Baylor vs Kansas 2015 Score Delivers AP Top 25 Poll College Football

We’re getting closer and closer to seeing how the College Football Playoff committee ranks teams. Their best win according to FEI’s rankings is their road victory over Virginia Tech to start the season; that is the lone game where the Buckeyes covered the Vegas spread. What might matter most for these three teams is to win at least three or four games in blowout fashion, so that they can find time to take a breath and save more mental energy for the tests that will require their best.

In baseball, most of the teams which won 110 or more games were able to win the pennant (or their division) by a considerable amount of games.

No. 23 Cal (5-0) at No. 5 Utah, late. Clemson’s a deserved fifth, while Notre Dame squeezes into ninth after rolling past once-unbeaten Navy – with a few help from Clemson, which topped the Fighting Irish by just two points at home.

Alabama – Knocked off Arkansas, but not easily – the Tide trailed 7-3 at the half and led only 10-7 through three quarters. Be interesting to see how Leonard Fournette does against the Gators defense this week.

Saturday afternoon has a big SEC clash as Alabama hits the road to face Texas A&M.

The title odds for Michigan State, this week’s opponent for Michigan, are 20-1, tied with Mississippi and the 10th-best odds in the nation.

No. 4 Utah vs. Arizona State, 10 p.m.

No one should expect Ohio State, Florida State, and Michigan State to breeze through the remaining portions of their seasons without incident or difficulty.

Iowa – Giving them a big bump here because, even though they only beat lowly Illinois, they are 6-0 and it’s time I give them a nod for that. Oklahoma State jumped five spots from #21 to #16 after they beat West Virginia 33-26 on the road in OT in a fun game to watch.

New to the top 25: Memphis and Toledo. The hard slogs in the salt mines just kept coming, with the Noles sweating and toiling but regularly escaping one determined opponent after the other.

#14 North Carolina – Other than a loss in Charlotte against in-state rival South Carolina 17-13, there’s nothing wrong with this 4-1 club. Michigan State seemed awakened from its lull against Purdue on October 3, so it quickly got tangled up somehow at Rutgers in a complicated 31-24 win that required a 10-play, 76-yard drive to counter Rutgers’s 16-play, 91-yard drive with its fourth-and-6 conversion. As well as #23 and #24 from last week-Syracuse and Miami-who each accrued their second losses of the season this past weekend.

Not to be completely lost or ignored in this discussion is Michigan State, which has been eroded by injuries to important players on both sides of the ball, especially in the secondary and (most of all) on the offensive line. Beating Syracuse and Eastern Michigan – and struggling a bit – doesn’t help. TCU has a veteran quarterback and Baylor has a first-year starer. Sure, a number of programs have shown flashes of potential, but are any of them truly elite? Losing to a very shaky Tennessee team to drop to 4-2 overall and 2-2 in the SEC is not a good way to make people forget that. Baylor has only played one top 50 FEI ranked team this season. They also have an average MOV of almost two touchdowns in those contests.