Power Rankings 10/27/2020

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Welcome Back!

I had a LOT of movement this week as we had several upsets, and I dropped 3 of the 10 factors I use for my preseason rankings.  From here on out, I will be dropping 2 factors per week until all factors have been dropped, which will be following the games on Nov 21.  This means that some teams that may have moved up because of upsets/wins actually moved down because of the dropped points, and teams that lost moved up for the same reason, and some teams that didn't even play moved a lot, so I have a few "strange" results.  This will continue to happen for the next 4 weeks.

I should explain that I use a point system to come up with my preseason rankings, and as the season goes on, I will drop these off, as explained above.  Here are the teams that moved the most this week:

Kansas State +7
Boise State +6
Washington State +5
Missouri +5
Wake Forest +5
Nevada +5
Appalachian State +4
San Diego State +4
Mississippi State +4
Houston +4
Indiana +4

North Carolina -12
Tennessee -11
Kentucky -6
Pittsburgh -5
Texas -4
Va Tech -4
West Virginia -4
WKU -4
Ole Miss -4
USF -4

All other teams either stayed the same or moved only one to three spots up or down.

The top 3 spots were unchanged.

UTEP dropped back into last place.

In all, 102 of the 127 teams listed moved up or down at least 1 spot, which was 37 more than last week.

Several of the biggest movers didn't play; they moved because of how the teams around them did.  

I have no ties again this week!

And here are the new Power Rankings!

1

Alabama

2

Clemson

3

Ohio State

4

Oklahoma

5

Notre Dame

6

Georgia

7

Boise State

8

LSU

9

Wisconsin

10

Penn State

11

Oklahoma State

12

UCF

13

Oregon

14

Michigan

15

Appalachian State

16

Florida

17

Auburn

18

Iowa 

19

Texas A&M

20

Utah

21

Washington

22

USC

23

Cincinnati

24

Memphis

25

San Diego State

26

TCU

27

Stanford

28

Texas

29

Marshall

30

Virginia Tech

31

Miami, Fl

32

Ohio

33

Toledo

34

Minnesota

35

Washington State

36

Kansas State

37

La Tech

38

Mississippi State

39

Michigan State

40

Iowa State

41

Kentucky

42

FSU

43

Air Force

44

Northwestern

45

Arizona State

46

NC State

47

Missouri

48

Arkansas State

49

Houston

50

Navy

51

BYU

52

Louisville

53

West Virginia

54

Louisiana

55

Baylor

56

Army

57

Wake Forest

58

Troy

59

North Carolina

60

South Carolina

61

Utah State

62

SMU

63

Pittsburgh

64

FAU

65

California

66

Temple

67

Western Kentucky

68

Buffalo

69

Western Michigan

70

UAB

71

Virginia

72

Duke

73

Wyoming

74

Fresno State

75

Nevada

76

Northern Illinois

77

Tennessee

78

Indiana

79

Southern Miss

80

Boston College

81

Ole Miss

82

South Florida

83

Nebraska

84

FIU

85

Georgia Southern

86

Hawai'i

87

Arizona

88

Central Michigan

89

Middle Tenn

90

UCLA

91

Texas Tech

92

Syracuse

93

Miami, Oh

94

Purdue

95

Georgia Tech

96

Tulane

97

North Texas

98

Colorado

99

Liberty

100

Colorado State

101

Tulsa

102

Arkansas

103

Eastern Michigan

104

Vanderbilt

105

Charlotte

106

Georgia State

107

Illinois

108

UTSA

109

Ball State

110

ULM

111

Maryland

112

Coastal Carolina

113

New Mexico

114

East Carolina

115

Rutgers

116

UNLV

117

Oregon State

118

Kent State

119

Bowling Green

120

San Jose State

121

Akron

122

South Alabama

123

Kansas

124

Rice

125

Texas State

126

UMass

127

UTEP

Come back tomorrow for my Odds and Ends.

Until next time, may you and your loved ones be blessed!

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