UPDATED POWER RANKINGS

    

    Ohio State remains in the top spot in this week's edition. The top ten is largely the same except for Tennessee's leapfrogging of Michigan and a few other flip-flops. Oregon and Oklahoma both entered the top ten after losses by Kentucky and Texas A&M. The ratings have seemed to lag behind on downgraded the Aggies. Wake Forest fell slightly, but remains in the top 25 after suffering an uncharacteristically sloppy loss at Louisville; the Demon Deacons had six turnovers in one quarter after having only five the entire year. Some teams, like Penn State, did not drop despite losing because the ratings expected the losses and the margins of defeat were not overwhelming. Wisconsin has slowly crept back up. Perhaps not surprisingly, Illinois has also methodically climbed in the rankings. It will be interesting to see if the Illini should be even higher once they play some serious competition. South Carolina tanked more than ten spots after barely showing up at home against Missouri. UCF actually dropped two spots due to their victory coming within the expected margin and Illinois and Florida State jumping them. NC State dropped over ten spots despite their victory because they came nowhere close to winning by the expected amount against a vastly inferior opponent. Let's see how the Pack play without quarterback Devin Leary. East Carolina climbed a bit after pulling off a difficult victory in Provo; BYU fell in turn. Toledo has dropped from their high coming back towards the rest of the MAC. Coastal Carolina rose eleven spots after crushing Marshall on the road. The Chanticleers might be the worst 7-1 team in recent times. Eastern Michigan continued its roller coaster season rising a good amount as a result of nearly beating top MAC team Toledo. Conversely, Boston College dropped approximately the same number of spots due to a terrible loss against UConn. As for the Huskies, they escaped the bottom ten for what feels like the first time in ages. Jim Mora has done terrific in year one. Finally, Florida International moved ahead of UMass and is no longer clearly the worst team in FBS. 

The following rankings reflect power ratings. The ratings are updated every week to reflect each team's performance against both its on-field opponent and the betting spread, or line.

Ranking	Team	Prev. Ranking
1	Ohio State	1
2	Alabama	2
3	Georgia	3
4	Tennessee	5
5	Michigan	4
6	USC	6
7	Clemson	8
8	Utah	7
9	Oregon	12
10	Oklahoma	15
11	Mississippi State	11
12	Kentucky	10
13	Penn State	13
14	Texas	14
15	Ole Miss	22
16	Baylor	18
17	TCU	17
18	Texas A&M	9
19	Arkansas	20
20	Kansas State	24
21	Wake Forest	16
22	LSU	21
23	Wisconsin	26
24	Cincinnati	25
25	UCLA	27
26	Oregon State	28
27	Illinois	32
28	Oklahoma State	23
29	Notre Dame	29
30	Florida State	33
31	South Carolina	19
32	Minnesota	30
33	Central Florida	31
34	Tulane	36
35	Washington	37
36	Iowa State	34
37	Syracuse	35
38	Louisville	45
39	Iowa	41
40	Florida	43
41	Maryland	39
42	Washington State	49
43	Texas Tech	40
44	Purdue	42
45	Air Force	47
46	North Carolina	55
47	Appalachian State	51
48	Pittsburgh	46
49	Miami	44
50	West Virginia	52
51	SMU	53
52	NC State	38
53	East Carolina	62
54	BYU	48
55	Boise State	60
56	Kansas	54
57	Michigan State	57
58	Toledo	50
59	Auburn	56
60	Missouri	58
61	James Madison	63
62	UTSA	64
63	Liberty	66
64	Houston	70
65	San Jose State	59
66	Coastal Carolina	77
67	Stanford	65
68	Fresno State	61
69	Western Kentucky	69
70	Troy	71
71	Marshall	67
72	San Diego State	82
73	Arizona State	72
74	Virginia	79
75	South Alabama	76
76	Army	73
77	Northwestern	74
78	UAB	68
79	California	75
80	Arizona	83
81	Duke	78
82	Georgia Southern	80
83	North Texas	90
84	Nebraska	81
85	Memphis	84
86	Georgia State	85
87	Kent State	86
88	Tulsa	87
89	Indiana	88
90	Southern Mississippi	89
91	Northern Illinois	91
92	Louisiana Lafayette	93
93	Rutgers	94
94	Wyoming	95
95	Virginia Tech	98
96	Miami Ohio	102
97	South Florida	99
98	Buffalo	101
99	Eastern Michigan	110
100	Old Dominion	96
101	Boston College	92
102	UNLV	104
103	Georgia Tech	97
104	Utah State	105
105	Rice	100
106	Navy	103
107	UTEP	106
108	Middle Tennessee State	113
109	Ohio	109
110	Florida Atlantic	114
111	Western Michigan	111
112	Vanderbilt	112
113	Texas State	115
114	Arkansas State	108
115	Central Michigan	116
116	Ball State	117
117	UConn	120
118	Bowling Green	118
119	Louisiana Tech	107
120	Louisiana Monroe	119
121	Charlotte	124
122	New Mexico	121
123	Colorado	123
124	Nevada	126
125	Colorado State	122
126	Akron	125
127	Temple	127
128	Hawai'i	128
129	New Mexico State	129
130	Florida International	131
131	UMass	130