Both Ohio State and Wisconsin held the same spot as last week in the rankings.
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No. 3: Despite being unbeaten on the year, the Buckeyes fell to the No. 3 spot in this weeks poll.
Barrett, 20, apologized to his family, Ohio State and OSU fans in a brief statement at a hearing in Columbus Municipal Court where his lawyer said Barrett took responsibility for driving under the influence. We’re still waiting for it.
Should the Hawkeyes be ranked higher than Notre Dame?
Finally in our neck of the woods, the Big Ten picture looks pretty cut and dry. What did we learn from all of this? If the Hawkeyes win both of those games, they’ll already have clinched the Big Ten West division. The automatic spot is available only to a conference champion from one of those five leagues. Though that might not make things hard on the committee as much as it would make things hard on the SEC.
How is Iowa ahead of all these other undefeated teams?
But what if that doesn’t happen and the Tigers are sitting at 10-1? “It’s a really good sidebar to what we have going as an entire team”.
Notre Dame needs a lot more help than you might think.. Will the committee be cool with a rematch? If Clemson wins out, it’s in. Baylor, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma are all poised to jump into the top four.
The top four’s current configuration would give the Orange Bowl a Clemson-Notre Dame matchup.
Don’t sleep on the Utes if they’re able to run the table and finish with wins over MI, at OR, Cal, UCLA, and, most likely, Stanford. Of course, but it would still be an interesting discussion. “That’s the first piece of real strength we’ve seen from them, with that win over TCU”. They were at number five and did move up a spot when LSU was dropped, but it shows that the committee doesn’t mind the Fighting Irish not being in a conference.
Stanford (8-1) rose to seventh and Oklahoma State (9-0) jumped from 14th to eighth after its win over TCU.
So, for right now, late in the game, you can’t survive a loss.
Baylor over Oklahoma State? Baylor’s best win so far is … Kansas State? Texas Tech?
Oklahoma State still behind other teams?
Could leave the SEC with nothing but two-loss teams. Florida Gators 12. Oklahoma Sooners 13. That changes if Baylor comes up with a win over Oklahoma this week, but for now, that Pokes win over the Horned Frogs deserved more respect. The top four teams in the final standings make the playoffs. It’s still possible to do this. The Tigers could move back into the top four should it win out and if Alabama loses one of its remaining two Southeastern Conference games at No. 17 Mississippi State (7-2) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on CBS and at Auburn (5-4) on November 28. “I’m just truly sorry”, Barrett said. Starting at the very top and working the way down, just like the CFP committee does it, start with the top team and flow everything from there. This would mark the second year in a row that the Big 12 would be shut out. The Seminoles were ranked No. 2, No. 2, No. 3, No. 3, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 3 in 2014.
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Stanford: OR and Notre Dame at home, and the Pac-12 title game. Utah (CFP: No. 10) 8. Florida (CFP: No. 11) 9.
