NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 19

With a bunch more bowls this week, way too many teams moved around to list them all, especially those near the top. Florida State lost in the playoff, and fell to #2. Curiously, Oregon, who beat them, is only up to #3 so far. I opted to include Sunday's bowl game in "Week 19", so now there are only 2 games left in the season, the I-AA championship, and of course the CFP Championship, pitting Oregon against my new #1, Ohio State.

Since I've been tracking them all year, I'll just note that Missouri's bowl win brought them up to #8 from #10, which should be about where they finish.

TCU's big win didn't move them up in my standings, because Boise State also won, Marshall was a full 2 wins ahead, and the top 4 teams got big strength of schedule boosts by playing each other, while TCU played a team tied at #15.

I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine at a New Year's party, about how a the 128 teams in the FBS would make for a perfect 7-round tournament. It was just a thought experiment; we didn't think we'd find some great solution that everyone would be happy with. We figured there could be a 5-6 game conference schedule plus 1 or 2 out of conference games to determine seeding, which means we'd need a lot of tiebreakers. Then, it's just a bracket from there, and your champion will definitely be a team that won its last 7 games of the season. It'd be quite a shift from the status quo, and would almost certainly never happen in one fell swoop. But, we heard for years that no playoff would be possible due to scheduling concerns, and here we are with a 2-round playoff, with plenty of rumblings of adding a third round due to strong #5-#8 teams. I guess what I'm saying is, if we ever have a 128-team playoff, you can say you read it here first.

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

2014 History and #1s

Week 1 Everybody who was 1-0
Week 2 LSU
Week 3 Oklahoma
Week 4 North Carolina State
Week 5 Nebraska
Week 6 Auburn
Week 7 Mississippi State
Week 8 Florida State
Week 9 Mississippi State
Week 10 Mississippi State
Week 11 Mississippi State
Week 12 Florida State
Week 13 Florida State
Week 14 Florida State
Week 15 Florida State
Week 16 Florida State
Week 17 Florida State
Week 18 Florida State