Penn State slides up in new College Football Playoff rankings

For a change, nothing moved at the top of the College Football Playoff rankings. MI beat IN in the snow last week with the fewest passing yards it has recorded IN a game since 2001. No. 23 Washington State, No. 9 Colorado vs.

Penn State slid up a spot in the fourth edition of the rankings to No. 7, announced on Tuesday night.

It could surface in the Big Ten Title game, depending on how Michigan-Ohio State plays out. No. 3 Michigan, No. 5 Washington vs.

A college football news roundup that includes Notre Dame being forced to vacate wins and a key Ohio State player returning for the matchup against MI.

“Josh is a huge spark guy and he’s not even at 100 per cent and he’s still flying around”, Banks said.

It’ll be the final home game for a handful of Penn State seniors in a season that started with unprecedented injuries and brutal losses to Pittsburgh and MI, continued with calls for Franklin to be fired by a restless fan-base and now potentially could end on an eight-game winning streak and a chance to play for a conference title. Because of a tie-breaker, a Buckeyes win will make Penn State the division victor if the Nittany Lions beat Michigan State. There’s also the Big 12 rivalry game in Bedlam, as well as should the Big Ten have two teams in the field?

Ohio State: H-B Curtis Samuel. Then, Ohio State plays MI, following a Big Ten championship featuring two of those four Big 10 teams, or Wisconsin loses to Minnesota prior preventing the Badgers from reaching that point. Clemson remains in control of its destiny in the Atlantic Coast Conference, with a rivalry date with SC preceding a return appearance in the conference championship game. He said those two criteria are only to be used to break ties, but in the committee’s eyes, there is no tie because it already views Ohio State as a better team than Penn State.

“We’re going to do something together”, he said. Colorado Buffaloes (9-2) 10.

That puts unbeaten Western Michigan in the best position to go to the Cotton Bowl if it wins the Mid-American Conference but still in danger of being nudged out if Boise State wins its conference. No. 22 Utah and No. 14 Florida State vs. Clemson Tigers (10-1) 5. “Very rarely do they play out to be the person that you thought they were”. Penn State players will likely know the result before their game kicks off. Washington Huskies (10-1) 6. There are others that argue that USC should be in if it wins the Pac-12, despite having three losses.

But Washington is short where it counts: in overall strength of schedule and in a meaningful, season-defining victory. His 1,458 all-purpose yards is second in the Big Ten. The game usually has special meaning because both schools recruit in-state talent – almost 100 players from Kansas dot the rosters of the two teams. Oklahoma State would only have a loss at Baylor, and that loss to Central Michigan.

James Franklin always has a singular focus with his own team, but he did acknowledge Tuesday that he will talk to his players about what’s at stake in the earlier game.

“None of that matters if we don’t handle on business on Saturday, ” Franklin said. “Once we cut out those penalties, we’ve been right there in every game”.

DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Michigan State goes quietly in the second half.

Colgate plays its fifth-straight on the road, visiting Columbia on Saturday.