Note: If you disagree, feel free to make your own top 15 prediction but please don’t try to pick a fight over a team you think I overrated or underrated. This isn’t my top 15, it’s my prediction for the AP top 15. Thanks
1 Alabama
2 Georgia
3 Ohio State
4 LSU
5 Clemson
6 OU
7 Notre Dame
8 Washington
9 Auburn
10 Penn State
11 West Virginia
12 UCF
13 Stanford
14 Michigan
15 Miami
I know Texas gets over-hyped a lot by the AP but I think even the AP won’t let UT pass other teams that won or didn’t play based on UT barely beating a team that was curb-stomped by WV and MissSt.
It would take either Penn State sliding 7 slots for their 1 point loss to Ohio State or Stanford sliding 9 slots for their loss to Notre Dame plus UT leap frogging Miami and Kentucky that each won easily.
I’d use the term playing down to UT. Rolling over implies OU loses. OU has won 3 of the last 4 and 6 of the last 8 but the last 3 wins were all close games.
I will neither agree or disagree with your projections because AP means nothing. No poll means anything until the first CFP poll comes out. When all is said and done I would like to see the playoff consist of Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, and Notre Dame. With the BIG, B12 and PAC12 excluded we would have an 8 team playoff next year.
Two moves that I didn’t see coming. West Virginia leap frogging Washington and Kentucky moving up 4 spots.
With Texas Tech going from 25th to no votes, USF becomes the only team on our schedule with a chance of being top 25 when the season ends unless we get to play in the championship game.
OSU lost to unranked Tech by 24, they drop out of the polls. They beat unranked Kansas by 20 and are back in the Top 25.
Tech beats Top 15 OSU by 24, gets ranked #25. Loses to #12 WVU by a TD and gets zero votes.
VT is ranked on the strength of beating FSU, William and Mary, and Duke, despite an embarrassing loss to Old Dominion. Yes the same ODU that East Carolina just beat.
Because people aren’t voting a top 25 purely on the last two weeks. They are voting based on the season results. Texas Tech has another loss to account for. They are 3-2, not 4-1.
Everybody is really good at critiquing who is getting votes and who isn’t getting votes, but I never see those people submit their own top 25. Try submitting a top 25 list and you will see it’s a lot easier to critique one or two choices than it is to submit a top 25 list that you can justify to everyone.