College Football Rankings: Week 14, 2018

FBS Schedules ^ | 11-25-2018 | Kevin Kelley

[blam]

College football rankings for week 14 have been released. Alabama remains the top-ranked team, while Ohio State and Washington made big jumps in the polls.

The Ohio State Buckeyes, who crushed then No. 4 Michigan 62-39, moved up four spots in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll to No. 6. Michigan’s loss dropped them four spots to No. 8 in both polls.

Washington, who won at in-state rival Washington State 28-15, jumped up six spots to No. 10 in the AP Poll and moved up five spots to No. 11 in the Coaches Poll. Wazzu dropped to 12th in the AP and 13th in the Coaches.

Texas A&M (22) and Fresno State (25) both moved into the AP Poll this week, while Utah State (14) and Pitt (24) dropped out.

Texas A&M also entered the Coaches Poll at No. 22 and was the only new entrant this week. Pitt, previously ranked 25th, dropped out.

Below are the complete polls for Week 14 of the 2018 season:

AP Poll – Week 14

1. Alabama (61)
2. Clemson
3. Notre Dame
4. Georgia
5. Oklahoma
6. Ohio State
7. UCF
8. Michigan
9. Texas
10. Washington
11. Florida
12(t). LSU
12(t). Washington State
14. Penn State
15. West Virginia
16. Kentucky
17. Utah
18. Syracuse
19. Boise State
20. Mississippi State
21. Northwestern
22. Texas A&M
23. Army
24. Iowa State
25. Fresno State

Dropped from rankings: Utah State 14, Pittsburgh 24.

Others receiving votes: Utah State 92, Missouri 88, NC State 39, Cincinnati 33, Stanford 10, Iowa 4, Oregon 1, Appalachian State 1, Buffalo 1.

(click to the site for the coach's poll)

[NKP_Vet]

If Alabama loses to Georgia that’s bad news for media loving Ohio State. Alabama will make the cut if they win or lose. No other team can say that and that includes overrated Clemson.

[Gil4]

“LSU dropped 4 places after losing 74-72 to Texas A & M (ranked #22) but the Texas Aggies did not move up at all in the rankings.”
That was the game of the year. Seven overtimes

That game was ridiculous. (No, I don't mean that in a good way.) That wasn't football. Call it exhibit 1 for the case that the NFL overtime system is better.

College offenses are so far ahead of the defenses right now that it's hard to get a stop when they start on their own 25, and it's nearly impossible when they start on the opponent's 25.

[EliRoom8]

Well, Lynn Swann has decided to keep Clay Helton for another season. Papadakis actually gave another sports host a half hour interview this morning about it. Very, very insightful. He was outstanding! There's so much wrong with the program that it is exhausting to enumerate. And whereas under Pete Carroll there'd be 90,000 in the Coliseum, today's team barely draws 60,000. And they boo Helton. He said that all the other coaches on the team would probably be fired.

So why keep Helton??? No logical explanation except many ensconced in the athletic program want to protect their own fiefdom.

[morphing libertarian]

we’ll see how the sophomore QB does next year.