The Oregon Ducks remained No. 1 in the third set of College Football Playoff rankings, which were released on Tuesday night. The Ducks, who currently sit at 11-0 overall and 8-0 in Big Ten play, were followed by Ohio State at No. 2 and Texas at No. 3. Penn State and Indiana round out the top five teams.
But the real shakeup this week came when the selection committee ranked Boise State No. 12, two spots ahead of BYU (14) and four spots ahead of Colorado (16). After the Cougars suffered their first loss of the season this past weekend, a 17-13 defeat to Kansas (4-6), it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the committee was unkind to BYU. However, with Boise State now ranked ahead of BYU, we must accept a scenario where a G5 champion might be one of the four…
