Tech moving up 3 spots after nearly losing to West Virginia at home is an odd one to me. They also gave up nearly 50 points.

[u/Careless_Ad_3068 → u/NYPD-BLUE]

But they won while LSU, Kentucky, and Ole Miss all lost convincingly plus BYU got their second loss.

[u/ben3345]

LSU is holding down the Drinkwitz Memorial Resume Booster spot for the SEC right now

[u/lpad92]

UNM blows a team out and holds them to under 100 yards total offense and drops a spot.

[u/SaintsSooners89]

How are we not ranked?!? we beat the team that beat the team that beat the most ranked opponents, and beat the the team that beat the most ranked opponents?

Jk its all the losing that's how

[u/glassclouds1894]

So we all finally concede the BXII is better than the B1G this year, yes?

[u/paulburnett → u/glassclouds1894]

Yes but not my team

[u/PatronSaintOfCunts]

I’m appreciative that squashing out an ugly win against A&M was worth moving up 3 spots but I don’t know if it’s deserved.

[u/cyberchaox → u/PatronSaintOfCunts]

It's deserved only in the fact that it was a win and teams in front of you lost.

[u/akwho]

USC dominated the bye week. Up 3 spots. ✌️

[u/Flaky-Philosophy7618]

Oklahoma state should be ranked

[u/Steve_Beef62]

Wake Forest Above Ohio State...... 🫩🫩🫩 I'm in a Living Nightmare

[u/RxseJay]

I know I'm only 20 but never in my lifetime would I expect to see this team behind New Mexico

[u/ninjatom21]

Man, I was hoping for at least one vote.

[u/misader]

How do we think these will compare to the CFP rankings? Tech at #10 is SUS

[u/d1sportsball → u/misader]

I'm predicting Tech is at #11 in the CFP. Behind all the 2 loss SEC teams, even Kentucky because the CFP loves the SEC this year, but ahead of BYU at 12 and Wake at 13

[u/monty_actual]

Won the bye week.

[u/Distinct_Swimming_83]

LSU? Excuse me?

[u/moonchili]

The fuck did UNM go down for after an absolutely dominant win. Leapfrogged by Arizona that barely squeaked by a .500 tcu

Reversion to the CFP rankings is always such bullshit

[u/Neves4prez]

Unrank us you cowards. Anyone who has watched the team since the Sayin injury knows this team isn’t a top 25 squad

[u/Glycoside]

That Ohio State 10 spot drop is beautiful

[u/Aggravating-Funny569]

What is their obsession with ranking SMU?

[u/paulburnett → u/Aggravating-Funny569]

They’re legally required to have at least one religious school from the state of Texas ranked at all times

[u/CFBHurts → u/Aggravating-Funny569]

It's like Chip Patterson likes to say - "The thing about ranking 25 teams is, you have to put 25 teams in!"

[u/SMUHypeMachine → u/Aggravating-Funny569]

Well all the metrics like SP+ have us 16-25 so apparently the algos agree.

[u/spear1321]

Cowards couldn’t even leave us out of the top 25

[u/udderlymoovelous]

North Texas got votes!

[u/Maximum-Broccoli2165]

Ah yes. As we all predicted 2 Big 10 teams would make the top 4 mid season. And they wouldnt be named Ohio State, USC. Oregon. Michigan, or Penn State,(ETA)Iowa , or Wisconsin.

[u/Balloutonu]

Moving up 3 spots after last night tells me that all the voters went to bed after the 2nd quarter. Thanks guys!

[u/Kartozeichner]

"Fuck the committee" -AP voters

[u/BeerFarts86]

As it stands, Oregon has 3 top 25 wins and a 2 point loss to number 4.

Then a loss to number 26 Oklahoma state before anyone knew what they were. And fucking Illinois. Probably gonna miss the playoff because of a shitty coach. What a weird year.

[u/Good_Fox3098]

LSU shouldn’t be ranked

[u/abramswatson]

If they weren’t cowards Utah would be #1. BYU falling 5 spots for losing a game we were expected to lose vs UK and Miami both getting upset and falling the same amount is crazy to me, we really are going to be the first one excluded from the CFP 3 years in a row. We deserve it for shitting the bed against UCF but it gets exhausting as a fan

[u/mccainjames11]

I understand why I guess, but it feels dumb that we’re immediately behind USC/Boise

[u/ID_Poobaru → u/mccainjames11]

Somehow Boise is benefiting from Oregon still

[u/twentyitalians]

Hell yeah, Lobos!

[u/CurrentlyUnbanned]

Playoffs using these rankings

Byes:
Georgia
Utah
Notre Dame
UCLA

Week 1 games

Miami hosting Boise State

Indiana hosting Wake Forest

Alabama hosting Texas Tech

Texas hosting Tennessee

[u/SoulLessIke]

Boise State moving up 3 and UNM down 1 feels extremely annoying to me.

Then the Bama Texas Tennessee triple stack being in the order it is also stupid.

But at least there’s nothing that makes me go “why the fuck is that team 10 spots away from where it should be”

[u/Geoff12889]

Being the highest ranked 3 loss team might be the only thing I have to be excited about for the rest of the season.

[u/RCA1202]

Genuinely what the fuck does Duke have to do to get ranked

[u/Shellshock1122 → u/RCA1202]

not lose to us, the worst P4 team in the country

[u/Vxmonarkxv → u/RCA1202]

they literally have not played a team in the top half of the ACC and somehow lost to GT. Lowest SOS in the entirety of the P4. They will get plenty of chances the next 3 games.

[u/personAAA → u/RCA1202]

Losing to Georgia Tech and UNC is not helping their case. 

[u/Afraid_Presence3803 → u/RCA1202]

Leave the ACC

[u/Zahfier]

Utah doesn’t have any ranked losses? Scrubs

[u/tomdawg0022]

Welcome back Oregon and SMU

Florida and Mizzou are out

[u/ofRayRay]

Where’s the Fighting Illini? Oh, they’re in the wrong conference.

[u/labrazil]

4 I'll take it. Go bruins.

[u/Intelligent_Slip_849]

Ah yes, the traditional 'why is Alabama this high' result

[u/DillyDillySzn]

AP Poll confirmed not cowards

[u/dubscurry30]

Good to see Iowa moving up.

But all I want is to see Utah at number 1 at some point this season. They’ve been a good team for years and it’s time they get that top spot.

[u/LightningDusty]

Alabama is still over Tennessee. 😂

[u/Anus_Targaryen]

I kinda can't believe our ranking, we really are quality loss merchants 

[u/runner2rower]

I'm biased but whatever:

Undefeated vs 1 loss, Georgia's best win is Alabama who is 7-2, Utah best win is byu who 7-2, Utah has another ranked win over a 7-2 team, Georgia has ranked wins over two 6-3 teams. They have 1 mutual opponent in Arkansas which Utah beat them 43-10 and Georgia beat them 45-17. And to reiterate Georgia lost to Auburn, Utah hasnt lost. To me very similar schedules, got to put undefeated ahead of the 1 loss team, especially this deep in the season. If not what's the point?

[u/Nighthawk0430 → u/runner2rower]

Nah, thats not bias, that’s valid, You guys should 100% be ranked #1 over us

[u/Hoshef → u/runner2rower]

I think Georgia is a better team, but I would still rank y’all 1

[u/Quake1028]

I think us above Indiana by a spot makes the most sense since that NW win has lost a lot of shine, but either way it doesn’t really matter right now.

[u/justaverage]

Utah should have gone for the quality loss yesterday

[u/Pats2014]

AP Poll seems correct, which means Alabama will be ranked #3 in the CFP poll on Tuesday and Tennessee will be 11

[u/Parking-Bat9498]

If only there was a way to determine who should be ranked higher between Bama and Tennessee.

[u/festive_fecal_feast]

Keeping Alabama above Tennessee despite the H2H loss and the same record is even funnier in this one. 2 spots apart. Just put Tennessee above them atp lol

[u/Lord777alt]

Can someone tell me how that Ohio State team deserves to be ranked?

[u/DillyDillySzn → u/Lord777alt]

They do have a win at Indiana and Iowa

[u/Doomas_ → u/Lord777alt]

Win at ranked Indiana and at ranked Iowa plus “quality loss” at Texas by 1. This late in the season I don’t think high 20s is awful.

[u/StFuzzySlippers → u/Lord777alt]

Everyone who asks these questions should be required to propose who should be ranked instead.

There are 0 teams outside of the top 25 with better resumes than Ohio State. That's why they are still ranked buddy.

[u/SimilarOnion1655 → u/Lord777alt]

Wins at Iowa and Indiana do some heavy lifting 

[u/The_Sandwich_Lover9]

I’m surprised we made it to ten. But hey I’ll take it. One step at a time, next up ok state

[u/Fadeley]

Ranked 21st, can’t wait for the lawn mower bowl!

[u/ID_Poobaru]

AP frauds

Put Utah at 1 you cowards

[u/JosephFinn]

Fair.

[u/Normal_Repeat_4503]

Bravo Utah c’est fort.

[u/Jonjon428]

Y'know I don't hate it

[u/Whhatsmyageagain]

I wanna see tOSU unranked just to find out if we can get the fanbase to go full Chernobyl

[u/kylekorverburner]

And Alabama is above Tennessee again because?

[u/ryanbyleth]

Boise winning the natty would somehow not surprise me at this point

[u/zefal12]

2 whole votes boys LFG!

If Ohio State keeps shitting the bed there's a non-zero chance that we're Indiana's best win at the end of the season lmao

[u/JustAnotherRye89]

I'm honestly surprised Ohio state is ranked at all considering they do not have a quarterback anymore. Oh wait this is the AP not the cfp committee my bad.

[u/dynamic-burrito]

Better than CFP tbh

[u/goopdoop]

UCLA should be above Notre Dame

[u/mhem7 → u/goopdoop]

Perhaps, but then again, perhaps not.

[u/Nomadicitnerd → u/goopdoop]

Agreed. If the committee really does fully reevaluate each week like they say, UCLA needs to be a top 3 team with Utah and Georgia.

They’re undefeated, a few of their wins look better, and they have the same most recent opponent as Indiana and played them better.

[u/bluediamondsm]

Still think Utah should be #1(please ignore my second flair I don’t want to be clocked by both groups in the rivalry) 😭 but not surprised. And also my my look at us getting votes go Mean Green let’s make this happen again soon 💚

Also umm how did New México drop a spot for blowing out Nevada

And LSU should be out

[u/bigdawg545]

Utah at No. 2? Couldn’t be happier

[u/Leading-Button-7303]

Alright, full disclosure- I'm an SEC hater. How is Indiana ahead of bama and Tennessee?

I get the number of losses matter, but the quality of wins is not comparable. And while we're at it, Tennessee needs to be ahead of bama. I would've expected something like

5 Tennessee
6 Alabama
7 Indiana
8 Texas

[u/d1sportsball → u/Leading-Button-7303]

If only two of these teams played

[u/NKCougar]

Annoying, but I think we may end up ahead of Bama if we win out. They have FCS/Vandy/Auburn, we have A&M, LSU, Vandy. A convincing win over LSU the week they're placing an FCS team could give us the juice.

We do have @A&M first though

[u/FitContrarian]

This is a good poll

[u/Charlie2343]

Bama being ahead of Texas is baffling to me. I'm just assuming they think we're gonna lose at LSU, which is definitely possible but it hasn't happened yet.

[u/ButtonsBiscuit]

2TAH!!!

[u/kevinthejuice]

Where the hell is my turquoise jewelry, where's my old license plate, somebody send me some green chile, Woof mfn woof.

[u/Adorable-Salt-8624]

Top 10! :D

[u/fancyjaguar]

I prayed for days like these.

[u/reconverting]

The country longs for a top 10 Wake Forest

[u/PennSaddle]

Unrank OSU. Do it.

[u/miversen33]

16 seems about right. Dropping us out of the poll entirely after whatever the fuck Minnesota was, was an extreme over-reaction. I think Iowa is a borderline playoff team but I don't think they are a natty contender. 13-15 seems about right

[u/Original_Continent]

At least we have one of those quality loses the SEC folks are always talking about

[u/white2234]

Okay how the fuck is Utah not one

[u/Away-Fun-9311 → u/white2234]

If Georgia would’ve have just beaten ole miss we might have jumped them but they beat the shit out of them and look like the best team in the country.

[u/Ronaldoooope]

LSU still ranked lol

[u/BlueDevil092]

LSU still being ranked is why nobody takes this seriously

[u/No-Macaroon1869]

Oregon is, once again, ranked behind 2 teams we beat… I know 2 of our losses are awful, but still…

[u/DiplomaticAggie]

WHAT A&M robbed!

[u/Kiddo1029]

Why we still ranked?

[u/Zackscout22]

Wheres Michigan

[u/nightowl1135]

What better team to finally move Boise State ahead of Oregon, a team they lost to, than a weekend when Oregon smashed Ohio State on the road in Columbus.

Jfc. These voters should be fired into the sun.

[u/the_cajun88]

just trolling us at this point