Texas Tech crept toward the top five and Miami took advantage of losses by other ACC contenders to move from No. 18 to No. 15 in the second College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night.
The top five teams in the rankings were unchanged, with Ohio State No. 1 followed by Indiana, Texas A&M, Alabama and Georgia.
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Texas Tech moved up two spots to No. 6 after routing BYU in a top-10 matchup in Lubbock. The Big 12 put only one team — conference champion Arizona State — in the 12-team field last year, the fewest among the Power 4 leagues. The Red Raiders are now in a position where they might not need to win the conference and could make the CFP as an at-large selection. Texas Tech could also challenge the Big Ten and SEC schools ahead of it for a first-round bye if it keeps winning; it knocked Ole Miss down one spot from last week.
“Probably the longest discussion we had in the room was Texas Tech and Ole Miss,” selection committee chairman Mack Rhoades told
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