Ohio State stays atop the CFP rankings; Indiana stays at 2, followed by Texas A&M

Ohio State stayed atop the College Football Playoff rankings for the second straight week Tuesday night while Indiana remained at No despite barely squeaking out a accomplishment 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 Texas Tech jumped two spots to No moving one notch ahead of Mississippi which dropped to despite a romp over Citadel in a nonconference match The biggest shifts came lower in the rankings where Miami moved up three spots to No and vaulted over Georgia Tech to claim the Atlantic Coast Conference s spot in the -team bracket And South Florida earned the No ranking which brings with it the th and final spot in the Week projected bracket At No was Oregon followed by Notre Dame and Texas No Oklahoma and No 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 South Florida The final bracket comes out Dec with the -team playoff beginning Dec and closing a month later with the title match 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 -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 - 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 saving the playoff the embarrassment of having a entirely unranked unit among the 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 Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top throughout the season Sign up here and here AP News mobile app AP college football https apnews com hub ap-top- -college-football-poll and https apnews com hub college-football Source