College football rankings: Notre Dame moves into top four as upsets lead to shakeup in CBS Sports 134

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Usually when we get to the final weeks of the college football season, the rankings can get pretty static from week-to-week. But what we saw in Week 13 was highly unusual as a slate that is often defined by pre-rivalry week warmups delivered a bountiful collection of upsets that upended the perceived order of the top teams in the country. 

Sorting out a top 25 is hard enough, but the movement throughout the CBS Sports 134 — our comprehensive ranking of every FBS team — was dramatic coming out of the weekend. Of all the teams in the top 23 spots of our rankings, only three (No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Texas) are still in the same position as the rankings update heading into Week 14. That includes a small but significant jump inside the top five where Notre Dame jumped ahead of Penn State to take over the No. 4 spot that was occupied by Indiana prior to the Hoosiers’ loss in Columbus over the weekend. The Fighting Irish played in one of the few ranked-on-ranked games of the week and dominated, beating Army 49-14 and sending the Black Knights tumbling down to No. 23 in the rankings. 

A big reason for the shakeups throughout the rankings was a string of upsets in the SEC where Alabama, Ole Miss and Texas A&M lost as road favorites to teams that, prior to Saturday, were not bowl eligible. We’ve got the expected rankings adjustments for those squads — Alabama and Ole Miss each falling seven spots to the mid-teens, while Texas A&M dropped just four spots to No. 20 — but also some bumps up for Florida and Oklahoma after those upset wins secured bowl…

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Author : Chip Patterson

Publish date : 2024-11-25 16:02:00

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