Committee desperately wants Bama in the top 4, but with that loss to Ole Miss looking progressively worse, its a hard empirical case to make. Bama climbs three spots with their win over Mississippi State, but are in a distant #10.
Mike Leech's fighting cougars have cracked the top 25.
Top 25 (Explanation; Full Ranking):
- Notre Dame (nc)
- Clemson (nc)
- Iowa (nc)
- Ohio State (nc)
- Houston (+2)
- Memphis (-1)
- Oklahoma State (-1)
- Navy (+2)
- TCU (-1)
- Alabama (+3)
- Florida (+1)
- Northwestern (+3)
- Texas A&M (+6)
- Wisconsin (+4)
- Oklahoma (+8)
- LSU (-2)
- Michigan State (+4)
- Utah (-1)
- Mississippi State (+1)
- Michigan (+5)
- Ole Miss (+3)
- Stanford (-6)
- Toledo (+6)
- Baylor (-13)
- Washington State (+6)