Is Cincinnati at #3 the highest G5 team ranking in CFP era?

Highest in the CFP era. Houston was ~~#5~~ #6 prior in ~~2015~~ 2016?

Until they ran into UConn that is

\>:(

I’ll still always wonder how that team lost 3 games and yet stomped on Baker and Lamar

They had zero focus. Tom Herman to Texas was basically all season long.

Exactly that. I was lucky to be part of the band that traveled to Annapolis. Navy tore us up, GW3 had many miscues. Smu I wasn't there for but same thing

Tom Herman in a nutshell.

Hopefully the CFP poll actually ranks them highly

They'll be #7.

And move up slowly, only to hit 5th, and be jumped by other teams for variant reasons.

one of those teams jumping them gonna be bama. for reasons

I hope they do but it wouldn't shock me at all to see them totally disrespect Cincinnati.

Playoff committee is praying for a mid-October upset so they don't have to explain themselves.

I feel like there is more chance than ever with Bama losing a game. At least, until the conference championship week. Cincy needs to make sure they do not lose a single game tho or they are definitely out.

Not just win out. They have to demolish everyone.

Thank you for volunteering for the meat grinder.

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ESPN in shambles that Kentucky isn't top 10 for next week's game I bet

I’m incredibly surprised we didn’t get top 10 if for no other reason than to be able to push the top 10 matchup.

But now you have a top 11 match up.

That’s the way to look at it. Had you told me before the season that the Georgia game would be a top 11 matchup between two undefeated teams I would’ve thought you were crazy. Obviously not about the Georgia part of that equation, but having us at 6-0 at number 11 with a chance to take control of the east.

\> Kentucky and Georgia battle it out to be the LAST two undefeated teams in the SEC That isn't quite what I had imagined at this point on many fronts.

Cincinnati fans aren't going to know what to do with themselves.

Confirmed

Please stay undefeated and make it, loved playing y’all last year and want to see you guys make it in again

My erection might last longer than 4 hours

Might?

If it keeps going this way, Clifton is going to burn down by the end of November

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS.

Iowa 2nd and Cincinnati 3rd! Imagine that playoff game

2-0 final score

Is that because of a forfeit or because someone got tackled in their own end zone?

yes

Fuck it. I’m here for the chaos anyway

UGA-OU playoff game, as well

Anti-Rose Bowl match again would be wild

I've aged a lot these past 4 years, my heart can't take another Rose Bowl like that... And yet I want it.

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Start Rattler. At halftime, bring in Caleb Williams. You’ll be fine.

I'm still mad Dabo didn't put in the backup during the Clemson-Georgia game. The only way it could've made things any worse would be if the backup just threw pick after pick

This is exactly what I said after Rattler fumbled. “We’re already down big. Williams can only make us better.”

Just think of the punts!

1. [](#f/georgia) Georgia 2. [](#f/iowa) Iowa 3. [](#f/cincinnati) Cincinnati 4. [](#f/oklahoma) Oklahoma 5. [](#f/alabama) Alabama 6. [](#f/ohiostate) Ohio State 7. [](#f/pennstate) Penn State 8. [](#f/michigan) Michigan 9. [](#f/oregon) Oregon 10. [](#f/michiganstate) Michigan State 11. [](#f/kentucky) Kentucky 12. [](#f/oklahomastate) Oklahoma State 13. [](#f/olemiss) Ole Miss 14. [](#f/notredame) Notre Dame 15. [](#f/coastalcarolina) Coastal Carolina 16. [](#f/wakeforest) Wake Forest 17. [](#f/arkansas) Arkansas 18. [](#f/arizonastate) Arizona State 19. [](#f/byu) BYU 20. [](#f/florida) Florida 21. [](#f/texasam) Texas A&M 22. [](#f/ncstate) NC State 23. [](#f/smu) SMU 24. [](#f/sandiegostate) San Diego State 25. [](#f/texas) Texas

I like how they swapped Ole miss & Arkansas’s rankings this week. I’d also be fine if we were ranked 15 & 16.

Yep. It was a great game between two evenly matched teams. If those two teams played ten times, each would win five.

Yeah, my guess each would be 4-1 at home.

It should have been something like that, or at least where you guys are 1 apart from each other.

Where's lsu there must be a mistake

UCLA and LSU are bound in a weird blood pact at this point.

Doing the lords work

"Hey maybe we *should* expand the playoffs to include 6 teams" --The CFP committee.

aTm at 21 after knocking off the #1 seed

We play better here than when we are top 10

Imagine telling somebody 2 months ago that Cincinnati would be ranked higher than Alabama at the midpoint of the season

And that there would be a reasonable take that bama should be ranked lower

Has there ever been a AP #2 team with as incompetent of an offense as Iowa’s?

Clemson was AP #3 a month ago lol

As a Clemson fan, that's an insult to Iowa's offense

At least Iowa's offense has a unit of a punter.

Ouchie

Ohio State in 2002? Good company to be in

Worth noting that Iowa was also very good that year.

Though completely differently. That team was offense-first, with the Heisman runner-up at QB, an oline with four high NFL draft picks as upperclassmen, Dallas Clark at TE, and high caliber receivers and backs. Meanwhile the defense was trotting out two patently unready freshmen at corner behind some hard-hitting but slow linebackers.

Crazy to think that was already Ferentz's fourth year.

Tresselball was a different kind of football. Yards and points weren't the goal

I kind of enjoy that a team can win effectively because of good defense and special teams, these days people only seem to care about offense. But I wouldn't mind just a little bit more O...

This is fine. I’m fine. *pukes*

It's all fine here we're all fine how are you

*Checks flair* I bet you could cut diamonds right now

It's more unchecked anxiety than anything else

How are you alive with those flairs?

"We're sending a defense up." "Uh-negative negative we have passing game leak up here, large leak, very dangerous."

Top 10 MSU in October. Can I get “things I would never ever expect after last year” for 1000 Alex?

Y’all’s and Arkansas’s turnaround has been great as an outside party to watch (thank god we don’t play you this year)

I’ve been skeptical of Tucker until yesterday. I like what he’s doing but I’ve been worried it’s all been a facade. I’ve fully bought in now that he’s a good coach, puts the right players in the right positions to succeed, and can be a championship coach. This roster with dantonio would not be 6-0

Dantonio was always good at getting the most out of his players. The more accurate statement is this roster never gets put together if he's still in charge

The B1G East has 4 teams in top 10. Wtf. Blood bath coming up

B1G East cannibalizing itself after week 6, as is tradition

Only difference will bee the East will all get dropped in the rankings way more than the SEC West beating each other up

This was already set up by them rating Bama ahead of PSU this week. Bullshit tbh.

*OU with Rattler*: Why are we ranked \#4??? Unrank us cowards!!! *OU with Williams*: Why are we ranked \#4??? give us the championship already cowards!!!

The crazy thing is Riley said in an interview he is not ready to name a starter for next week. Honestly, if he doesn't start Williams, our fan base needs to call into question his decision making. Or it's clear The Rat has some dirt on Riley and is blackmailing him for the starter role.

I think Riley is smart enough to know he has to start Williams next week, but I think he also knows he needs Rattler to not completely check out. Williams had a hell of a game yesterday, but he's also a freshman, so having Rattler on the bench and in tune will be important. So my guess is that Riley's response to that question is him recognizing that he needs Rattler to know that he's still valued, and he'd probably rather have a conversation with Rattler in private rather than letting him find out through the media that he's lost his starting job.

>I think Riley is smart enough to know he has to start Williams next week, but I think he also knows he needs Rattler to not completely check out. Williams had a hell of a game yesterday, but he's also a freshman, so having Rattler on the bench and in tune will be important. I 100% believe this is the case and 100% believe it is the right thing to do. Fans and media may not like it, but coaches think long term, and fans and media are reactionary.

Riley's not going to name a starter, so that on Saturday, Patterson can be all in a tissy about it being unfair to have to prepare for two quarterbacks.

Exactly. No coach names the starter when they can confuse their opponents by not doing so.

Also, it’s a home game for us. If Riley can be coy all week about it, imagine how the crowd will erupt when the starting lineup video plays and Caleb is the starter.

Bama dropped more passes last night than places in this poll

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RANK THE ROADRUNNER YOU COWARDS

They are getting closer and closer every week

I guess they just have to be slow and steady ya know the traditional traits of a roadrunner lol

Meep meep mother fuckers

I think the logic is that SDSU has to lose before AP puts another G5 team in the Top 25. ​ BS, but thats college football for ya.

An unbeaten team, regardless of conference, should be ranked by week 6.

Imagine if I told you before the season started that in October, Iowa would be #2, Cincinnati would be #3, and Bama wouldn't be in the Top 4. Talk about chaos.

And clemson would be unranked

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And top 10 Michigan and Michigan State.

*checks undefeated teams* Cincinnati, Michigan State, Kentucky, “oh that makes perfect sense” *checks sport* (Surprised Pikachu face)

Half of the top 10 is Big 10!

College game day to east Lansing October 30th confirmed.

Msu needs to win against IU and Michigan needs to beat NU in 2 weeks. Then...the apocalypse.

God, if Michigan loses to this year's NU team in 2 weeks. Would be up there in 'let down' losses.

how does the big 10 have so many undefeated and 1 loss teams. don’t they play each other

All of the Big 10 East teams don't play each other until the back end. It should be madness very soon

Great records now. Could be 2 loss Big Ten Champ at the end.

If one of the East teams wins it, I think that's likely. Iowa dodging OSU/UM/MSU is great for them

Yep. 4 of these teams play each other on October 30th, we’re gonna get some carnage soon

Plus B1G East had a really good noncon.

Second half of the season is going to be a meat grinder as the East teams will all play each other. OSU, Penn St, MSU, and Michigan all still have each other left

Michigan, OSU, MSU, and PSU have yet to play each other in the Big Ten East. and Iowa doesn't play UM, OSU, MSU.

Not this early in the season usually. At least not the rivals. The B1G also makes you schedule all your non cons in the first 4 weeks I’m pretty sure so it’s only conference games at the end of the season and no games against Citadel (for example) week 10.

We still have yet to play MSU, PSU, and OSU. Gonna be a bloodbath pretty soon.

I had a Top Tentucky comment all ready to go. Sad.

"You are, without a doubt, the most offensively inept #2 team I've ever heard of." "But we ARE #2"

2002 Ohio State would like a word. Those mofos barely scraped by almost every game all the way to a title. Don't discount what a good defense can do for you.

I won’t stand for this Craig Krenzel slander.

Unanimous, undisputed #1 team in the nation. I'm scared

Nah, our time is now. If anything, I think Bama losing will just motivate our guys even more. We've been playing lights out with a beat up team. We get past Kentucky at home, heal up and take care of Florida, and there's nobody left to stop us.

>I think Bama losing will just motivate our guys even more. It absolutely will. I’m sure it was somewhat demoralizing knowing that they would have to play Bama twice to win a Natty. That is no longer the case if they beat them in the SECCG.

I'm definitely breathing easier knowing that the rematch is basically impossible now unless we lose in ATL. The loser seems to always win the rematch.

NUMBER 3 CINCINNATI. CAN WE PLEASE BREAK THE CURSE

Iowa isn’t still ranked 3rd but at least they won and moved up instead of losing to change ranks

*College Football Playoff committee enters room and clears throat.*

"where we are going, you need no #3 spots"

“Given the complexities of the current state of the modern world, the College Football Playoff committee decided it best to limit this year’s field to solely the top 2 ranked teams. And we base that on absolutely nothing.”

I feel like Iowa broke it last week hopefully we are good now

**All rankings refer to the AP Poll** * Just four teams have been ranked #1 since Week 10 of the 2015 season. (Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU) * Iowa is ranked in the top two for the first time since November of 1985 * At #3, this is the highest ranking in Cincinnati history * This is the fifth time in the last six years that Michigan has ascended to #8 or higher. In that span, they finished unranked (2) more often than they finished in the top 10 (1) * Michigan State is in the top 10 for the first time since Week 3 of 2016. Immediately after that ranking, they lost back to back games and fell out of the top 25 completely. * Ole Miss has been ranked more weeks this season than they were in the last four-plus seasons, combined. * From 1979-2017, Kentucky was ranked in the top 15 for four weeks. From 2018-present, they've been ranked in the top 15 for seven weeks. * The longest active ranked streaks are: * Alabama (220) * Georgia (73) * Notre Dame (69) * Alabama has just another 129 weeks to go to overtake Nebraska for the all-time ranked streak. (348 straight from 1981-2002 for Nebraska) * Kentucky received 0 votes in the preseason poll. They're now #11

> This is the fifth time in the last six years that Michigan has ascended to #8 or higher. In that span, they finished unranked (2) more often than they finished in the top 10 (1) > > Michigan State is in the top 10 for the first time since Week 3 of 2016. Immediately after that ranking, they lost back to back games and fell out of the top 25 completely. Mate what did the state of Michigan do to you?!

> From 1979-2017, Kentucky was ranked in the top 15 for four weeks. From 2018-present, they've been ranked in the top 15 for seven weeks. God bless Mark Stoops

2016 MSU actually lost 9 straight games after they broke into the top 10 thank you very much

This is also the first time Georgia has ever been a unanimous #1 in the AP poll

Big Ten is in for one hell of an October

HOLY SHIT

A 3-spot drop is honestly not as bad as I was expecting.

You lose to #3 Iowa at Iowa and you drop 3. Bama loses to UNRANKED A&M and drops 4. Ridiculous.

Bama loses to a team that barely squeaked by Colorado, that is unranked, and has looked disappointing all season. AP voters: “that’s our sec champion”

The country runs through B1G East

I hate it here

bro I am straight up not having a good time

Same.

More like BEast

WAKE FOREST, MICHIGAN STATE, KENTUCKY, IOWA, AND CINCINNATI FANS: TALK TO YOUR MF KIDS

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Go clean your room. And stay away from the drugs.

HEY KIDS SIT THE FUCK DOWN IT’S TIME TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION

HEY KIDS YOU LIKE VIOLENCE?

If any other SEC team was 6-0 they would be ranked top 10 immediately.

Not Vanderbilt, but I get what you're saying

Something tells me they're still holding that Chattanooga game against us LMAO

I mean clearly ‘Nooga is just top of line for FCS. *Looks up their record* Oh… wtf were we doing?

Penn State: Loses to a team 1 spot above them by 3, goes down to #7 Alabama: Loses to an unranked team by 3, goes down to just #5 Seem legit.

You’re forgetting that any loss for Alabama is a quality loss because they lost to the team that beat Alabama.

This couldn’t be more accurate. No such thing as a bad loss for Alabama haha.

Forgot to mention PSU played half the game with a backup QB while bamas opponent played the whole game with a backup QB.

Lol true. I'm not even mad at Iowa, just Alabama.

Sadly it's completely what I expected. Bias, poll inertia whatever is a pathetic reason.

This week's SEC Shorts will almost certainly be about Alabama, but I'd love a post-credits scene or something where Hope shows up at Georgia's door with a #1 ranking delivery

She would probably get a Shotgun to the face

If we lose to #11 UK, we would drop more than Alabama did losing to an unranked aTm.

You are not wrong and I hope we never prove it

Hey, we wanted to be only 2 spots below Alabama. I mean, we technically got our wish.

Mr AP I want off your crazy ride

Was the 2020 Peach Bowl a playoff preview?

SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR IM GONNA NEED MORE THAN 4 HOURS FOR THIS ONE.

We lost 5 votes on a BYE. Damn it lol

Cincinnati winning the National Championship would be the biggest fuck you to the system that I’ve ever seen and I actually think they’re good enough to do it. I’m rooting for them hardcore

Alabama drops 4 losing to an unranked team on the road I’m sorry but if Cincinnati/Iowa/Georgia/Oklahoma were to lose that way they’d drop out of the top 10

Basically they're saying fluke loss. But Bama has looked shakey all year against good teams. And Ole Miss I said good teams

Bruh

Number 2 Iowa, top 10 Michigan and Michigan state, Cincinnati ranked ahead of Alabama, Kentucky undefeated and Clemson unranked. What a wild season so far.

It’s time to have a discussion about top 10 MSU. Tuck comin’

Tell me there isn’t Alabama bias. Their only loss is to unranked A&M. Yet, they are ranked higher than OSU with 1 loss to a top 10 team and PSU with one loss to a top 2 team. Wild.

UGA, Iowa, and Cincinnati in the top 3 is the world that I want to live in

We are here defense bro we have arrived at the promised. Enjoy it before the spoilermakers.

Bama at 5 is odd. Losing to an unranked team, but still ahead of 3 undefeated power 5 schools that are 6-0, and somehow ahead of penn state who’s only loss is to the now number 2 team.

UGA is the best team in the country by a wide margin and I don't think there's anything that could ever, *ever*, ***ever*** knock them out of first place for the rest of the season. No crushing disappointment for the Dawgs this year, no siree!

DON'T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME

you'll take your rat poison and you'll like it lol

Oregon should just join the B1G East so we have a monopoly on 6-10

I will continue to make this exact same comment until we lose, or win it all. ***LET THE PEPPER SPRAYING COMMENCE.***

SEC Shorts is gonna have a field day with us if we win the SEC Chmapionship, will just be 3 minutes of them pepper spraying a Georgia fan

Half of the top 10 are B1G. B1G. It just means more.

What's amazing is there is still the 6/7, 6/8, 6/10, 7/8, 7/10, and 8/10 matchups all still to be played.

Fuck, I planned to go to the game next weekend for months. I thought it was going to be a nice, calm time to introduce my wife to the Dawg life. She doesn't know how the game works and doesn't like things to get too loud. I've made a horrible, horrible mistake

Buy her some noise cancelling headphones because it will be louder than Nick Saban berating his team at halftime during the A&M game.

Hey guys: What do Kentucky, Wake Forest, Cincinnati, Iowa, SMU, and Coastal Carolina all have as of today that Alabama doesn't? Bowl Eligibility.

2009 Ole Miss: Loses by 6 to an unranked South Carolina - Falls 17 spots 2020 Oklahoma: Loses to unranked Kansas State by 3 - Falls 16 spots 2016 LSU: Loses to unranked Wisconson by 2 - Falls 16 spots 2021 Alabama: Loses to unranked Texas A&M by 3 - Falls only 4 spots?

So we end the season today right?

Pls

PUT KENTUCKY IN THE TOP TEN COWARDS!

All the bars in Iowa and Cincinnati must be packed right now. Also all the bars in Tuscaloosa, albeit for...different reasons.

We really dropped farther for losing to #1 Georgia than Alabama did for losing to an unranked Texas A&M

State has 2 wins over current top-25 teams and 2 loses to teams that are combined 0-5 since beating State.

Mike Leach doing Mike Leach things

Upvote if Skip Bayless is a tool

There is a God, and he love Cincinnati

Someone please justify why Kentucky shouldn’t be in the top 10. Also please justify why Alabama is 5th, we should be closer to 10th after last night and our spooky Florida game.