Where Tennessee football is ranked in the updated College Football Top 25
Tennessee football is ranked No. 7 in the newest College Football Top 25, moving up three spots after being ranked No. 10 last week. The CFP Selection Committee released their new rankings Tuesday night.
Alabama (10-2), despite is loss at Tennessee earlier this season, was ranked ahead of the Vols. Penn State (10-2) is No. 8, Clemson (10-2) dropped one spot to No. 9 and Kansas State (9-3) came in at No. 10.
Ohio State dropped from No. 2 to No. 5 after its loss to Michigan State. Georgia remained No. 1, ahead of No. 2 Michigan. TCU is No. 3 and USC moved up to No. 4.
Tennessee (10-2, 6-2 SEC) bounced back from the loss at South Carolina two weeks ago to beat Vanderbilt 56-0 Saturday night at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville.
It’s Tennessee’s first 10-win regular season since 2003 and the first time the program has won 10 games in a season since 2007, with the 10th win coming that season coming against Wisconsin in the Outback Bowl.
Four of top nine teams from last week’s CFP Top 25 lost on Saturday
Four of the top nine teams from last week’s CFP Top 25 lost on Saturday. No. 2 Ohio State lost to No. 3 Michigan 45-23 in Columbus. No. 5 LSU lost 38-23 at Texas A&M. No. 8 Clemson lost at home to South Carolina, 31-30. No. 9 Oregon lost 38-34 at No. 21 Oregon State.
Tennessee was ranked No. 1 in the initial College Football Playoff Top 25 release on November 1, after starting the season 8-0. Since then the Vols have dropped games at No. 1 Georgia and at South Carolina. They dropped to No. 5 after the Georgia loss, then to No. 10 after the loss at South Carolina.
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Earlier this week there were seven bowl projections that had Tennessee matched up against Clemson in the Orange Bowl, from ESPN, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Athlon and Action Network, which listed the Vols as a one-point underdog against the Tigers.
College Football News and Saturday Down South projected Tennessee to the Sugar Bowl, against Kansas State.
Up Next: Vols await bowl selection announcement on Sunday
The Orange Bowl will be played on Friday, December 30 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and will be televised by ESPN, live from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Fla. The Sugar Bowl will be played on December 31, a Noon ET kickoff on ESPN from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
The new College Football Playoff Top 25 will be released Tuesday night. Tennessee would have to be ranked ahead of Alabama in the final CFP Top 25 to be selected for the Sugar Bowl.
After the top four teams have been picked for the playoff, the remaining New Year Six Bowls pick from conference champions from the Power 5, a Group of 5 team — the highest-ranked conference champion from the American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West and Sun Belt — and the highest-ranked remaining Power 5 teams with respect to bowl tie-ins.
The Sugar Bowl gets the highest-ranked teams from the SEC and Big 12 outside of the top four. The Orange Bowl gets the ACC vs. the Big Ten, SEC or Notre Dame and The Rose Bowl matches up the Pac-12 and Big Ten.
