NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 17

It's Christmas Eve, but I'm still posting my power rankings for this week. There were only 8 bowl games this week, and no FCS games (the only one left is the championship, which will be 2 days before the FBS Championship), or lower division games, as they've finished their seasons. Georgia of course retains the number 1 spot, because the best team to play this week was #10 Toledo, who lost to fall to #12. Florida Atlantic won 50-3 to rise from #16 to #9. I should point out as I often do, my ranking system has no idea what the score of the game is, just who won, so the result would be the same if they had won 7-3 or 50-49.

There was some scuttlebutt this week about Florida State being technically bowl-ineligible due to their 6-6 record and their FCS opponent being non-countable due to them not handing out 90% of the scholarship limit. It seems to have been hand-waved away by pointing out how not all benefits given to the FCS school's athlete's were being considered when calculating the number. Frankly I'm no expert, maybe the threshold was met and maybe it wasn't, but I didn't expect for a minute Florida State would be removed from a bowl game over such an oversight. That's a whole lot of tickets to try to refund to FSU fans, and to try to sell to their replacement. Also, that replacement team figured they were done for the year, so it might be near impossible to get the full team and coaching staff back together to prepare in time.

Anyway, Merry Christmas, and enjoy the 21 bowl games this week!

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

2017 History and #1s
Week 1 South Florida
Week 2 UCLA
Week 3 Georgia
Week 4 Georgia
Week 5 Georgia
Week 6 Georgia
Week 7 Alabama
Week 8 Alabama
Week 9 Georgia
Week 10 Georgia
Week 11 Alabama
Week 12 Alabama
Week 13 Wisconsin
Week 14 Georgia
Week 15 Georgia
Week 16 Georgia