Miami (FL), Texas Tech Plummet in Week 11 College Football Polls

By Kevin Kelley -

After suffering blowout losses yesterday, the Miami Hurricanes and the Texas Tech Red Raiders both plummeted in the Week 11 college football polls.

Miami, which lost to Florida State 41-14, fell seven spots to 14th in the AP, eight spots to 14th in the Coaches, and six spots to 13th in the Harris.

Texas Tech lost to Oklahoma State 52-34 and fell ten spots to 25th in the AP, eight spots to 23rd in the Coaches, and nine spots to 23rd in the Harris.

The Top 6 of the AP Poll and Harris Poll remained the same, while the Top 5 of the Coaches Poll also did not change.

Teams entering the polls this week include Notre Dame (24 AP, 25 Harris) and Arizona State (24 Coaches).

Michigan fell out of all three polls after being thumped by Michigan State 29-6.

Listed below are the complete Week 11 rankings.

AP Poll – Week 11 (Complete Rankings)

  1. Alabama
  2. Oregon
  3. Florida State
  4. Ohio State
  5. Baylor
  6. Stanford
  7. Auburn
  8. Clemson
  9. Missouri
  10. LSU
  11. Texas A&M
  12. Oklahoma
  13. South Carolina
  14. Miami (FL)
  15. Oklahoma State
  16. UCLA
  17. Fresno State
  18. Michigan State
  19. UCF
  20. Louisville
  21. Wisconsin
  22. Northern Illinois
  23. Arizona State
  24. Notre Dame
  25. Texas Tech

Coaches Poll – Week 11 (Complete Rankings)

  1. Alabama
  2. Oregon
  3. Florida State
  4. Ohio State
  5. Baylor
  6. Stanford
  7. Clemson
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Missouri
  10. Auburn
  11. Oklahoma State
  12. LSU
  13. Texas A&M
  14. Miami (FL)
  15. South Carolina
  16. Louisville
  17. Fresno State
  18. UCLA
  19. Michigan State
  20. Northern Illinois
  21. UCF
  22. Wisconsin
  23. Texas Tech
  24. Arizona State
  25. Notre Dame

Harris Poll – Week 11 (Complete Rankings)

  1. Alabama
  2. Oregon
  3. Florida State
  4. Ohio State
  5. Baylor
  6. Stanford
  7. Clemson
  8. Missouri
  9. Auburn
  10. Oklahoma
  11. LSU
  12. Texas A&M
  13. Miami (FL)
  14. Oklahoma State
  15. South Carolina
  16. Louisville
  17. Fresno State
  18. Michigan State
  19. UCLA
  20. Northern Illinois
  21. UCF
  22. Wisconsin
  23. Texas Tech
  24. Arizona State
  25. Notre Dame

Comments (6)

Don’t know how UCF is stil below Louisville in the USA and Harris polls as UCF beat Louisville 38-35 and followed that win with a dismantling of UConn 62-17.

agreed! If the head to head game result isn’t the top indicator of rankings, then what’s the point? Also, Miami was smashed by FSU. I don’t care how good your opponent is shown to be, but if you lose that game by 27 points, you deserve to drop a little further.

What Dee and Chandler are saying is that common sense should be prohibited. For example should Wake forest pull off an unlikely upset of FSU this week, they have to be ranked higher; even though everyone knows FSU would win that game 98 times out of 100.

I love having 7 undefeated teams in 7 different conferences. Just wish the playoff system was in play this year. Although, if it were, there would still be deserving teams left out (assuming for a moment that they all remained undefeated of course). I so wish it were an 8 team playoff. Some day…

For all the reasons yor mentioned, the present plan won’t last long. Just one more round would solve the problems and result in every team starting the season playing for a championship which would be decided on the field. That would make for a nice change.