Probably be ranked only #4 next week. 
Colorado getting embarrassed by a Nebraska team that’s been quite poor since Bo Pelini was fired a decade ago. Hopefully this helps lead to less Coach Prime being shoved down our throats, but I doubt it.
Didn’t watch a lot today, but I did catch a big chunk of the absolute beatdown Texas put on Michigan.
I wasn’t really watching it, but it was on-screen with music playing. I was doing stuff on the laptop, but every time I glanced up, Sanders was being piledriven into the ground by the Husker defense.
I wonder how long this kid can take that?
Coaches have Notre Dame 18th; AP has them 19th. Note that both have them below Michigan now. Assuming no non-Power 4 conference champion finishes in the top 11, Notre Dame has to get to 11 or better in the CFP rankings (which will start on 11/5 this season) in order to get into the playoff.
I’m a big Notre Dame fan. Since the Holtz era. Can’t say I’ve missed a game.
That was brutal. Heartbreaking.
I think ND wants to be a passing team, but does not have a passing QB. I’d think you’ll somehow see a back up QB play, at least some, next week at Purdue (if ND insists on being a passing team).
As an Oregon fan, I’m apprehensive about the upcoming Big Ten season, as we’ve struggled to beat Idaho and Boise State so far (although previously we were somehow 0-4 all time against BSU, so I guess that’s something). The degree of difficulty is going WAY up soon.
My condolences.
In all fairness Oregon as been hyped this year as National Championship Game Baby! and I have no clue why. You were not conference champions last year. You lost Nix and he was replaced by a transfer from Central Florida. Your secondary is awesome but your offense is questionable. tl;dr the expecations are set way too high for where the Ducks are at.
Washington on the other hand … New NCAA Champions. Score in the game will be Washington 627 Georgia -10
I’m surprised Notre Dame only fell down to 18# in the rankings. For comparison, when Appalachian State stunned No. 5 Michigan seventeen years ago, Michigan fell entirely out of the Top 25.
In other words, with the recent college playoff expansion, this means that even being upset by a lowly team like Northern Illinois by no means means the Fighting Irish are out of playoff contention.
Georgia looks a bit vulnerable compared to its previous juggernaut self.
“Texas is baaaaack, y’all” was a punch line for several years, but the Horns are indeed truly back now.
Counterargument: It’s true we didn’t win the conference championship last year, but we lost the title game by only three points. Dillon Gabriel, despite being from Central Florida, is a consensus Heisman Trophy candidate this year. Nine of our starters are transfers, so it’s to be expected it might take some time to mesh. Last season we started the season by barely beating Texas Tech and wound up 12-2 and ranked sixth nationally.
We’ll see how things go against the Beavis this weekend.
I didn’t mean to make it sounds like you guys suck (but you’re right, you did lose the now-Pac2 championship game 
). I think you will have a very good season. The point I was making is Oregon was being set up to fail as starting #3 in the nation and talks about being a national championship contender. If the talk were being an upper-eschelon Big-10 team then that’s fair.
And I checked DraftKings. Washington is a 362 point favorite over Oregon on November 30th.
As someone who knows ND’s team, I’m surprised too.
However, I think 17 years ago a Div II** team beating Michigan/“great” team was unheard of. It’s happened more often since then and maybe taken the shock value out of it. Also, that Michigan game was the first game of the season, ND at least has already beaten a ranked SEC team to help justify a ranking. Somewhat grasping at straws here but I think this is probably the reason.
**NIU is not DIV II/FCS (they are Div 1/FBS), but still a 28pt underdog/regional team.
I didn’t know we had a former President of The United States posting here! 
This isn’t “just” college football related, but it seems like an appropriate spot to talk about it.
The Pac-12 will add Boise State, Fresno State, Colorado State, and San Diego State starting with the 2026-27 season. The only problem is, it still needs at least two more schools that play football in order to be considered an FBS conference.
During the massive re-alignment that obliterated the Pac 12, the west coast schools left behind floated the idea of forming a large conference with two tiers of divisions and implementing promotion and relegation. I hope that idea isn’t dead because it could be great fun to observe.
Oops, guess I missed an opportunity to celebrate Iowa State beating Iowa with a last-second field goal, in Kinnick Stadium. A truly heartbreaking loss, leading to Iowa dropping from the top 25, and Iowa State taking their place. Suck it, Hawkeyes.
I only get to do this roughly twice a decade, so I take my wins when I can.
The main difficulty would be deciding who would initially be in the upper tier. Every school will want to be and they probably couldn’t come to an agreement on how to decide.
But maybe the Pac-12 and MWC should have just done a full merger. Keep the name Pac-12, combine their assets, but most of the schools would be former MWC schools, of course. And it’d have 13 schools, but that kind of nitpicking hasn’t kept the Big-10 from keeping its name despite having way more than 10 teams.
I agree with the startup difficulties but the leverage kinda shifts to the newly formed conference over the less marketable and successful schools. “You can join our second tier and have a chance to earn your way into the top division or you can keep playing those home-and-aways in Lynchburg ( or wherever their current conference placement takes them).”
It’s a long shot. But I think it would be great fun to have a league like that. And I want college football to be fun.
There are a number of problems with this.
First, how do you decide who - or for that matter, how many - goes up and goes down? You can’t have any sort of playoff game to do that, as it would count against each team’s 12-game regular season limit, assuming step 1 in the whole process isn’t getting the NCAA to change its bylaws to allow for this sort of game, the way it allows for a conference championship game.
Second, the scheduling issue - the teams that switch suddenly have to change their entire conference schedule on nine months’ notice.
Third, the top tier schools are going to demand that the upper level get more money out of it than the lower one. If the conference has 16 teams, the top tier has an advantage; it can leave and form its own conference.
(I was going to say that doing it this way prevented the conference from holding a championship game, as it used to require either playing every team in the conference or playing every team in the division and then have the division winners play in the championship game, but all restrictions on a conference championship game, other than it has to be one game and not a tournament of any sort, were removed in 2022.)
Florida State goes to 0-3 after starting the season in the top ten. I guess instead of spending the whole offseason moaning and bitching about how victimized they were, they might have wanted to run some more drills.