Ohio State stayed atop the College Football Playoff rankings for the second straight week Tuesday night, while Indiana remained at No. 2 despite barely squeaking out a victory last week while third-ranked Texas A&M coasted.
Alabama and Georgia rounded out the same top five as in last week's season-opening rankings. Louisville fell from No. 15 to No. 20 after losing in overtime to California.
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Texas Tech jumped two spots to No. 6, moving one notch ahead of Mississippi, which dropped to 7 despite a romp over Citadel in a nonconference game.
The biggest shifts came lower in the rankings, where Miami moved up three spots to No. 15 and vaulted over Georgia Tech to claim the Atlantic Coast Conference's spot in the 12-team bracket. And South Florida earned the No. 24 ranking, which brings with it the 12th and final spot in the Week 2 projected bracket.
At No. 8 was Oregon, followed by Notre Dame and Texas.
No. 11 Oklahoma and No. 12 BYU would be the first two teams out in this week's bracket due to the automatic spots handed to the ACC (Miami) and the highest-ranked league leader out of the Group of 5 (South Florida).
The final bracket comes out Dec. 7, with the 12-team playoff beginning Dec. 19 and closing a month later with the title game.
Indiana needed last-second heroics to squeak past Penn State last weekend, while Texas A&M romped on the road at Missouri. That, however, didn’t change the 12-person selection committee’s analysis of the top three, who are the only remaining undefeated teams in the rankings.
Miami moved up three spots after an expected 38-10 win over Syracuse, while idle Georgia Tech only moved up two spots. This looked like a correction of sorts for the Hurricanes, who have a win over Notre Dame and a blowout against South Florida on their resume.
The Bulls went from unranked to No. 24, saving the playoff the embarrassment of having a completely unranked team among the 12 in the projected bracket for the second straight week. South Florida looked like a good bet to earn that fifth conference-champion slot earlier in the season, and reclaimed the position after Memphis lost to Tulane last week.
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