Mississippi State, Florida State, Auburn and Oregon, in that order, occupy the top four spots in the second College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday by the CFP selection committee. The top three spots remained the same as the first rankings, released Oct. 28. But Oregon moved up from fifth to replace Mississippi in the fourth spot.
Ole Miss dropped seven spots to 11th after a 35-31 loss to Auburn, the second consecutive loss for the Rebels.
The selection committee will prepare five more rankings this season, including the final one on Selection Day, Sunday, Dec. 7. The top four teams in the final rankings will play in the semifinals on January 1, 2015, at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual and the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
“As we said last time, our meeting this week would begin with a clean sheet of paper, and it did,” said selection chairman Jeff Long. “We firmly believe this is one of the strengths of the committee. We have twelve individuals who work each week to decide who the best teams are in college football. We are not bound by last week’s results and we watch the games with a fresh perspective each week.”
You can find the entire rankings for week No. 11 here.
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