NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 14

Alabama and Clemson both won their conference title games and stayed #1 and #2. Ohio State, not playing due to not being in the title game for the Big Ten, fell just out of my top 4. Penn State and Wisconsin, who played for the Big Ten, were #7 and #8 before, so Penn State only managed to reach #6. The rankings came out early this week, since it's the final week, and as expected, my big difference from the committee is that I have Western Michigan #3, and they have them #15. I'd think they would at least bump them up to somewhere between 5-10, since the spots are pretty much meaningless once you pass #4. This just confirms that for a large number of teams, you'll have no shot at the championship, even with an undefeated season.

Compared to the committee, I matched #1, #2, and #4. And if you throw out Western Michigan for not being in the big money conferences, I guess, I got the 4 teams right but out of order. So - other than Western Michigan - I can generally agree with the committee's choices. Somewhat ironically, I think this is a year you could pick a pretty clear #1 and #2, so the old BCS system would have worked out OK with little controversy. Putting 4 teams into a playoff was supposed to solve the idea of a 3rd really good team getting left out, but of course it just causes people to argue over the teams that land around #5 or #6. I've heard ideas about expanding to 6 or 8 teams, but it will just shift the window of which picks are controversial down that many more places. Pundits need something to talk about I suppose. So do I, for that matter.

The bottom two teams remained in place as well, though a surprising number of teams toward the bottom did shuffle around a bit, due to their schedule strengths changing when their good opponents won or lost.

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

2016 History and #1s

Week 1 Everybody who was 1-0, Except Michigan and California
Week 2 Texas
Week 3 Texas A&M
Week 4 Texas A&M
Week 5 Tennessee
Week 6 Texas A&M
Week 7 Alabama
Week 8 Alabama
Week 9 Alabama
Week 10 Alabama
Week 11 Alabama
Week 12 Alabama
Week 13 Alabama