NMP Week 2

1 Miami

2 Ole Miss

3 Oregon

4 Ohio St

5 Texas A&M

6 Oklahoma

7 Alabama

8 Georgia

9 Texas Tech

10 Missouri

11 Tennessee

12 Indiana

13 LSU

14 Arizona St

15 Georgia Tech

16 Michigan

17 Vanderbilt

18 Notre Dame

19 Memphis

20 Illinois

21 Washington

22 Florida St

23 BYU

24 Cincinnati

25 Utah

Others getting votes: Virginia, Texas, USF, Nebraska

Added: Notre Dame, Illinois, Washington, BYU, Cincinnati

Dropped: Texas, Penn St, Iowa St, Mississippi St, Virginia

Biggest winners: Georgia Tech (5), Michigan (5)

Biggest losers: Florida St (9), Vanderbilt (3)

This week at the top was pretty standard, but middle to lower in the rankings it was a party. This week was a difficult one to rank after #17. But, let’s start at the top. Miami beats up on FSU, still look far and away the best team right now. TAMU dominates a surprisingly good Miss St team. OU shines with a backup QB (yes, I know it was Kent St). Bama gets revenge, UGA destroys a poor Kentucky team, and Texas Tech rolls again. #10-#15 were all on bye weeks, so no change in the order there, just slide them all up accordingly. Vandy loses to Bama to get their first loss of the season, was a great game and was closer than the score shows, no need to punish them too much for now. Notre Dame joins the party, and honestly might have been poor oversight by me last week to not rank them, but here they are. They’ve beaten the teams they’re supposed to beat how they should be beating them, and have 2 losses to 2 top 5 teams by a combined 4 points. Memphis gets bowl eligible, rolling right now behind Brendon Lewis. Illinois balls out through the air vs Purdue. Still don’t fully trust them but they have bounced back nicely from their loss. Washington comes back from a 20-0 hole to win 24-20 @Maryland, a solid team with a relatively close loss to Ohio St. FSU loses to Miami, kept them in with their win over Bama, still a tough team to play. BYU, Cincy, and Utah I am honestly not too confident in them. I think they’re all just flat out worse than FSU, so thats why they are behind them. BYU takes the first spot due to being undefeated, Cincy slots in with the win over Iowa St, and Utah still has the Texas Tech loss in my mouth due to the bye week. I don’t normally speak on unranked teams, but Texas and Penn St are embarrassing right now, I was tempted to keep Texas in purely for the quality of losses they have, but Penn St is just straight up bad right now.

Heisman:

Carson Beck, Miami

Ty Simpson, Alabama

Ahmad Hardy, Missouri

Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss

Key Games:

Alabama @ Mizzou

4 Ohio St @ 20 Illinois

12 Indiana @ 3 Oregon

Texas vs 6 Oklahoma

Florida @ 5 Texas A&M

14 Arizona St @ 25 Utah