College Football Playoffs: Where did Ole Miss land in the latest Top 25 rankings?
The penultimate College Football Playoff rankings were revealed on Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s conference championship games and Ole Miss knows where it stands.
Heading into this week’s rankings it was still looking very slim that the Rebels could find a path into the CFP, backdooring its way in with a 9-3 record.
Turns out that was accurate thinking as Ole Miss is No. 13, moving up one spot but still on the outside looking in. Alabama was No. 11 and South Carolina was No. 14. Two teams that have been connected with the Rebels in heavy discussion about which should ranked ahead of which.
Based on how the bracket is formatted, the Rebels are the second team out behind Miami, who is No. 12 in the rankings.
The Gamecocks have been the key focus of that trio and the talk of jumping Ole Miss, despite losing to them by 24 points at home and being held to only a field goal.
Top 10
- 1
Lane Kiffin scorched earth
CFP committee, Miami in crosshairs
- 2
Nebraska flips OU commit
Huskers land Sooners WR commit
- 3
Texas lands 5-star ATH
Michael Terry commits
- 4New
CFP Strength of Schedule
Added context or controversy
- 5Hot
12-Team CFP bracket
The updated field is set
Lane Kiffin even took the CFP committee to task this week, preemptively, with his thoughts on South Carolina if they were to jump the Rebels.
“Normally you’d say, ‘Well, what would happen if they played each other?’ Well, we did and we went to their place and we ran them out of their place,” Kiffin said on Sunday. “A 24-point SEC road win and we’re just handing the ball off in the fourth quarter to get out of there. If the committee is even thinking about that, then what do you play the games for. …We could still be playing the game and they still might not have scored a touchdown.”
Now, it seems the only thing to wait for on Sunday is which bowl game Ole Miss will be heading to that is not in the CFP.
The complete College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings:
- Oregon (12-0)
- Texas (11-1)
- Penn State (11-1)
- Notre Dame (11-1)
- Georgia (10-2)
- Ohio State (10-2)
- Tennessee (10-2)
- SMU (11-1)
- Indiana (11-1)
- Boise State (11-1)
- Alabama (9-3)
- Miami (10-2)
- Ole Miss (9-3)
- South Carolina (9-3)
- Arizona State (10-2)
- Iowa State (10-2)
- Clemson (9-3)
- BYU (10-2)
- Missouri (9-3)
- UNLV (10-2)
- Illinois (9-3)
- Syracuse (9-3)
- Colorado (9-3)
- Army (10-1)
- Memphis (10-2)
