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Oklahoma football: No change for OU in Week 2 CFP rankings

By Chip Rouse

IRVING, TX - OCTOBER 16: A detail view of the College Football Playoff logo shown during a press conference on October 16, 2013 in Irving, Texas. Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University professor and former United States Secretary of State, was chosen to serve as one of the 13 members that will select four teams to compete in the first playoff at the end of the 2014 season. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
IRVING, TX - OCTOBER 16: A detail view of the College Football Playoff logo shown during a press conference on October 16, 2013 in Irving, Texas. Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University professor and former United States Secretary of State, was chosen to serve as one of the 13 members that will select four teams to compete in the first playoff at the end of the 2014 season. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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Oklahoma football was idle last weekend and largely because of that there was no change in the Sooners No. 8 College Football Playoff ranking.

That will change one way or the other a week from now, however, as 9-0 OU, one of just four remaining unbeaten teams in college football, goes head to head on the road against No. 13 Baylor on Saturday. Other than Texas, Baylor (7-2, 4-2) will be just the Sooners’ second ranked opponent this season.

You can expect the winner of the Oklahoma-Baylor contest to advance upward in the CFP rankings. OU will two additional chances to further its CFP resume when it hosts Iowa State on Nov. 20, followed by a marquee Bedlam matchup at Oklahoma State, the No. 10 team this week in the CFP rankings.

So the Sooners still have everything out in front of them and the opportunity to make or break their chances to make it into college football’s final four, all in the course of the next four weeks. For that reason, there really isn’t any need for concern over Oklahoma’s current placement in the rankings

There will be plenty of chaos throughout the CFP Top 25 rankings in the four weeks leading up to Selection Sunday on Dec. 5, when the final rankings will be released. OU’s main goal going forward is to be the beneficiary of the chaos and not a victim of it.

The best Oklahoma could have hoped for in Week 2 of the CFP rankings was to move up one spot, from 8th to 7th, courtesy of No. 3 Michigan State’s loss last weekend to previously unranked Purdue. Michigan State only dropped to No. 7, however, which kept the Sooners at No. 8 a second straight week.

Most of the movement this week was in the second half of the top-25 ranks. There was very little change in the top 10.

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