Let’s start with who’s definitely out of the playoffs. The field is getting thinner.

Texas aTm is now out with 3 losses.
Oregon lost last night and now has 3 losses.
Iowa is hanging by a thread at 6-2.
Florida, although 6-2 can’t even win their own division now so they are basically out.
USF got their **** kicked in by Houston is now 7-1. Being that they are G5 their chances are now exactly 0%.
Washington lost to cal. LOL. Out. lol pac 12
Texas lost and is now 6-2. Hanging on by a thread.
Kentucky is still alive! If they win out they are in. Woooo go chuckles

LOL RANKINGS

121. Tcu (lost to Kansas! LOL!)
122. Fsu
123. UCLA
124. Louisville (even a ****ty FSU team beat them)
999. Rutgers

Stanford was so close to completing the elimination of the PAC 12, good job wazzu not failing like your colleagues at LOL Washington and LOLOLOL Oregon.

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Notre Dame
4. LSU
5. Oklahoma
6. Georgia
7. Michigan
8. Kentucky
9. UCF
10. Wazzu

But really, who cares. All about maintaining eligibility for playoff consideration.

kentucky is barely a top 25 team. same with ucf

Virginia on a collision course with Clemson for the ACC championship.

Alabama Tier:

Alabama

Next:

Clemson

Indistinguishable "win and in:"

Notre Dame
LSU
Michigan
Georgia
Oklahoma

Worse than above but still "win and in:"

Ohio State

LOL B1G: Rutgers, Illinois, Nebraska

LSU and Kentucky are paper tigers imo

lol so what happens if wsu wins out? I guess they get in over ucf but not a one loss big10 or big12 school.

what about a 1 loss nd or clem?

I think ucf needs everyone to have 2 losses to make it.

Eh, everyone that's not Alabama -- okay, let's say outside the top 7 or 8 -- is so mediocre this year. Kentucky seems to have a pretty legit defense and a good RB. They'll probably get hammered and eliminated at some point, but until then they're "top 10".

If Kentucky had a legit good QB, like say a dual threat guy with starting and playoff experience, like someone looking to transfer right now, named Kelly Bryant, then they'd be a legit threat instead of a team that's "taken advantage of some breaks" to be here.

1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Michigan
5. LSU
6. UGA
7. Washington State
8. Kentucky
9. Oklahoma
10. UCF

Notre Dame struggled to beat Pitt. At least Kentucky hasn't been shellacked by Purdue and puts up those defensive numbers in the SEC.

Sagarin doesn't have much love for LSU..

He has Penn State (6-2) ahead of them, while LSU has 6th toughest SOS and 4 wins against top 30 teams.. Also, ND not even in top 10..

Kentucky unit rankings per S&P+

Off: 109
Def: 3
ST: 77

that combination does not a top 10 team make

Syracuse is ranked for the first time since 2001!

Holy ****. Virginia is ranked.

Georgia opens as a -12 road fave over UK fwiw

Tail end of the rankings turning into charity for the non-traditional powers, which I guess is cool since it doesn't really harm anything. In reality are App St, UVA, or Cuse even top 40?

New AP poll

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

List your top 40.

1. Clemson 28%
2. Notre Dame 32%
3. Bama 36%
4. LSU 57%
5. Georgia 62%
6-7. Kentucky 63% / Michigan 63%
8-10. Ohio State 69% / UCF 69% / Oklahoma 69%

I find this post confusing. Why are you going with a Notre Dame anecdote? Why the tOSU comparison? And why would we be noting Kentucky puts up those defensive numbers against the generally meh SEC offenses?

I'm fine with having Kentucky where they are based on accomplishments, but they're not going to be in the conversation *next week* because teams have adapted to stopping their run game and their qb is just OK. Mizzu held them to 15 points and their running backs had 78 yards on 24 carries--the numbers are worse if you include the qb rushes, but some of those could be sacks. EVERYBODY gets 5 touchdowns against Mizzu. It's only going to get worse.

Put Kelly Bryant back there (please?) and they're more than just a ticking timebomb, is all I'm saying.

Was really hoping NDSU made it this week.

Don't really care enough beyond a cursory glance at Sagarin and seeing they're 46th in Predictor.

On YPP LSU is even worse.

LSU is a 5-3 or 4-4 team masquerading as a 7-1 team (albeit against reasonably good competition)

Where is GA Southern ranked now? Can't find it.