With the pinnacle 4 groups in final week’s College Football Playoff Rankings all maintaining serve after rising triumphant final week, the fourth version of the CFP pinnacle 25 launched Tuesday night time turned into in large part uneventful. Reigning country-wide champion Georgia held onto the No. 1 spot with Ohio State closing at No. 2. Michigan and TCU rounded out what the pinnacle 4, the usage of walk-off discipline desires final Saturday to stave off upsets and stay undefeated getting into Rivalry Week.
USC, with its lone blemish a single-factor defeat at Utah on Oct. 15, picked up the largest victory amongst CFP contenders with a 48-forty five win at UCLA. The Trojans’ upward push to No. 6 turned into aided via way of means of a stunning disappointment suffered via way of means of Tennessee, which turned routed 63-38 at South Carolina.
Despite its stepped-forward ranking, USC nevertheless sits in the back of -loss No. five LSU. Both groups will compete in their respective convention championship video games in weeks, however, the Trojans may want to probably bounce the Tigers withinside the penultimate scores subsequent week given the groups’ upcoming opponents. (More below.)
With the Volunteers now essentially removed from the playoff, they may grow to be simply the second crew ranked No. 1 in a season’s preliminary CFP Rankings on the way to failing to attain the 4-crew discipline (Mississippi State, 2014). Meanwhile, the Tigers nevertheless have a danger to grow to be the primary -loss crew to earn a CFP bid withinside the event’s history.
Consecutive victories of 25+ factors have given one-loss Clemson new life, aleven though it is striking in the back of a couple of two-loss SEC teams (LSU, Alabama) and one-loss USC. Clemson’s capacity power of agenda took successful this week, however it though has a direction to a 7th CFP look withinside the remaining 8 seasons. Should it in the long run make the field, it might be the lowest-ranked crew at this juncture to do so.
