After another topsy-turvy week, Ohio State reclaims the top spot in SP+ rankings. Plus, College Football Playoff projections and more.
If the first eight weeks of the college football season have taught us anything, it's that we don't have an invincible team in 2024. Texas was the closest thing to it after seven weeks, and the Longhorns got roughed up at home by Georgia on Saturday. Ohio State is once again up to first in SP+ -- this is the fifth time in six weeks that No. 1 changed hands -- and the Buckeyes took the spot by not playing at all after losing a week ago.
Nebraska saw its rating punished pretty severely after a 56-7 loss to Indiana, but most of the other teams near the top of this list both performed poorly in Week 8 and suffered from the further phasing out of preseason projections. Purdue has been abjectly awful for all but about one half this season, and Arizona, West Virginia and Oklahoma also have been more disappointing than not. OU's strong defense continues to keep its overall rating afloat, but the Sooners' offense ... yuck.1.
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