The Week 13 College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings were released Tuesday night on ESPN.
As has been the case for the last three weeks, Georgia (1), Ohio State (2), Michigan (3), and TCU (4) represented the top-four.
Tennessee was stunned — in beatdown fashion — by unranked South Carolina on Saturday. With the loss, the Vols fell from fifth to 10th in the latest College Football Playoff rankings (and they lost star quarterback Hendon Hooker to a torn ACL). LSU moved up from sixth to fifth, and USC moved up from seventh to sixth.
Alabama (7) and Clemson (8) each moved up a spot as well, while Oregon (9) jumped three spots after taking down Utah (who fell from 10th to 14th) on Saturday.
The latest College Football Playoff top-6:
1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Michigan
4. TCU
5. LSU
6. USC#CFP 🏈🏆 pic.twitter.com/DcMOqBiUGc
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 23, 2022
The biggest jump in the top-25 was Washington moving up four spots to No. 13 after a 54-7 shellacking of Colorado (which followed a a wild 37-34 road victory over Oregon).
The NEW #CFBPlayoff top 25 rankings heading into rivalry week‼️
Which matchup are you looking forward to? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/HPRCgNRmbd
— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) November 23, 2022
Saturday could be significant for the College Football Playoff picture, with Michigan taking on Ohio State in Columbus. Perhaps a close, well-played game won’t lead to much movement, but a lopsided game certainly could.
Here’s a peek at how the college football world is reacting on social media to the Week 13 CFP rankings:
The final CFP rankings will be revealed next Tuesday, and selection day will be Sunday, Dec. 4.
Using the CFP's rankings, here's how an expanded playoff would look using the adopted format if selections were today.
Reminders:
(1) 6 highest-ranked champs get AQs
(2) next 6 highest-ranked teams get At-Larges
(3) byes to top 4 conference champs
(4) 1st round at better seed pic.twitter.com/BWJP0xwu9m— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 23, 2022
No. 6 USC will be in the CFP if it wins out. I don't care what happens to the teams in front of it … including the possibility of No. 5 LSU beating No. 1 Georgia in the SEC Championship Game
— Barrett Sallee 🇺🇸 (@BarrettSallee) November 23, 2022
I know all we care about is the top 4, but I'm curious how the committee is evaluating Tennessee at this point knowing Hooker is out.
It's a CFP Kenyon Martin situation. (Not sure how many of you are old enough to get that reference.)
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 23, 2022
1. LSU ranked ahead of USC and Tennessee is ridiculous. The CFP committee is asking us to challenge its credibility with this ludicrous ranking.
2. UT stomped out LSU 40-13 *in Baton Rouge.* USC is a 1-loss P5 team.
3. This is ridiculous.
— RJ Young (@RJ_Young) November 23, 2022
Lowest ranked teams at this point of season in @CFBPlayoff rankings to make playoff:
No. 7 Oklahoma (2019)
No. 7 Georgia (2017)
No. 6 Oklahoma (2018)
No. 6 Ohio State (2014)— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 23, 2022
TCU remains in the top 4, but they’ll need to beat Iowa State by at least 53 points or the Committee is expected to drop them.
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) November 23, 2022
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