College football rankings: Texas moves to No. 2, Penn State jumps Notre Dame in new CBS Sports 134

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The 2024 regular season concluded this weekend and now all that’s left before the announcements of the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff and bowl games are next week’s conference championship games. For many teams, the 2024 season is done and their place in the college football rankings is mostly determined. For others, there is still plenty of opportunity left to improve their position before we close the book on 2024 and offer final judgement for every FBS team. 

So while many teams in the CBS Sports 134, our comprehensive ranking of every FBS team, have mostly solidified their position in the rankings, the final week of the regular season provided some interesting movement that sets the stage for the postseason ahead. There was, of course, the drops for Ohio State (down five spots to No. 7), Miami (down four spots to No. 13) and Clemson (down five spots to No. 17) after Week 14 losses, but also some shuffling within the top 15 as our voters reacted to the 12th data point of the season. 

So while Texas simply moved up into Ohio State’s No. 2 spot, this week’s rankings have Penn State jumping ahead of Notre Dame for No. 3 after the Nittany Lions blew out Maryland and Notre Dame outlasted USC in a high-scoring shootout in Los Angeles. Our CBS Sports voters also noted Tennessee overcoming a slow start at Vanderbilt for a double-digit win, granting the Vols more support as they jumped Boise State to take over No. 9. 

And at the edge of the top 15 we see the voters break habit when it comes to head-to-head results, as South Carolina jumped ahead of an Ole Miss…


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Author : Chip Patterson

Publish date : 2024-12-02 17:01:00

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