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Ben’s Top 10 College Football Rankings Week 13 Roundup
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11/23/2024
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It's Ben's top 10. The teams that I have ranked top 10 around the country with the waitlist.
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The teams just on the outside looking to get in. No particular order out of this grouping of five
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teams, but where I see it right now, Ole Miss, unlike how the CFP committee has them, outside
00:18
of the top 10, but ever so slightly. The Cougars, their first loss of the season a week ago,
00:24
they drop outside of the top 10 as well. Tennessee falls out after the loss to Georgia
00:29
in a game the Vols really needed to have. SMU is here, the undefeated team in the ACC,
00:36
and with one victory in their final two, they will play in that conference championship game.
00:41
Colorado remains on the waitlist in that front-running position as the favorites cab
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within the Big 12. Yeah, so one team that I would have wanted on the waitlist, and again,
00:51
it'll be inconsequential in a little bit, but I do think Army. One point I think I made you
00:56
during a commercial break, but so Indiana unbeaten on the 106th schedule is going to be,
01:02
I imagine, somewhere within your top five, and I know it was in the committee's top five.
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Army, 30 spots worse. It's definitely easier, but also unbeaten, also destroying everyone.
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Can't crack a waitlist. Can't crack a top 15. I think Indiana, again, it's very, but Indiana is
01:21
getting the power conference bias that everyone is so scared they're going to lose when they lose
01:27
to Ohio State. Oh, the SEC, the SEC. Like, man, Indiana's getting a lot of favors done for them.
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He stole my thunder with Army because obviously I'm assuming Boise State's in the top 10, so
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if they do get the victory tonight, what happens? I want to bring up Tennessee because Tennessee
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plays Vanderbilt, right, in terms of last regular season game, and then knowing where they are
01:48
right now, they really, in order to just get in, they need others to drop games. They don't
01:54
control their own destiny, so how confident are you in them right there? I mean, we know they
02:01
have a great defense. We know they beat Alabama, but knowing the game that they lost last week,
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they're like just stuck right there waiting for things to happen. It is a quality win against
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the Crimson Tide, there is no doubt, but Tennessee having those multiple losses now
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in conference play does not control its own destiny for the SEC championship,
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very likely will not play in that conference title game, at least he got reflected in this
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number 11 ranking in the CFP top 25. Tennessee fell back by four spots just because they're in
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the top 12, they would actually be on the outside looking in at the college football
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playoff projected. Yeah, the last thing I would say is, you know, for me personally,
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I did come around a little bit on Ole Miss. I actually think they are worthy of getting inside
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that top 10. The win over Georgia, ultimately with what the Bulldogs did, the follow-up game
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against Tennessee, it looks even better. The South Carolina win goes under the radar, held
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that team to three points. Look, the Kentucky loss is terrible. It's terrible, a lot of people
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have forgotten about it, you certainly have not. It's a marginal difference, but still for me,
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nobody thinks Boise's better than Ole Miss. Ultimately, Ole Miss has much better victories
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than that, and Boise lost the Washington State, you know, win that they were kind of holding as,
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hey, we've done a little bit of something here today. So for me, I think Boise's still getting
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too much respect because of Gente's star power. Now let me just pose a question. Let's just say
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SMU drops tonight in Virginia, they have two losses, and Colorado wins, right? But let's
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just say somehow, some way they're out of the title game due to, you know, mathematics. If
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it's SMU and Colorado, let's just say fighting for a 12th spot, who are you letting in?
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At large or? At large. They both have to run the table and lose in the conference title game.
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Assuming certain things happen where they're battling it out, which team are we giving the
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edge to? But that's what we're seeing here, not only in my rankings, but also in how the
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college football playoff selection committee deems it. We're talking one bid leads for both the ACC
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and the Big 12. Whether that's justified or not, you feel it's unfair or not, that's what we are
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seeing. So if either of these two teams do not win their conference crown, I don't think either
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of them are getting in to the college football playoff. Let's get to the top 10. We'll go in
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reverse order, working our way up from 10 through 6. I have Miami here at number 10, a 40 to 1
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price to win a national championship. I have been high on Boise all year long. The Broncos remain
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inside my top 10. Penn State is number 8 in my top 10. They're number 4 for the college football
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playoff selection committee. The resume is not great for the Nittany Lions, but only one loss to
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Ohio State. Georgia also higher in my top 10 than that of the committee. The Dogs are 10 from the
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committee, number 7 for me. Alabama with the head-to-head and where they stand with their
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multiple quality wins, number 6, Kev. So Penn State did for the first time in some time, they
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would crack my hypothetical top 10. I think that there's just been a lot. BYU falls far, Tennessee
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falls far. I think things worked out for them. I just, look, it's kind of this interesting thing,
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it's been going on for a few weeks now, where you are ranking Georgia comfortably, you know,
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more favorably than that of the committee. So I can't come kicking and screaming. I still don't,
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I still would have them significantly higher personally. I would have them in front of
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Alabama. I know Bama beat them. Great, cool. This is not just a head-to-head thing because
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there's a team here, right? Again, let's be kind to the big 10. No top 25 wins, lost by 15 in their
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own building to the one good team that they played in Georgia. Like, I just think the Bulldogs should
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be top 5. You're someone who's always said that wins matter, and I think sometimes it's been under
05:43
the guidelines of wins matter, that's why losing games is going to hurt you. Wins matter, they have
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the best wins in college football, Georgia, and they're not being rewarded enough for it. No,
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they're playing well, they're starting to peak. If we see that type of Georgia the rest of the
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way against Georgia Tech, and if somehow, some way they get into the SEC championship game,
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they're going to be there. I guess for me, the question is, can Miami do anything to get,
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maybe from 10, obviously win an ACC championship, but can they get to top 5, in your opinion,
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based off of where they are right now? No, I don't believe so. One of the reasons I have Miami
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at 10, is when you look at the hurricane schedule now, they only have two wins against teams that
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are FBS programs with a winning record above 500. That is actually fewer than both Penn State and
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Boise State. The Broncos have four wins against FBS teams above 500. Penn State currently with
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only three. The Nittany Lions technically have a ranked win against the CFP Top 25 team.
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Illinois is boosting a couple of resumes, but so too is Missouri out of the SEC. It's why Alabama
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has three Top 25 wins against teams ranked inside that CFP poll. Let's now move on,
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work through my top five, much like the selection committee, really has not changed week over week.
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Indiana still at five, Notre Dame at four, Texas at three, Ohio State, and then Oregon,
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still the top team in the country. I do want to focus though, Lacey Guy, on Texas, because a lot
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of the conversation over the last week and a half has been focused on Indiana and the strength
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of resume. Well, how about Penn State in that same conference? What about Miami? How are we
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comparing a Boise State team that has now vaulted in front of BYU, despite just one loss for the
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Cougars as well? Texas is not exactly in the most prime position to withstand some of those arguments
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if they were to falter in two weeks in the Lone Star Showdown at College Station.
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I couldn't agree more. They played down to Vanderbilt, won that ball game by three,
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the big game. They lost to Georgia in their house by double digits, and they're
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laying 19 and a half down from 20 and a half against Kentucky. Seven and a half point favorites
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next week after Thanksgiving against A&M. They're going to have to win both of those games, in my
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opinion, with style points to solidify that. You don't want any doubt if they're not going to make
08:05
the SEC championship game dominate, but they still have the brand recognition. And again,
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that win early on against Michigan will hold some weight, where Michigan did have the 23-game
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home-winning streak, in my opinion, with the committee. It helps in the argument against
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Indiana, right? I will just make this point because, look, for me, that would be my 1-2.
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I think Texas and Indiana against Georgia, it's close.
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