if a certain replay protocol had been followed<\/a>. So the Broncos sit ahead of Oklahoma, for now.<\/p>\nThis section is where the impact of the moves at the end of the top 25 creates a bunch of teams moving \u201cdown\u201d for losses. Again, don\u2019t worry about it too much. Utah\u2019s blowout of Arkansas and Missouri\u2019s win at Kansas were impressive performances that put both teams on the verge of the top 25.<\/p>\n
Iowa drops out of the top 25 for needing a last-second field goal to secure a comeback win against Iowa State. Duke\u2019s 31-27 win against Illinois moves the Blue Devils up to No. 39, and Wake Forest\u2019s double-overtime win at Purdue inches the Demon Deacons up to No. 50.<\/p>\n
North Texas\u2019 44-6 win against UNLV was stunning. Maybe new coach Neal Brown is rebuilding the Mean Green quicker than expected after Eric Morris led a mass exodus to Stillwater. Florida Atlantic held off Navy 38-30 to beat a Midshipmen team in my preseason top 25, launching the Owls up. Elsewhere in the American, South Florida\u2019s late touchdown to beat Army inches the Bulls upward.<\/p>\n
Iowa State moves up for an unexpectedly strong effort at Iowa, even though it took the loss in its first FBS game of the season. The same goes for Oregon State, which is 0-2 but up for battling Houston and Texas Tech into the fourth quarter. The Beavers look better than projected, so there\u2019s no need to anchor them to preseason rankings.<\/p>\n
Appalachian State also slides up after beating East Carolina, and Ohio leapfrogs Jacksonville State for beating the Gamecocks in four overtimes.<\/p>\n
Georgia State beat Kennesaw State to end a 12-game losing streak to FBS opponents and move to 2-0. Liberty stumbles down after escaping 24-23 against a winless FCS Gardner-Webb team that has an interim head coach. Central Michigan similarly needed a fourth-quarter comeback to survive FCS Colgate and slips to No. 113 as a result.<\/p>\n
Sam Houston is 0-2, but with one-score losses to Troy and Tulsa, the Bearkats look improved. Utah State followed up a two-score loss to FCS Idaho State with a narrow 16-14 loss at Washington, making the Aggies extremely difficult to place, but they rise up a few spots.<\/p>\n
Rutgers also climbs a spot after hitting an all-time low for a Power 4 team in these rankings last week. That\u2019s in part because of the Scarlet Knights’ competitive loss at Boston College, but they also got help from a blowout loss by Sacramento State (to Fresno State) and Northern Illinois\u2019 loss to recent FCS national runner-up Illinois State, which led 21-0 at one point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks into the college football season, it feels like we know nothing. Ain\u2019t it great? What do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1775,8944,1769,1771,1607,8922,7091,8926,8940,399,8942,3343,13424,6815,13427,13418,1774,13420,8938,13421,8924,7186,1777,7560,13428,13423,1770,398,396,397,12695,8943,7027,13425,1776,6344,1232,5694,8939,13426,13422,5687,8928,99,8941,7559,8921,5690,13419,8927,8923,8925,1773,1772,3679,13417,7561],"class_list":["post-848843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-baylor-bears","tag-boston-college-eagles","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-college-football","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-east-carolina-pirates","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-football","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-houston-cougars","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-maryland-terrapins","tag-memphis-tigers","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-middle-tennessee-blue-raider","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-navy-midshipmen","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-north-carolina-state-wolfpack","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-sports","tag-syracuse-orange","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-temple-owls","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tulane-green-wave","tag-tulsa-golden-hurricane","tag-ucf-knights","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848843","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=848843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}