Florida State reclaims No. 1 spot in Power Rankings after Week 10
With the College Football Playoff selection committee releasing its first official rankings last Tuesday, we've entered some sort of insane version of the NCAA tournament in a lot of ways. Teams are jockeying for position, and in this six-week stretch, contenders are going to be knocked off while others rise above.
There’s no “One Shining Moment,” but with how often we're hearing Pharrell’s “Come Get It Bae," that Fall Out Boy song and that Matt and Kim song from the Buick commercial, there’s still an official soundtrack. It’s why you’re humming those to yourself in the middle of the week. You can’t escape college football. It’s like some sort of Star Wars Force held together by pigskin and fight songs.
College football is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us. It penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Or something like that.
Here are the Power Rankings for Week 11:
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1. Florida State Seminoles
PREVIOUS: 2
RECORD: 8-0
Next game: Saturday vs. Virginia
2. Mississippi State Bulldogs
PREVIOUS: 1
RECORD: 8-0
Next game: Saturday vs. Tennessee-Martin
3. Auburn Tigers
PREVIOUS: 4
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Ole Miss, 35-31 Next game: Saturday vs. Texas A&M
4. Oregon Ducks
PREVIOUS: 3
RECORD: 8-1
Last game: Beat Stanford, 45-16 Next game: Saturday at Utah
5. Michigan State Spartans
PREVIOUS: 5
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Michigan, 35-11 Next game: Saturday vs. Ohio State
6. Alabama Crimson Tide
PREVIOUS: 7
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Tennessee, 34-20 Next game: Saturday at LSU
7. TCU Horned Frogs
PREVIOUS: 11
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat West Virginia, 31-30 Next game: Saturday vs. Kansas State
8. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
PREVIOUS: 8
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Navy, 49-39 Next game: Saturday at Arizona State
9. Baylor Bears
PREVIOUS: 10
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Kansas, 60-14 Next game: Saturday at Oklahoma
10. Kansas State Wildcats
PREVIOUS: 12
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Oklahoma State, 48-14 Next game: Saturday at TCU
11. Arizona State Sun Devils
PREVIOUS: 13
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Utah, 19-16 (OT) Next game: Saturday vs. Notre Dame
12. Ohio State Buckeyes
PREVIOUS: 14
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Illinois, 55-14 Next game: Saturday at Michigan State
13. Ole Miss Rebels
PREVIOUS: 6
RECORD: 7-2
Last game: Lost to Auburn, 35-31 Next game: Saturday vs. Presbyterian
14. Nebraska Cornhuskers
PREVIOUS: 15
RECORD: 8-1
Last game: Beat Purdue, 35-14 Next game: Nov. 15 at Wisconsin
15. Oklahoma Sooners
PREVIOUS: 16
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Beat Iowa State, 59-14 Next game: Saturday vs. Baylor
16. LSU Tigers
PREVIOUS: 17
RECORD: 7-2
Last game: Beat Ole Miss, 10-7 Next game: Saturday vs. Alabama
17. Georgia Bulldogs
PREVIOUS: 9
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Lost to Florida, 38-20 Next game: Saturday at Kentucky
18. Clemson Tigers
PREVIOUS: 22
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Beat Syracuse, 16-6 Next game: Thursday at Wake Forest
19. Duke Blue Devils
PREVIOUS: 24
RECORD: 7-1
Last game: Beat Pitt, 51-48 (2OT) Next game: Saturday at Syracuse
20. UCLA Bruins
RECORD: 7-2
Last game: Beat Arizona, 17-7 Next game: Saturday at Washington
21. Arizona Wildcats
PREVIOUS: 17
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Lost to UCLA, 17-7 Next game: Saturday vs. Colorado
22. Utah Utes
PREVIOUS: 19
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Lost to Arizona State, 19-16 (OT) Next game: Saturday vs. Oregon
23. Marshall Thundering Herd
PREVIOUS: 23
RECORD: 8-0
Last game: Beat Florida Atlantic, 35-16 Next game: Saturday at Southern Miss
24. Colorado State Rams
PREVIOUS: 25
RECORD: 8-1
Last game: Beat San Jose State, 38-31 Next game: Saturday vs. Hawaii
25. Wisconsin Badgers
RECORD: 6-2
Last game: Beat Rutgers, 37-0 Next game: Saturday at Purdue
Next five: Missouri, USC, West Virginia, Boise State, Those little hand warmer things
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