{"id":3115,"date":"2016-12-07T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:32:05","slug":"jessup-pope-college-football-2016-rankings-after-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2016\/12\/07\/jessup-pope-college-football-2016-rankings-after-week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessup Pope College Football 2016 Rankings: After Week 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

by guest blogger, Dr. Ryan Jessup<\/em><\/p>\n

The bowls are all set as 14 weeks of the NCAA football season have passed with only one game remaining: Army vs. Navy, to be held this upcoming Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\"JP<\/p>\n

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Our model ends with the same team on top that we had all season, Alabama, who ESPN and 538 acknowledge as the best college football team of all time<\/a>.\u00a0 Ohio State and Michigan remain 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>, respectively, but, thanks in part to Wisconsin\u2019s loss and Washington\u2019s crushing of Colorado, the Huskies move into our 4th<\/sup> spot.\u00a0 Clemson is our 8th<\/sup> ranked team, behind Wisconsin, Penn State, and USC, respectively.\u00a0 No. 12 Western Michigan is our highest ranked team from the Group of 5 conferences and Oklahoma is our highest ranked Big 12 team, at #18.\u00a0 As Don Pope pointed out last week, the Big 12 looks more like a Group of 5 conference than a Power 5 conference this year.<\/p>\n

Next week, after the Army-Navy game, we will give our projections for all 40+ bowl games.\u00a0 My grad school alma mater, Indiana, will play in the Foster Farms Bowl.\u00a0 That\u2019s how you know you\u2019ve hit the big time, why mess around with crummy bowls like the Rose or Sugar when you can throw a pigskin sponsored by a chicken<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by guest blogger, Dr. Ryan Jessup The bowls are all set as 14 weeks of the NCAA football season have passed with only one game remaining: Army vs. Navy, to be held this upcoming Saturday.     Our model ends with the same team on top that we had all season, Alabama, who ESPN and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,6633,2750,467,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-coba-faculty","category-current-students","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}