College Football Playoffs: Projecting where Ole Miss will land in third set of rankings
Ole Miss got the weekend off and watched as other Top 10 teams suffered losses, hoping it betters their standing in the next set of College Football Playoffs Top 25 rankings.
The Rebels (8-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) were ranked No. 11 in last week’s CFP rankings and were one of the 12 teams making the field if the playoffs started today.
Not playing and risking a loss should not damage Ole Miss’ standing and with No. 6 BYU and No. 7 Tennessee losing this past Saturday it should move it up a couple spots.
Going off the latest Coaches and Associated Press polls released on Sunday the Rebels should find themselves inside the Top 10, again, but then the question is who could jump ahead of them.
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Georgia moved up three spots to No. 8 after beating the Volunteers, leapfrogging Ole Miss who beat them by 18 in Oxford the week prior. Could that happen again in the rankings that matter on Tuesday?
Absolutely.
Does that mean it is the correct thing?
No, no it does not.
But I could see the Rebels bumping up the two spots to No. 9 — matching its rankings in Sunday’s polls — as it heads to Gainesville to take on Florida in their final SEC road game of the regular season. Just win there and then the Egg Bowl six days later and Ole Miss is in.
Georgia being ahead at the moment does not matter as there are other dominoes to fall and the conference championship games to be played, that may or may not matter depending on which head coach you ask.
Below is the full CFP Top 25 projection from On3’s Thomas Goldkamp:
- Oregon
- Ohio State
- Texas
- Penn State
- Indiana
- Notre Dame
- Miami
- Georgia
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Tennessee
- Boise State
- BYU
- SMU
- Texas A&M
- Colorado
- Clemson
- Army
- South Carolina
- Arizona
- Tulane
- Iowa State
- UNLV
- Kansas State
- Washington State
