College Football Playoff Rankings: Georgia remains at Four Headed into Texas A&M
For the second straight week, the Georgia Bulldogs have come in at the fourth and final College Football Playoff spot following their win over Auburn.
Though the road win against a solid Tigers team is their best win to date, there simply was nowhere for the Bulldogs to go with the top-3 teams remaining undefeated.
Here's this week's CFP Rankings Top-10:
- LSU Tigers
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Georgia
- Alabama
- Oregon
- Utah
- Penn State
- Oklahoma
- Minnesota
With everyone in the top-10 of last week's College Football Playoff Rankings winning, there wasn't much room for alterations within the rankings. Everybody, for the most part, did their job. Don't you worry though, there are fireworks around the corner...
Questions still to be answered:
The College Football Playoff Committee has told us since the beginning that key injuries are one of the many determining factors that go into the CFP rankings. So, with one of the best quarterbacks going down, we all wondered what would happen to Alabama's CFP hopes.
We got somewhat of an answer tonight, with Bama staying at five. But can they hold off the rest of the seemingly healthy one-loss teams? Even if they win at Auburn next weekend.
Pac-12
Can Oregon and Utah both make it to the Pac-12 championship game with just one loss? Oregon has to play Arizona State and Oregon State to end the season. Utah has Arizona and Colorado remaining.
Assuming the winner the Pac-12 championship game is a battle between two 11-1 football teams, does the committee look at that as a de facto play-in game?
It's arguable that Georgia's road win over Auburn was last weekend's highest quality win in college football. Though discussions are to be had for Oklahoma overcoming a 21-point halftime deficit - on the road - against a previously unbeaten Baylor Bears team. But they didn't exactly vault up the rankings this week.
If Oklahoma wins the Big 12 convincingly and gets some help out of the SEC, can they leapfrog a one-loss Pac-12 champion? As of this week, it doesn't look like it.
Ogio State Coach, Ryan Day
Ohio State has by far the toughest remaining schedule. After facing just one Top-15 opponent in the first ten games, they play Penn State and Michigan to close out the season. Then they will draw whoever comes out of the Big Ten West, which looks to be Minnesota.
Could Ohio State survive one loss with their remaining schedule as long as they win the Big 10? Or are they in "win out" mode like everyone else except LSU?
