Texas Re-takes The No. 1 Computer Ranking

October 13, 2024 by CollegeFootballPoll.com Staff

The dramatic finishes came in at a frenetic pace on Saturday, but the top teams largely survived. At the end of it all, the top three teams simply played musical chairs. Texas, which was No. 2, moves back to No. 1 with an emphatic 34-3 win over Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry game. Ohio State goes from 1 to 3 and Oregon moves up from 3 to 2 after a 32-31 win by the Ducks over the Buckeyes in Eugene.

The new FBS Congrove Computer Rankings at CollegeFootballPoll.com were released early Sunday morning after the completion of the weekend's game, a 28-7 win by Boise State at Hawaii.

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Penn State stays at No. 4 upon rallying for a 33-30 overtime win at then-No. 20, now No. 34, USC.

Idle Miami gets a 3-spot lift to No. 5 while Georgia, a 41-31 winner over SEC cellar dweller Mississippi State, hangs on to the No. 6 spot.

Iowa State rises from 9 to 7 after a 28-16 victory at West Virginia, while Alabama drops a spot to No. 8 upon a narrow 27-25 escape of South Carolina's upset bid in Tuscaloosa.

Notre Dame inches up from 10th to 9th with its 49-7 whipping of Stanford, and Clemson cracks the Top Ten after a 49-14 rumble at Wake Forest.

The repositioning of those teams was made possible by a second Ole Miss loss that sent the Rebels plunging from 5th to 11th. LSU was the culprit this time with the Bayou Bengals getting the 29-26 win in overtime in Baton Rouge.

Joining USC in its exit of the Top 25 is Oklahoma, which dives 9 spots to No. 26 with the thumping the Sooners took at the hands of the Longhorns.

Utah also dropped out as the Utes descended from 23rd to 37th after a 27-19 loss at Arizona State.

The three teams taking the place of USC, LSU and Utah, are Memphis at 23, Michigan at 24 and Louisville at 25.

Boise State (Mountain West) is still the highest-ranked Group of Five school at No. 17, with Army (American) five spots back at No. 22.

Liberty leads all CUSA squads at No. 31, and Louisiana tops all other Sun Belt members at No. 31, while the MAC isn't found until you look all the way down to the No. 51 spot and find Northern Illinois.