Arkansas looked good in all facets of their 20-10 win over the Aggies, and Arkansas soars 10 spots into the No. 6 spot of this latest Newsweek college football top 20.
Texas A&M fell 15 spots to No. 20.
Arkansas will have another tough task this week with a trip to face Georgia at noon in Athens. Georgia remains at No. 2 after a 62-0 drubbing of Vanderbilt.
Alabama holds the top spot again after its 63-14 win over Southern Miss. Oregon remains at No. 3, followed by Iowa and Penn State, who also improved to 4-0.
After Arkansas, Oklahoma holds the No. 7 spot, followed by Cincinnati, Notre Dame and Florida.
Ole Miss was idle last week, but they moved up one spot to No. 11 this week—thanks to Michigan State dropping (despite a win) and Clemson falling completely out of the rankings after its second loss. Ole Miss travels to play No. 1 Alabama this week in a highly-anticipated showdown.
N.C. State enters the rankings this week after knocking off Clemson, 27-21, in double overtime.
Teams that just missed out on the rankings are Baylor, Texas, North Carolina and Boston College.
Here are the rankings for for Week 5 — September 26, 2021
Dropped Out: No. 10 Clemson
Here are the top games to watch this week: Virginia at Miami (Thursday) Iowa at Maryland (Friday) Arkansas at Georgia Cincinnati at Notre Dame Texas at TCU Oklahoma at Kansas State Oregon at Stanford Ole Miss at Alabama Indiana at Penn State Boston College at Clemson Auburn at LSU Arizona State at UCLA Fresno State at Hawai’i
