Michigan State drops to No. 7 in latest College Football Playoff Top-25 rankings

The previously unbeaten Michigan State Spartans suffered a tough upset at unranked Purdue this past Saturday and had already dropped in the AP and Coaches polls released on Sunday as a result. Now the second College Football Playoff Committee top-25 ranking has been released and dropped the Spartans from the initial No. 3 ranking released last week as well.

In the second College Football Playoff Top-25 rankings of the 2021 season, Michigan State came in ranked at No. 7. The Spartans fell behind Oregon, Ohio State, Cincinnati and confusingly behind Michigan despite a head-to-head win just a week prior and a loss to Purdue, which is now a ranked program (No, 19). Somehow a win against Ohio State and then a loss to Stanford shortly thereafter is irrelevant to the CFP Committee members in the case of Oregon, for example. Then again, nobody should try and make sense of Gary Barta in this writer’s personal opinion.

Full rankings (Big Ten teams in bold)

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Oregon
4. Ohio State
5. Cincinnati
6. Michigan
7. Michigan State
8. Oklahoma
9. Notre Dame
10. Oklahoma State
11. Texas A&M
12. Wake Forest
13. Baylor
14. BYU
15. Ole Miss
16. North Carolina State
17. Auburn
18. Wisconsin Badgers
19. Purdue Boilermakers
20. Iowa Hawkeyes
21. Pittsburgh
22. San Diego Sate
23. UTSA
24. Utah
25. Arkansas

There are again six Big Ten teams included in this week’s rankings, with Purdue flipping out with Minnesota this week following one’s win and the other’s loss.