Still undefeated with the best wins in the country. Offense is off to a sluggish start but defense is elite and defense, proverbially, travels and wins championships.

Idle, no movement

A world where you get on the Texans aint too shabby?

Undefeated P4

Everyone around them looks good - better than them even - but can't move them off #1 resume-wise when they beat who would otherwise be my #1

I’m not ready to move them out of first place, but I nearly pushed Alabama all the way up. That’ll get sorted next week with Alabama-Georgia. I think texas can retain this spot if Georgia wins a tight one and texas makes OU look like an FCS squad. If the offense continues looking good but suspect I may need to reevaluate t.u. and OSU next week.

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Predicted Record: 12-0

Undefeated with elite wins over Ohio State and at Tennessee.

Still an unsteady #1 but I can't really say anything has changed since last between them and Georgia. The spot most likely gets snatched this week though

Ohio State win is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. unless the Alabama Georgia game ends up being a CyHawk style sicko fest, the winner of that game likely replaces the Longhorns at the top.

(4-0) (no change)
Bye
Next Week: vs Oklahoma (2-2) (in Dallas)
Projected Bowl: Cotton Bowl vs Texas Tech/Utah

LW: 1 | Tier 1 | bye

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Texas is undefeated with nice wins over Ohio State (4-1, beat Iowa) and Tennessee (4-1, beat Auburn)

+0

The longhorns still have the top defense in college football, and move up as everyone else came down to earth this week.

97.37 | -1

Texas was two last week and with the bye this week not much reason to change. Wins against Ohio State and Tennessee help a lot as those teams both notched wins this weekend.

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{-} [4-0] (BYE)
2 P4 Wins

89.170

0.9561

Power 9 / Resume 2

Overall +30.4; offense +10.4 (18th), defense -20.1 (1st)

876.75 (-2)

2132.21 (0)

0.85656

DNP this week. The Ohio State win looks better, the Tennessee win maybe looks a little worse (though I already didn't make much of it). It's a wash, more or less.

-6, 0.880

Bye

Holding serve

4-0, bye week, still the best SoR in the country in my opinion

E - on bye, Ohio State win still keeps them here

4-0

W (4-0) A +3 vs Tennessee (15)
W (3-0) H +24 vs UTSA (unranked)
W (2-0) H +1 vs Ohio State (1)
W (1-0) H +52 vs Texas State (unranked)

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Best overall win so far

Tier 1.

(2)

(+5) GS .959, TS 43.

(66.38, -2) On BYE this week. Red River is next for the Longhorns, which should be an easy win for Texas but you never know...

It's the only team with a head-to-head win over a top-6 team: #6 Ohio State, 24–23. Add the win at #22 Tennessee and Texas has 24 rule wins. The score model sees an elite defense (3rd) but an average offense (27th), so it's an underdog to Utah in simulation (46%). The real Ohio State win keeps it at #4. Texas had a bye.

T1ˢᵗ W/L, T1ˢᵗ Predicted Wins, 4ᵗʰ Team Strength, 13ᵗʰ Quality of Wins

SP+: 8, SP+ Resume: 2

net elo off def ridge fei conf
+17.4 +17.4 33.5 16.1 +20.8 +13.9 SEC