NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 14

We're sort of at the end of the regular season, at least for FBS teams not named Army and Navy. One of these years one of the service academies is going to be a solid #4 team and really confound the committee about whether they should include them in the playoff, or enact some emergency policy change of waiting until all the games are actually complete before declaring the playoff field.

There was really only one big loss by my rankings, Wisconsin losing to Ohio State, to no longer be undefeated. If you went by the real rankings, some top-tier losses were unavoidable due to top teams vying for the conference titles, such as Clemson-Miami, and Georgia-Auburn. If I were making the bracket, we'd have Georgia hosting Wisconsin, and Clemson hosting University of Central Florida in the semi-finals. Instead, the committee skipped over my #3 and #4 teams, and bumped Georgia down to #3. So Clemson gets Alabama, and Georgia is the designated road team against Oklahoma. UCF is the only remaining undefeated team, and to me that means they should get a playoff spot. They can't have performed any better than they did unless you're looking at individual game scores and stats, so to deny them a playoff spot seems to be to admit that some teams start the season without a chance.

Missouri wasn't in any conference title game, but the 2 SEC teams in the playoff gave them a boost up to a bigger bowl, The Texas Bowl, against Texas. Seems like a hostile game environment to me, but I'll take it.

UTEP remains at the bottom, with obviously none of those teams playing this week. It's possible some FCS results over the next few weeks will cause a little jitter and bump them above Rice, and I'll be the first and only one to report it if it does.

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

2017 History and #1s
Week 1 South Florida
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