NMP Week 10
Oregon
Texas
Notre Dame
Penn St
Georgia
Tennessee
Ohio St
SMU
South Carolina
Arizona St
Indiana
Boise St
Ole Miss
Alabama
Miami
Iowa St
Colorado
Clemson
Syracuse
UNLV
Memphis
Tulane
Texas A&M
Missouri
Army
Others Getting Votes: BYU, Duke
Added: Mizzou
Dropped: BYU
Biggest Winners: South Carolina (4), Iowa St (4)
Biggest Losers: Miami (9), Ohio St (5), Tulane (5), Texas A&M (5)
Another wild week to cap off the regular season, upsets, close games, 8!!!! overtimes. One of the wildest seasons I’ve seen in a while—finally. Oregon finishes undefeated, easy #1. Texas slides up, easy. Notre Dame and Penn St, both with an easy 11-1 record, really really close to each other, I flipped them simply because from what I’ve seen, I just think Notre Dame would beat them right now. Notre Dame has yet to be tested through the air, so Penn St is a more solid team just barely because they have been tested but I still think ND beats them. UGA, Tenn, and OSU. All 3 are really the same team, slow starts, struggle vs lower competition, moments of brilliance and dominance. UGA over Tenn is simple- head to head. Ohio St is below both, the Michigan loss at home is just too big of a blemish to overlook. SMU slots in nicely at 8. Now the 2 hottest teams in America, South Carolina and Arizona St. Gave SCar the edge because they are a more complete team, ferocious DLine. Boise St and Indiana slot in at 11 and 12. Ole Miss still above Bama, same reasons as before, both above Miami because of quality of teams beaten, Miami just simply doesn’t have the caliber of teams beaten to be that high and has now lost the benefit of the doubt with 2 losses. Iowa St gets 10 wins for the first time in school history, slides above Colorado now. Clemson once again loses to a good team, Syracuse comes back vs Miami after being down 21-0, just slightly worse than Clemson right now. UNLV slides above Tulane with their loss, above Memphis still because they are more complete. TAMU takes another L, this time to Texas. I still think they’re a top 25 team in America, above Mizzou because of head to head. I will finally acknowledge Missouri’s season, reluctantly… they finished strong, which I am honestly shocked by. Then 1 loss Army rounds out the top 25 above BYU. Just think they’re better.
Heisman Race:
1 Travis Hunter, Colorado
2 Ashton Jeanty, Boise St
Travis is pretty locked in at number 1 for me right now, would take a massive game from Jeanty to overcome the deficit in my eyes.
Key Games:
2 Texas vs 5 Georgia
1 Oregon vs 4 Penn St
8 SMU vs 18 Clemson
10 Arizona St vs 16 Iowa St
22 Tulane @ 25 Army
20 UNLV @ 12 Boise St
Western Kentucky @ Jacksonville St
Ohio @ Miami (OH)
Marshall @ UL Lafayette