NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 6

I realize there's a huge element of randomness to a college football game, but I still feel slightly vindicated when a team that I had ranked much lower than the real polls gets upset. Oklahoma was that team this week, losing from the alleged #3 spot, while I had them down at #24.

At the top of the list, the top 3 remained in order, and the next 8 all won and mostly just shuffled around, except for South Florida, who fell due to their bye week. Michigan was the top team to lose, falling to #27 and below the team that beat them, now-#19 Michigan State.

UTEP and Charlotte both lost to fall to 0-6 to match UMass, but couldn't take over the #130 spot. In happier news for 0-5 teams, Bowling Green and Nevada both won their first game of the season.

Missouri is now in that weird zone where they can gain ground even by losing, moving from #112 to #108. Keep in mind that I don't consider the score of these games, per the original BCS Computer Ranking rules, so it has nothing to do with their reasonably close loss to Kentucky (40-34). Instead, their strength of schedule was boosted enough to overcome the effects of the loss, since Kentucky is now 5-1 and #18. They'll likely get an even stronger version of the same effect next week, facing #1 Georgia. Or, maybe they'll play spoiler and pull out a win on the road, but I doubt it.

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

2017 History and #1s
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Week 3 Georgia
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