Week 11 Rankings

Your Top 25:

Rk	Δ	Team	Pts
1	+2	Alabama	69.3

The Crimson Tide comes in at #1 after a thrilling 20-13 overtime win over LSU.

2

-1

Mississippi State

68.9

Mississippi State had little difficulty against FCS Tennessee-Martin, winning 45-16, but the Math is disappointed. We were expecting a final score of 84-0 from the best team in the country. Even Kentucky was able to put up 59 points against the redundantly-named Skyhawks.

3

-1

Auburn

62.8

Auburn falls out of the top tier after getting upset by Texas A&M at Auburn. You don't win football games doing this:

4

+2

Ohio State

60.7

Buckeye QB J.T. Barrett led OSU to a 49-37 victory in a surprisingly low-defense game against Michigan State. Brutus is now sitting where Sparty sat last week.

5

+6

Baylor

59.6

The Bears mauled Oklahoma, winning 48-14 in Norman; Baylor is now part of a three-way tie for the top spot in the Big XII (with TCU and Kansas State).

6	+4	TCU	59.3
7	+0	Marshall	58.6
8	-3	Ole Miss	58.3
9	+0	Oregon	58.2
10	-2	Nebraska	55.5
11	+3	Georgia	55.4
12	+5	Wisconsin	53.6
13	+6	Georgia Tech	53.2
14	-10	Michigan State	52.4
15	+0	Georgia Southern	50.9
16	+2	Florida State	49.4
17	-4	LSU	49.1
18	+3	UCLA	46.8
19	+4	Arizona State	46.8
20	-8	Oklahoma	46.4
21	+1	Clemson	44.6
22	+3	Duke	44.3
23	-7	Kansas State	43.9
24	-4	Notre Dame	41.9
25	+4	Florida	41.8

See full rankings here.

Teams falling out of the Top 25: (#28) Boise State is the only team to fall out of the Top 25 this week after avoiding the upset against (#94) New Mexico.

Teams worse than the average FCS team:

• (#128) SMU (lost 38-28 to Tulsa)
• (#129) Georgia State (lost 45-21) to Troy

Largest improvement in rank: +13 Penn State curiously rose 13 places after a 13-7 win over Indiana; Texas rose less mysteriously after upsetting West Virginia 33-16.

Largest drop in rank: -17 Houston falls after a 31-24 loss to Tulane, a game the Math expected the Cougars to win by 25.

Conference Rankings

Conference	Average
SEC	43.17
Pac-12	32.09
ACC	31.67
B1G	31.57
Big 12	31.53
Mountain West	21.23
Conference USA	19.89
American	17.55
Sun Belt	17.39
MAC	13.91

Games to watch next week:

(#2) Mississippi State at (#1) Alabama (TBA) For the second time this season, two teams atop the SEC West and arguably the two best teams in the country face off. Mississippi State won the last edition against Auburn, propelling the Bulldogs to #1. But the Dogs lost that rank this week after a less-than-impressive win against UTM and a Crimson Tide win over LSU. Whoever wins this game will have the top spot in the division. However, a Bulldog win would all but guarantee their trip to the conference championship; an Alabama win would keep the hopes of Ole Miss and Auburn alive.

Line: Alabama by 12.5

(#3) Auburn at (#11) Georgia (TBA) Georgia bounced back nicely from their loss against Florida with a 63-31 victory over Kentucky. The Bulldogs are vying with Mizzou for the SEC East title; Georgia has won the head-to-head against Missouri, but with two conference losses, needs Mizzou to lose at least one more time. Meanwhile, after losing to Texas A&M, Auburn needs to win out and needs Mississippi State to lose to both Alabama and Ole Miss in order to win the SEC West. Long story short, neither Auburn nor Georgia controls their own destiny right now, but both need to win this game to keep their hopes alive.

Line: Auburn by 6.5

(#10) Nebraska at (#12) Wisconsin (3:30 PM EST, ABC) Moving to the Big Ten, while Ohio State is the clear favorite in the East, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are bunched up at the top in the West. Some clarity should arrive next weekend with the Huskers travelling to Madison to take on the Badgers. Nebraska and Wisconsin look markedly better than Minnesota; Nebraska and Wisconsin post 491 and 478 total yards per game, compared to the Gophers' 364. Also, with Minnesota being a 20-point underdog against Ohio State on Saturday, the winner of the Nebraska-Wisconsin game is the likely favorite to win the Big Ten West.

Line: Wisconsin by 9.5