It is extremely close at the top of this week's rankings, but the Texas Longhorns have pulled into the top spot.
Last week, I made a pretty big deal out of the fact that the top five college football teams in the country, per SP+, were all within 1.8 points of each other. This week, they're withinWe've technically got a new No. 1 team -- Texas eases into the top spot after a lopsided win over ULM -- but congestion remains the story. SP+ is pretty confident that it knows who the five best teams in the country are, and it seems pretty clear on No. 6-11 too.
I created the system at Football Outsiders in 2008, and as my experience with both college football and its stats has grown, I have made quite a few tweaks to the system.It is not a résumé ranking that gives credit for big wins or particularly brave scheduling -- no good predictive system is. It is simply a measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football. If you're lucky or unimpressive in a win, your rating will probably fall.
It was a mostly excellent week for the ACC. Four league teams rose by at least 3.7 points, and eight teams rose by at least a point while only three fell by more than a point. With a number of Big 12 teams losing ground, these changes were enough to bump the ACC into third place on the list. The league has the third-best offensive average and the third-best defensive average, while the Big 12 is second in the former and fourth in the latter.Here's what the new 12-team CFP would look like based on updated SP+ projections .11 Missouri at 6 Alabama Sugar Bowl: 1 Texas vs. 8 Georgia Peach Bowl: 3 Miami vs. 6 Alabama 1 Texas vs.
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