NMP Week 4

1 Ohio St

2 Indiana

3 Texas A&M

4 Alabama

5 Georgia

6 Oregon

7 Miami

8 Ole Miss

9 Oklahoma

10 Vanderbilt

11 Texas Tech

12 Missouri

13 Georgia Tech

14 Notre Dame

15 BYU

16 USF

17 Tennessee

18 Louisville

19 Texas

20 Arizona St

21 Cincinnati

22 LSU

23 Michigan

24 USC

25 Virginia

Others getting votes: Illinois, Houston, Iowa, Utah

Added: Louisville, Arizona St, Virginia, Michigan

Dropped: Memphis, Utah, Washington, Nebraska

Biggest winners: BYU (8), Vandy (5) Cincy (3)

Biggest losers: LSU (9), Tennessee (6), Miami (6), USC (6)

Lots of movement this week in the NMP, only 1 team did not change their ranking this week, Mizzou. Ohio St and Indiana are pretty self explanatory. Bama is closing the gap on TAMU, 4 ranked wins in a row is crazy to do, only thing holding them back from having an argument for #1 is that loss to FSU. Georgia gets a huge comeback win over Ole Miss, secures their spot over Oregon who destroys Rutgers. Miami and Ole Miss both fall, I am going to keep their order that I’ve had all season with them so far, Miami’s loss is worse yes, but seems a little flukey to me with the 4 INTs. Not far behind is Oklahoma, Vandy, TTU, Mizzou, and Ga Tech. Oklahoma is still the best of the bunch to me, Vandy is proving that they have a legit shot at playoffs, TTU stumbles with their backup QB, so its hard to punish them as much as normal, still a really great, dominant team. Mizzou goes to 2OT @ Auburn and Georgia Tech holds off Duke. You could put these 4 in any order and I really wouldn’t complain with any order. I just need to see Georgia Tech against a little better competition or be a little more dominant for me to push them ahead of this pack as it stands. Notre Dame keeps rolling, BYU makes me eat my words, they’re good, not great still. Tennessee takes a second loss, this time to Bama, Louisville gets a nice Friday win @ Miami, they’ve been sneaky good all year and they finally got to prove it. Texas avoids a scare to… Kentucky… Their talent on the roster is keeping them afloat right now in my rankings, very very thin ice. Arizona St gets a huge win over TTU, regardless of whos at QB its still a great win for them. 21-25 is once again hard to rank, Cincy keeps rolling, LSU tumbles again, hard to overlook the 2 losses at this point. Michigan gets a dominant win over a solid Washington team, USC gets destroyed on the ground against Notre Dame but still a pretty good team in my eyes. And then you have UVA… don’t believe in them, but here they are with only 1 loss, although that FSU win is getting worse by the week. Seems to be a pretty calm week upcoming but thats when chaos happens.

Heisman race:

1 Ty Simpson, Alabama

2 Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt

3 Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss

4 Julian Saiyan, Ohio St

5 Fernanado Mendoza, Indiana

Expanded to 5 this week to encompass the fight for the #2 spot in my eyes, Beck threw his way out of the race on Friday. Ty has a very large margin right now over the rest, I think its his to lose at this point. Total command of the offense, picking apart any defense he’s faced minus FSU, and has the numbers and moments to back it up. Pavia is on a Manziel run right now so I wouldn’t count him out, truly the heart and soul of Vandy right now. Trinidad’s case took a hit in the 4th vs UGA but still put up good numbers and 35 points on a Kirby Smart Georgia defense. Julian and Fernando do have decent numbers so far, I just don’t think they’ve that moment or game when it was them who stepped up and dominated.

Key games:

8 Ole Miss @ 9 Oklahoma

16 USF @ Memphis

12 Mizzou @ 10 Vandy

3 Texas A&M @ 22 LSU

Houston @ 20 Arizona St