NCAA FBS Rankings: Week 12

We're getting closer to the end of the regular season and the games are starting to get more dramatic and have more purpose. Granted, in reality it's only for a small handful of schools, but when approaching it with a playoff in mind, look at how many games have implications! Every game really does count!

At the lower levels this is an important week too. D-III is on its last week of the regular season, but a good chunk of the field is set in stone (including my North Central Cardinals!) and a lot of teams are fighting for those precious few at large spots. A lot of the big conferences aren't decided yet either with a few weeks to go, and most remaining games are in conference, but there are some interconference battles this week.

So if you want to see where the playoffs stand coming into this week, here's yesterday's post with the seedings. You can view last week's NCSS rankings here.


1. Sun Belt (0.63, 7.25; LW: 2). Troy visits Ole Miss and South Alabama visits Navy.
2. Conference USA (0.00, 7.21; LW: 1). No change.
3. MAC (0.00, 6.46; LW: 3). No change.
4. Mountain West (0.17, 5.58; LW: 4). No change.
5. American Athletic (0.00, 5.00; LW: 5). No change.
6. Big Ten (0.00, 4.25; LW: 6). No change.
7. SEC (0.07, 3.50; LW: 8). Ole Miss hosts Troy.
8. ACC (0.00, 3.50, LW: 7). No change.
9. Pac-12 (0.00, 3.00; LW: 9). No change.
10. Big 12 (0.00, 2.80; LW: 10). No change.

Today's changes were minimal, which made this post a pretty easy one to put together. Games officially start tonight, and there are some big ones this week that will go a long way toward officially deciding who gets to secure a ticket to the playoffs.