Texas No. 1 for Second Week in-a-row in Congrove Computer Rankings

September 15, 2024 by CollegeFootballPoll.com Staff

Texas continues to impress, and doesn't miss a beat when Quinn Ewers leaves the game with an injury in the second quarter, because having Arch Manning as a backup is like having a Ferrari as your second car.  That scenario played out this past Saturday as the Longhorns took care of UTSA 56-7 and remain No. 1 for the second week in the Congrove Computer Rankings at CollegeFootballPoll.com.

Meanwhile, the voters in the Super 16 and AP polls caught on and moved Texas into first place this week. The coaches, however, still gave far more first-place votes to Georgia than Texas.

Georgia slipped from 4th to 6th In the computer rankings where preseason No. 1 Oregon moved back up a notch from 3rd to 2nd with its rout of Oregon State in the Civil War. Idle Ohio State is 3rd, ahead of Ole Miss and Alabama.

Rounding out the top ten are idle USC in 7th, with Penn State, Tennessee and Louisville chasing.

Miami (FL) leads off the second ten as Oklahoma take 12th.

Notre Dame jumps 8 spots back up the ladder, from 21 to 13,  after a 66-7 rout at Purdue. The Irish had fallen from 10 to 21 with their 16-14 home upset loss to Northern Illinois last week.

Missouri, which rallied at home to knock off Boston College 27-21, is down a notch from 13 to 14.

The remaining teams in the Top 20 are Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Utah, Memphis, Iowa and Kansas State.

The 16-team SEC and 18-member B1G own the top nine spots, and the ACC occupies the next two. The Big 12 takes the 15 through 17 spots, as well as No. 20.

The highest-ranked team from a non-Power 4 conference is Memphis from the American. On Saturday, the Tigers went to Florida State and defeated former head coach Mike Norvell and the Seminoles 20-12. FSU was the preseason ACC favorite and ranked 8th by the computer before the first game was played. Now 0-3, the 'Noles have fallen all the way down to No. 70, including a 25-spot drop from No. 45 last week.

Boise State represents the Mountain West at No. 27, Northern Illinois gives the MAC its highest spot at No. 30, and Louisiana-Lafayette tops the Sun Belt schools at No. 42

The highest-ranked Mountain West team is Boise State, which fell from 24 to 32 after losing to Oregon.

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