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College football Week 11 straight-up picks<\/p>\n
Before The Snap’s Week 11 picks include Texas Tech-BYU, Texas A&M-Missouri, Oregon-Iowa, Cal-Louisville and LSU-Alabama.<\/p>\n
This was the moment for No. 6 Oregon.<\/p>\n
Down 16-15 to No. 20 Iowa<\/a> with 1:51 remaining, the Ducks<\/a> drove 54 yards in 10 plays and made a 39-yard field goal with three seconds left to notch a must-have win against a ranked opponent<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is the result the College Football Playoff<\/a> selection committee was waiting for.<\/p>\n In explaining why the committee had the Ducks No. 9 in last week\u2019s debut rankings<\/a>, chair Mack Rhoades expressed reservations about their r\u00e9sum\u00e9, which before Saturday featured just one victory against an opponent with a winning record.<\/p>\n While there\u2019s still more work to be done \u2013 and opportunities to further impress the committee against Minnesota, No. 21 Southern California and Washington \u2013 the win in Iowa City helps bring the Ducks\u2019 r\u00e9sum\u00e9 more in line with their reputation as one of the best teams in the Power Four.<\/p>\n Looking ahead to Tuesday night\u2019s rankings, Oregon is assured of climbing at least one spot and inching closer to an at-large berth.<\/p>\n The Ducks, Texas A&M and Brigham Young lead Saturday\u2019s biggest winners and losers:<\/p>\n WinnersTexas A&M<\/p>\n No. 3 Texas A&M turned a fumble recovery into a touchdown late in the first half and pulled away coming out of the break for a 38-17 win at No. 22 Missouri<\/a>, the team\u2019s third road win this season against an opponent that was in the Top 25. After some diminishing returns in a shootout win against Arkansas<\/a> and over the first two quarters against LSU, the A&M defense carried over the ferocious close in Baton Rouge to hold Missouri to just 284 yards and harassed freshman quarterback Matt Zollers into just passing 77 yards on 3.5 yards per attempt. The only unbeaten team in the SEC, the Aggies\u2019 convincing win might trigger a debate over which team lands at No. 2 in this week\u2019s US LBM Coaches Poll<\/a> and Tuesday\u2019s playoff rankings.<\/p>\n Vanderbilt<\/p>\n The No. 16 Commodores\u2019 playoff hopes are still alive after they pulled out a 45-38 overtime win against suddenly frisky Auburn<\/a>, which clearly experienced some sort of addition by subtraction with the firing of Hugh Freeze. Beating the Tigers meant weathering 442 yards of offense and four scores by quarterback Ashton Daniels, overcoming a 17-3 deficit in the first half and bouncing back from the heartbreak of a failed fourth-down attempt late in regulation when Vanderbilt could\u2019ve tried a 42-yard field goal. This isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019ve written this sentence this season: Diego Pavia was the hero, delivering 377 passing yards on 11.2 yards per attempt, running for a team-high 112 yards and accounting for four touchdowns, including the game winner in overtime.<\/p>\n Texas Tech<\/p>\n No. 8 Texas Tech\u2019s 29-7 win against No. 7 Brigham Young<\/a> confirms the Red Raiders<\/a>\u2019 place as the unquestioned team to beat in the Big 12. With games against Central Florida and West Virginia to end November and head-to-head tiebreakers against the BYU and Houston in hand, Tech steps into the driver\u2019s seat for the conference championship game looking to make some history \u2013 the program hasn\u2019t won an outright league crown since taking the defunct Border Conference in 1955. The Red Raiders were plus-three in turnover margin, dominated the line of scrimmage and held BYU to only 3.9 yards per play, highlighting the program\u2019s immense edge in talent compared to the rest of the conference.<\/p>\n Fernando Mendoza tossed a touchdown pass with 36 seconds left and No. 2 Indiana escaped Penn State<\/a> with a 27-24 win, essentially locking down an appearance in the Big Ten championship game. This is just the Hoosiers\u2019 second single-digit win of the year, joining the earlier win against the Ducks, and comes on the heels of wins against Maryland and UCLA by a combined 95 points. Don\u2019t read too much into the late comeback and narrower-than-expected win: Indiana might be a powerhouse \u2013 that\u2019s simply inarguable at this point \u2013 but even powerhouse teams need to get lucky once or twice to post an unbeaten regular season in the current landscape of college football.<\/p>\n Wisconsin<\/p>\n Wisconsin scored a touchdown in a home game for the first time since Sept. 20 and won a Big Ten game for the first time in over a year in beating Washington 13-10. That\u2019s just the start: Sean West was the Badgers\u2019 leading passer, and Sean West had 24 yards, and Sean West is also the punter. Starting quarterback Danny O\u2019Neil left the game due to injury in the first quarter and was replaced by freshman Carter Smith, who had 3 completions in 12 attempts for 8 yards with 47 rushing yards in his debut. But the defense turned in a vintage performance by holding the Huskies to 251 yards with two takeaways. The win comes after athletics director Chris McIntosh announced that coach Luke Fickell would be returning for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n North Carolina<\/p>\n North Carolina held on for dear life and beat Stanford 20-15 for a second win in a row, something Bill Belichick hadn\u2019t done since the 2022 Patriots took three in a row against Jets, Colts and Jets again. (This still counts even if two wins came against the Jets.) The Tar Heels<\/a> have started to climb closer to bowl eligibility with three rivalry games to close the regular season: Wake Forest, Duke and North Carolina State.<\/p>\n LosersBrigham Young<\/p>\n