{"id":210,"date":"2018-10-29T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=210"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:17:19","slug":"biggest-ever-shake-up-in-the-ap-rankings-after-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/biggest-ever-shake-up-in-the-ap-rankings-after-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Shake Up In The AP Rankings after Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 9&#8217;s slew of surprise results (11 losses for ranked teams) has ended in a near-unprecedented 7 changes in the AP top 25. This is the most there has been since it switched to a 25-team ranking in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AP_poll#\">1989<\/a>. The following dropped out:<\/p>\n<p><strong>15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington\u00a0 (PAC 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oregon (PAC 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wisconsin (Big 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South Florida (AAC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Carolina State (ACC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stanford (PAC 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Appalachian State (Sun Belt)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0To be replaced with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Houston who came in at 17 (AAC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Utah State at 18 (MWC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fresno State at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>20 (MWC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mississippi State at 21(SEC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syracuse at 22 (ACC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia at 23 (ACC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston College at 24 (ACC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So a bad day for the PAC 12 who now who&#8217;s hopes of a playoff place now rest exclusively with Washington State, and a sad day for the Sun Belt who rarely get a team ranked (Appalachian State had never been ranked before and only lasted a week).<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain West is finally getting some recognition and Utah State and Fresno are currently on course to meet in their Conference Final.\u00a0 The winner here might make a New Year Bowl game as the att large team if the AAC slips up.<\/p>\n<p>Houston is now the AAC&#8217;s other ranked team and they are almost guaranteed to play UCF in their Conference Final. Having scored over 41 points in every game this year (including in that basketball-like 63 &#8211; 49 loss to Texas Tech. They are the most likely to have caught the Bowl Committee&#8217;s eye. It is remotely possible that two Group of Five teams might make the BCS Bowls as at-large selections this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can check week nines results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2018-week-9-review-playoff-picture-becomes-clearer-despite-the-chaos\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 9&#8217;s slew of surprise results (11 losses for ranked teams) has ended in a near-unprecedented 7 changes in the AP top 25. This is the most there has been since it switched to a 25-team ranking in 1989. The following dropped out: 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington\u00a0 (PAC 12) 19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oregon (PAC 12) 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wisconsin (Big 10)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","tag-ap-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}