{"id":314516,"date":"2025-11-26T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:34:12","slug":"winners-and-losers-of-the-week-14-college-football-playoff-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314516\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners and Losers of the Week 14 College Football Playoff Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">If you want to believe in a conspiracy, check the bottom of the ranking. The late positions in the Top 25 tend to justify what happens higher up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Back in Week 11, SEC programs Texas and Oklahoma ranked 11th and 12th ahead of Big 12 school Utah in 13th. Down in the 21-25 range, you would notice Missouri (22nd) and Tennessee (25th) and no Big 12 team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Fast-forward a couple weeks, and the main question was how Miami would fit around the fringe of the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Once again, the &#8216;Canes moved up. This time, it was at the expense of Utah\u2014which needed a late comeback to edge Kansas State in Week 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Arizona State, the best win on Utah&#8217;s profile, is 20th. Meanwhile, SMU\u2014which beat Miami\u2014and Pitt\u2014the Hurricanes&#8217; opponent in Week 14\u2014are 21st and 22nd. That&#8217;s a huge, huge advantage in Miami&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Since the Utes take on 5-6 Kansas compared to Miami at 8-3 Pitt, it&#8217;s safe to say Utah cannot jump the &#8216;Canes in at-large discussions if both win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to believe in a conspiracy, check the bottom of the ranking. The late positions in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-314516","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\/314516","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=314516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}