NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 15

With a grand total of 1 game between FBS eligible teams this week, the rankings didn't change much at the top. However, they changed more interestingly in the middle that I would have expected. I won't go through the mathematical details of each scenario, since the FCS and Division II and Division III semifinals play into some of them as well. Lots of position swapping happened, presumably from teams who played just 1 of Army or Navy, or who played a team who only played Army or Navy, or who played a team who played a team, etc.

First, the obvious big movers. Navy went from #59 to #44 with the win, and Army went from #111 to...#111? At 2-9 they were nestled between 2 2-10 teams last week, so it's not entirely surprising they didn't move much, also considering there isn't much further to go down in the top 120 than #111.

Penn State jumped from #37 to #36, ahead of Louisiana Tech

Everyone from #44 to #58 dropped due to Navy's ascendance, except East Carolina swapped positions with Louisiana-Lafayette to stay at #51.

Rice, at #77, jumped to a tie for #76 with Utah.

Air Force gained two spots to #78, passing Tennessee and Wake Forest

Auburn gained on Maryland to take #95.

South Florida and Western Michigan were tied at #98, which Western Michigan now holds alone.

New Mexico passed Kentucky to #103.

Hawaii is now #108 over Eastern Michigan.

Next week, Division II and III finish up, and the FCS will have its semifinals, and the FBS Bowls start Saturday.

1	Notre Dame	12-0
2	Ohio State	12-0
3	Alabama	12-1
4	Florida	11-1
5	Stanford	11-2
6	Kansas State	11-1
7	Oregon	11-1
8	Georgia	11-2
9	Northern Illinois	12-1
10	Texas A&M	10-2
11	South Carolina	10-2
12	Florida State	11-2
13	LSU	10-2
14	Oklahoma	10-2
15	Kent State	11-2
16	Nebraska	10-3
17	Clemson	10-2
18	San Jose State	10-2
19	Louisville	10-2
20	Utah State	10-2
21	Oregon State	9-3
22	Boise State	10-2
23	Cincinnati	9-3
24	UCLA	9-4
25	Tulsa	10-3
26	Toledo	9-3
27	Ball State	9-3
28	Rutgers	9-3
29	Northwestern	9-3
30	Arkansas State	9-3
31	San Diego State	9-3
32	Fresno State	9-3
33	Texas	8-4
34	Michigan	8-4
35	Wisconsin	8-5
36	Penn State	8-4
37	Louisiana Tech	9-3
38	UCF	9-4
39	Mississippi State	8-4
40	Baylor	7-5
41	Vanderbilt	8-4
42	Arizona	7-5
43	North Carolina	8-4
44	Navy	8-4
45	Syracuse	7-5
46	Oklahoma State	7-5
47	Middle Tennessee	8-4
48	West Virginia	7-5
49	USC	7-5
50	Miami (FL)	7-5
51	East Carolina	8-4
52	Louisiana-Lafayette	8-4
53	Louisiana-Monroe	8-4
54	Washington	7-5
55	TCU	7-5
56	Texas Tech	7-5
57	Bowling Green	8-4
58	Ohio	8-4
59	Arizona State	7-5
60	North Carolina State	7-5
61	Michigan State	6-6
62	Brigham Young	7-5
63	Iowa State	6-6
64	Ole Miss	6-6
65	Western Kentucky	7-5
66	Pittsburgh	6-6
67	Virginia Tech	6-6
68	Duke	6-6
69	Purdue	6-6
70	Nevada	7-5
71	Minnesota	6-6
72	Georgia Tech	6-7
73	Missouri	5-7
74	Southern Methodist	6-6
75	Central Michigan	6-6
76	Utah	5-7
76	Rice	6-6
78	Air Force	6-6
79	Tennessee	5-7
80	Wake Forest	5-7
81	Arkansas	4-8
82	Connecticut	5-7
83	Iowa	4-8
84	Troy	5-7
85	Houston	5-7
86	Marshall	5-7
87	Virginia	4-8
88	Temple	4-7
89	Indiana	4-8
90	Miami (OH)	4-8
91	Buffalo	4-8
92	Wyoming	4-8
93	North Texas	4-8
94	Colorado State	4-8
95	Auburn	3-9
96	Maryland	4-8
97	California	3-9
98	Western Michigan	4-8
99	South Florida	3-9
100	Memphis	4-8
101	Washington State	3-9
102	Florida Atlantic	3-9
103	New Mexico	4-9
104	Kentucky	2-10
105	Florida International	3-9
106	UAB	3-9
107	UTEP	3-9
108	Hawaii	3-9
109	Eastern Michigan	2-10
110	Illinois	2-10
111	Army	2-10
112	Boston College	2-10
113	Kansas	1-11
114	Tulane	2-10
115	UNLV	2-11
116	Colorado	1-11
117	Idaho	1-11
118	Akron	1-11
119	New Mexico State	1-11
120	Southern Miss	0-12

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