Week 11 had no effect on the top end of the rankings as the AP top 11 all won admittedly with varying degrees of ease.\u00a0 UCF continued their unbeaten run and barring a disaster should be playing in a nice Bowl game again this year. With the top 4 all winning easily though they have no real hope of making it into the playoffs due to their relatively weak schedule. However, the other top 10 teams are all waiting to pounce on any slip-up and both Georgia and Ohio State had nice wins which will have piqued the Committee’s interest.<\/p>\n
The only real surprises were Kentucky getting a beating by Tenessee and NC State slipping up at home to Wake Forest – although the Deamon Deacons are probably better than their record would suggest with 4 of their 5 losses coming against ranked opponents.<\/p>\n
1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alabama – Beat Miss State 24-0, Second consecutive shutout against a Ranked SEC team!<\/p>\n
2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clemson –\u00a0 Won 27-7 at Boston College<\/p>\n
3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notre Dame – Beat Florida State 42-13<\/p>\n
4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michigan -Won 42-7 at Rutgers<\/p>\n
5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georgia – Beat Auburn 27-10<\/p>\n
6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oklahoma – Beat Oklahoma State 48-47<\/p>\n
7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West Virginia – Beat TCU 47-10<\/p>\n
8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ohio State – Won 26-6 at Michigan State<\/p>\n
9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LSU –\u00a0 \u00a0won 24-17 at Arkansas<\/p>\n
10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington State – won 31-7 at Colorado<\/p>\n
11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UCF – Beat navy 34-24 That’s 22 wins in a row<\/p>\n
12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kentucky – Lost 24-7 at Tenessee<\/p>\n
13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Syracuse – Beat Louisville 54-23<\/p>\n
14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Utah State – Beat San Jose State 62-24<\/p>\n
15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Texas – Beat Texas Tech 41-34<\/p>\n
16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fresno State – Lost 24-17 at Boise<\/p>\n
17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boston College – Lost at home to Clemson<\/p>\n
18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mississippi State Lost at Alabama<\/p>\n
19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Florida – Beat South Carolina 35-31<\/p>\n
20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington – Didn’t play<\/p>\n
21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Penn State – Beat Wisconsin 22-10<\/p>\n
22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NC State – lost 27-23 at home to Wake Forest<\/p>\n
23\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa State – Beat Baylor 28-14<\/p>\n
24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michigan State Lost at home to Ohio State<\/p>\n
25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati -beat South Florida 35-23<\/p>\n
Six teams managed 50 plus points this week with SMU and Utah State taking top honours with 62 each.<\/p>\n
The only real contender here was Temple v Houston which ended 59-49. Temple led from the get go and 3 Houston fumbles added to the drama. Huston looked like UCF’s main challengers for the at-large spot a few games ago but two losses in a row have probably put pay to that. Amazingly though they have still managed to score at least 31 points in every game this season<\/p>\n
Oklahoma’s\u00a0narrow win over local rivals Oklahoma state had it all lead changes comebacks and decided by a missed 2 point conversion attempt in the last minute. Did I mention 1342 yards net offense and 850 yards passing? OKSU’s Taylor Cornelius had more passing yards that there was in the whole Southern Miss v UAB game – and that one went into overtime!<\/p>\n
Got to be Washington States easy win at Colorado – the same Colorado who started 5-0 and have lost ever since. Still, this was a pressure game and Gardner\u00a0Minshew stepped up again enhancing his Heisman credentials. The Cougars are the surprise team of the year (although we did have them at 18 in our preseason rankings)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 11 had no effect on the top end of the rankings as the AP top 11 all won admittedly with varying degrees of ease.\u00a0 UCF continued their unbeaten run and barring a disaster should be playing in a nice Bowl game again this year. With the top 4 all winning easily though they have…<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}