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Georgia Remains at Top of Third College Football Playoff Rankings
The third School Soccer Playoff rankings of the season had been launched Tuesday, with Georgia remaining at No. 1 for the second consecutive week.
In per week the place each Oregon and UCLA suffered upsets at dwelling, to Washington and Arizona, respectively, the Pac-12 might have crushed its probabilities of having a workforce on this 12 months’s playoff. The final time two top-10 groups within the Pac-12 misplaced at dwelling throughout the identical weekend was October 2014, when the Geese suffered a 31–24 loss to Arizona and Utah pulled off the upset in opposition to UCLA.
Georgia, coming off a dominant win over Mississippi State, will face Kentucky on Saturday and shut the common season in opposition to Georgia Tech within the Clear, Previous-Customary Hate rivalry matchup.
In complete, eight ranked groups suffered losses over the weekend. After the Bulldogs, Ohio State (10–0) and Michigan (10–0) retained their spots at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, whereas Tennessee (9–1) and TCU (10–0) spherical out the highest 5.
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TCU defeated Texas in a tricky defensive battle, one thing that CFP chair Boo Corrigan famous as the rationale the Horned Frogs retained its spot at No. 4.
“For his or her [TCU] protection to surrender three factors… the opposite was a scoop and rating by Texas … however as you have a look at the entire bundle once more, they proceed to enhance,” Corrigan mentioned on the published. “They’ve earned the chance to be within the prime 4.”
In the meantime, after a 55–17 win in opposition to Colorado on Friday, the committee felt that the dominance on offense by Southern California beneath first-year head coach Lincoln Riley paved the best way for the Trojans’ newest rating at No. 7.
“They’ve continued to win video games,” Corrigan mentioned. “They’ve the one loss … in a extremely emotional sport at Utah. They acquired the win over Oregon State. They’ve continued to win, they’ve continued offensively scoring 40-plus factors a sport, having over 500 yards a sport and that actually drove the day for them.”
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Listed below are the complete second School Soccer Playoff rankings:
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- TCU
- Tennessee
- LSU
- Southern California
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Utah
- Penn State
- Oregon
- North Carolina
- Ole Miss
- Kansas State
- UCLA
- Washington
- Notre Dame
- Florida State
- UCF
- Tulane
- Oklahoma State
- Oregon State
- NC State
- Cincinnati
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