NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 8

24 teams joined the season already in progress, bringing us to an even 100. That means we're still 30 teams short, but it's starting to feel like a real season. Except, of course, for the massive differential in games played. This post is a bit late this week because I had layers of confusion about which teams were added. At first I saw 23 new teams, but I forgot than my software does not like the accent in San José State. Once I fixed that, we were up to 24. But the fact that there were only 11 teams in the big pileups of ties meant that only those 22 teams came out of 1-0 vs 0-1 matchups. That's because the whole Big 10 and most of the Mountain West began play this week, but Air Force had already played a game. Long story short, #96 Rice also randomly started this week, after having several conference games scheduled. C-USA has sort of a microcosm of football as a whole, where teams have played very different numbers of games.

BYU and Clemson won again while SMU lost, solidifying them at #1 and #2. #4 Alabama and #5 Marshall are sneaking up though, both a win behind at 5-0

Missouri is up to #44 thanks to a win over #54 Kentucky. Everyone acted as though this was a big win for Missouri, but Kentucky really doesn't look all that good. I guess Missouri doesn't either, so it's a good win.

UL Monroe lost to hold tight onto last place, which is now #101. That feels much worse than last week's #77, even though both were last place.

1	BYU	6-0
2	Clemson	6-0
3	Miami	5-1
4	Alabama	5-0
5	Marshall	5-0
6	SMU	5-1
7	Coastal Carolina	5-0
8	Army	6-1
9	Liberty	6-0
10	Notre Dame	5-0
11	Louisiana	4-1
12	UAB	4-2
13	North Carolina	4-1
14	Oklahoma State	4-0
15	Cincinnati	4-0
16	UTSA	4-3
17	NC State	4-2
18	Kansas State	4-1
19	Boston College	4-2
20	Georgia	3-1
21	Memphis	3-1
T-22	Arkansas State	3-3
T-22	Iowa State	3-2
24	Virginia Tech	3-2
25	Appalachian State	3-1
T-26	Louisiana Tech	3-3
T-26	Wake Forest	3-2
28	Oklahoma	3-2
29	Texas A&M	3-1
30	UCF	3-2
31	Texas	3-2
32	Auburn	3-2
33	Troy	3-2
34	Pittsburgh	3-4
T-35	Navy	3-3
T-35	West Virginia	3-2
37	Houston	2-1
38	Georgia Southern	3-2
39	South Alabama	3-2
40	UTEP	3-3
41	Georgia State	2-2
42	Tulsa	2-1
43	Florida State	2-4
44	Missouri	2-2
45	Florida	2-1
T-46	Tennessee	2-3
T-46	Charlotte	2-2
48	Texas Tech	2-3
49	Louisville	2-4
50	Arkansas	2-2
51	Tulane	2-4
52	Georgia Tech	2-4
53	Western Kentucky	2-4
54	Kentucky	2-3
55	Florida Atlantic	1-1
56	South Carolina	2-3
57	North Texas	2-3
58	LSU	2-2
59	San Jose State	1-0
60	TCU	1-3
61	Air Force	1-1
T-62	Wisconsin	1-0
T-62	Ohio State	1-0
T-62	Indiana	1-0
T-62	Michigan	1-0
T-62	Rutgers	1-0
T-62	Purdue	1-0
T-62	Boise State	1-0
T-62	Nevada	1-0
T-62	Hawai'i	1-0
T-62	Northwestern	1-0
T-62	San Diego State	1-0
73	Virginia	1-4
74	Middle Tennessee	2-5
75	Temple	1-2
76	Baylor	1-2
77	Southern Mississippi	1-4
78	Ole Miss	1-4
79	Mississippi State	1-3
80	Syracuse	1-5
81	East Carolina	1-3
82	Texas State	1-6
83	Duke	1-5
84	UMass	0-1
T-85	Illinois	0-1
T-85	Nebraska	0-1
T-85	Penn State	0-1
T-85	Minnesota	0-1
T-85	Michigan State	0-1
T-85	Iowa	0-1
T-85	Utah State	0-1
T-85	Wyoming	0-1
T-85	Fresno State	0-1
T-85	Maryland	0-1
T-85	UNLV	0-1
96	Rice	0-1
97	South Florida	1-5
98	Florida International	0-3
99	Vanderbilt	0-3
100	Kansas	0-5
101	UL Monroe	0-6

2020 History and #1s
Week 1 UAB
Week 2 Army
Week 3 Miami
Week 4 Miami
Week 5 SMU
Week 6 BYU
Week 7 BYU