{"id":269640,"date":"2025-11-03T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:12:11","slug":"college-football-rankings-kirk-herbstreit-releases-new-top-five-after-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269640\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Rankings: Kirk Herbstreit releases new top-five after Week 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

With November having arrived, we\u2019re on the eve of the initial rankings of the College Football Playoff<\/a>. Kirk Herbstreit has also now released his own top-five again ahead of the debut ratings for the CFP.<\/p>\n

Herbstreit shared that new top-five alongside Joey Galloway, who shared a top-five of his own too<\/a>, on the next episode of \u2018Nonstop\u2019<\/a> on Monday morning. His was identical to that from the AP Poll<\/a> and the Coaches Poll<\/a> on Sunday, but with him knowing that\u2019s not usually how the Selection Committee will have their\u2019s look come the reveal on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my top-five this week. I think that\u2019s what the AP \u2013 I haven\u2019t looked. I\u2019m guessing the AP and the Coaches Poll? That\u2019s kind of more conventional wisdom,\u201d said Herbstreit. \u201cHistorically, the committee\u2019s first rankings like to be different. They like people to talk about their rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is that top-five, with one change made to it this week, by Herbstreit:<\/p>\n

With a 24-point win over Penn State<\/a> on Saturday to open November, Ohio State remained undefeated, and dominant in doing so, at 8-0 (5-0). Herbstreit now fully expects the Buckeyes, who sit atop his own rating, to be right there in the debate for the No. 1 or the No. 2 overall seed, with him having no preference either way, come the release of the committee\u2019s rankings tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Indiana is one or Ohio State is one, it doesn\u2019t bother me,\u201d said Herbstreit.<\/p>\n

\"Indiana(Tommy Gilligan | Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

Very similarly in record and dominance, Indiana came in at second in this ranking for Herbstreit, as the Hoosiers are 9-0 (6-0) with a 55-10 win over<\/a> Maryland<\/a> to push their average margin of victory to 35.7 points. He now wouldn\u2019t be surprised if that makes a difference in IU being No. 1 for the CFP come Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t shock me if Indiana (is No. 1), maybe, because they\u2019ve been so dominant every week,\u201d Herbstreit said. \u201cMight be one. I don\u2019t \u2013 but, me personally? It doesn\u2019t bother me one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas A&M, coming off a bye week, also remains undefeated at 8-0 (5-0) as the last unbeaten team in the SEC. With that, Herbstreit wonders if, just based on resum\u00e9 with wins at Notre Dame<\/a> and five wins in the SEC, including their last game at LSU<\/a>, the Aggies could make a case to be atop those first rankings by the Selection Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cA&M has some great wins,\u201d said Herbstreit. \u201cProbably, if you\u2019re just going on resum\u00e9? You could easily see them putting A&M at one.<\/p>\n

Alabama was also on a bye this past week. However, with a loss by the team previously ranked above them, Herbstreit moved the Crimson Tide up a spot to No. 4<\/p>\n

After that opening loss in Tallahassee, \u2018Bama has won seven straight to be at 7-1 (5-0), including those five consecutive in conference play \u2013 four straight against ranked foes before surviving their last time out against South Carolina<\/a>. That has them right in contention to be in the SEC Championship and, even if not by the end of this month, to still be in the CFP.<\/p>\n

\"Georgia(Corey Perrine | Florida Times-Union | USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

Herbstreit replaced one team for another from the Peach State. That\u2019s with Georgia Tech<\/a> losing their first game of the season to NC State<\/a> in Raleigh, as Georgia moved into the top-five with a 24-20 win over<\/a> Florida<\/a> in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

With that, the Bulldogs have just continued to battle their way<\/a> to win after win, with five of their six conference games having been decided by ten or less and them having a record in league play of 5-1. That competitive edge has the \u2018Dawgs right where they\u2019ve often been, which is contention coming into the last month of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With November having arrived, we\u2019re on the eve of the initial rankings of the College Football Playoff. Kirk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-269640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}