Week 11 College Football Rankings: Brett McMurphy’s AP Top 25 Poll Ballot vs. Our Betting Power Ratings

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Nov 07, 2021, 10:00 AM EST

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Georgia remains on top of my Associated Press Top 25 ballot.

While the majority of the Top 10 either struggled or lost on Saturday, the Bulldogs had no such issues.

Alabama remains at No. 2 on my ballot, while Michigan State (previously No. 3) and Wake Forest (previously No. 9) dropped out of my Top 10 after losing on Saturday.

Rounding out my Top 10 after Georgia and Alabama is No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Cincinnati, No. 5 Oregon, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 8 Oklahoma State, No. 9 Michigan and No. 10 Texas A&M.

Action Network senior writer Collin Wilson’s updated college football betting power ratings continue to agree with my top two teams: Georgia and Alabama.

Here’s my updated AP ballot compared with Wilson’s updated power ratings entering Week 11 of the college football season.

Updated 2021 College Football Betting Power Ratings

Brett McMurphy's AP Top 25 Ballot Entering Week 11

AP denotes Brett McMurphy's Associated Press Top 25 ballot.
PR denotes Collin Wilson's College Football Betting Power Ratings.

1

Georgia

1

2

Alabama

2

3

Oklahoma

4

Cincinnati

15

5

Oregon

6

Ohio State

3

7

Notre Dame

11

8

Oklahoma State

15

9

Michigan

7

10

Texas A&M

5

Seven of my top 10 teams also are rated by Collin in his top 10. The only teams in my top 10 that are rated outside Collin’s top 10 are:

Team	My Rating	Collin's Rating
Cincinnati	No. 4	Tied-15
Notre Dame	No. 7	Tied-11
Oklahoma State	No. 8	Tied-15

11

Ole Miss

11

12

Michigan State

29

13

Wake Forest

19

14

Auburn

7

15

BYU

48

16

UTSA

62

17

Houston

50

18

Arkansas

19

Iowa

32

20

Kentucky

26

There are only two teams that Collin and I both ranked between Nos. 11 and 20: Ole Miss and Arkansas.

There is little agreement for the remaining teams I ranked between Nos. 11 and 20. The biggest differences were BYU, UTSA and Houston, which I respectively ranked Nos. 15-17. Collin rated the three schools much lower: BYU (48), UTSA (62) and Houston (50).

21

NC State

19

22

Coastal Carolina

22

23

Baylor

22

24

Purdue

44

25

Wisconsin

11

Collin and I agreed on three teams between Nos. 21 and 25 — NC State, Coastal Carolina and Baylor. Collin also had seven teams rated in his top 25 that I did not include on my Top 25 ballot. Collin’s rankings were:

Penn State (tied-7th)
Utah (tied-7th)
Iowa State (tied-11th)
Pitt (tied-15th)
Arizona State (18th)
North Carolina (tied-22nd)
Tennessee (tied-22nd)

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Brett is "America's College Football Insider" for The Action Network. Brett was nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting, but wasn’t a nominee finalist. A long-time voter in the AP Top 25 poll and for the Heisman Trophy, Brett was named the 2019 Beat Writer of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America. Before joining The Action Network, Brett’s previous stops included ESPN, CBS Sports, the New York Times, Stadium, AOL Fanhouse and the Tampa Tribune.

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