Newsweek College Football Rankings, Heisman And Cfp-week Predictions 15

One of the best games of last weekend was put together at the last minute with BYU traveling to face the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. Both teams entered the contest at 9-0, and ‘College GameDay’ was there. The game lived up to the short-notice, high-profile billing, and the Chanticleers won, 22-17.

Coastal Carolina moved up to No. 12 in this week’s Newsweek Top 20, and BYU slipped to No. 15. Coastal Carolina trails only Cincinnati for the best-ranked team in the Group of Five conferences. The top team from the Group of Five gets an invitation to play in one of the New Year’s Six bowl games. Cincinnati travels to play a tough Tulsa squad this weekend.

The top six teams won again on Saturday, all of them looked very impressive and all of them did it on the road except Notre Dame. Alabama crushed LSU, 55-17, and Notre Dame manhandled Syracuse, 45-21. Clemson stomped Virginia Tech (45-10), Ohio State beat Michigan State (52-12), Texas A&M beat Auburn (31-20) and Florida beat Tennessee (31-19).

Four teams lost and fell out of the top 20, and four new teams entered. The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns enter the rankings at No. 17, followed by No. 18 Tulsa, No. 19 Texas and No. 20 North Carolina.

9-0

Sat. at Arkansas

2

Notre Dame

10-0

Dec. 19 vs #4 Clemson

3

Ohio State

5-0

Sat. vs Michigan

4

Clemson

9-1

Dec. 19 vs #2 Notre Dame

5

Texas A&M

7-1

Sat. vs Ole Miss

6

Florida

8-1

Sat. vs LSU

7

Cincinnati

8-0

Sat. at No. 18 Tulsa

8

Iowa State

8-2

Dec. 19 vs #11 Oklahoma

9

Indiana

6-1

Sat. vs Purdue

10

Miami (Fla.)

8-1

Sat. vs No. 20 North Carolina

11

Oklahoma

7-2

Dec. 19 vs #8 Iowa State

12

Coastal Carolina

10-0

Sat. at Troy

13

Georgia

6-2

Sat. at Missouri

14

USC

3-0

Dec. 6 vs Wasington State

15

BYU

9-1

Sat. vs San Diego State

16

Northwestern

5-1

Sat. vs Illinois

17

Louisiana

9-1

Dec. 19 at #12 Coastal Carolina

18

Tulsa

6-1

Sat. vs #7 Cincinnati

19

Texas

6-3

Sat. at Kansas

20

North Carolina

7-3

Sat. at No. 10 Miami

Dropped Out: No. 17 Marshall, No. 18 Oklahoma State, No. 19 Oregon, No. 20 Wisconsin

Heisman Frontrunners
Here are the Newsweek Heisman rankings after Week 14 of the season.

1. Kyle Trask, QB, Florida
2. Mac Jones, QB, Alabama
3. DaVonta Smith, WR, Alabama
4. Trevor Lawrence, QB, Clemson
5. Justin Fields, QB, Ohio State
6. Kyle Pitts, TE, Florida
7. Najee Harris, RB, Alabama
8. Zach Wilson, QB, BYU

College Football Playoff Prediction

1. Alabama
2. Notre Dame
3. Ohio State
4. Clemson

Games to Watch This Week (Times ET)
All games subject to cancel or postpone, and games could change during the week

Friday, December 11
Arizona State at Arizona
Utah at Colorado
Nevada at San Jose State

Saturday, December 12
LSU at Florida
Cincinnati at Tulsa
Oklahoma at West Virginia
Purdue at Indiana
Illinois at Northwestern
Wisconsin at Iowa
USC at UCLA
Michigan State at Penn State
Georgia at Missouri
Ole Miss at Texas A&M
Tennessee at Vanderbilt
Alabama at Arkansas
Michigan at Ohio State
Akron at Buffalo
Coastal Carolina at Troy
North Carolina at Miami
Navy at Army
Oklahoma State at Baylor
Louisiana Tech at TCU
Virginia at Virginia Tech
San Diego State at BYU