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11/10 21:18 CST Georgia nabs top spot in CFP rankings, while Notre Dame jumps
ahead of Miami after beating 'Canes
Georgia nabs top spot in CFP rankings, while Notre Dame jumps ahead of Miami
after beating 'Canes
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
Georgia moved into the top spot in Tuesday night's College Football Playoff
rankings, while Notre Dame moved up six notches to No. 5 and leapfrogged two
spots ahead of Miami on the strength of its win over the Hurricanes last
weekend.
The second of the CFP's six rankings reveals had its usual share of
head-scratchers, as well, starting with Indiana dropping five spots to No. 9
despite not playing last weekend.
That, along with undefeated UCLA's move up four spots to No. 4 looked like
another "correction" by a selection committee that, by most accounts, had a
rough opening week.
"I don't think it was an admission of them being too low," said Hunter
Yurachek, the chair of the 13-person selection committee who delivered on last
week's promise of lots of movement in this week's rankings.
There are three more Tuesday-night rankings shows before the bracket is set on
Dec. 6 --- the day after the last round of conference title games that will go
by the wayside when the playoff expands to 24 teams next season.
This year's bracket involves 12 teams. The rest of the top 12 included No. 2
Utah, No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 Texas, No. 8 Tennessee, No. 10 BYU, No. 11 Kentucky
and No. 12 Texas Tech. The Red Raiders would be the first team out, with No. 24
Boise State of the Pac-12 getting the last spot as the best team among the
Group of Six.
A busy week among the top 10 was reason for the flux
Miami's six-spot drop was severe for a team that lost by a touchdown on the
road and was without arguably its best player, Malachi Toney.
"You have that combination of Miami losing as a No. 1 team and then five teams
behind them having some signature wins," Yurachek said. "The committee thought
moving those teams ahead of Miami was the right thing to do."
Yurachek explained that Indiana was "probably a victim of having a bye week at
the wrong time." That the biggest weekend of the season thus far also involved
losses by three teams the Hoosiers had previously beaten did nothing for the
their strength of schedule.
And UCLA's two-touchdown pull-away over a Minnesota team that took the Hoosiers
to overtime the week before, made the Bruins "look like the number-four team in
the country," Yurachek said.
UCLA and Utah are the lone remaining undefeated teams in BCS.
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