Oklahoma football: Sooners moving back up in rankings, at No. 13/14 in Coaches, AP poll
By Chip Rouse
Oklahoma football will begin Week 12 of the college football season ranked 13th in the Coaches Poll and 14th in the Associated Press weekly rankings.
After tumbling 11 spots the past couple of weeks, from No. 6 all the way down to No. 17 last week (which is also where the Sooners sat in week two of the College Football Playoff rankings) after suffering back-to-back losses at Kansas and Oklahoma State, Oklahoma is on the way back up following a 59-20 blowout of West Virginia on Saturday.
The Sooners are back to being the second highest of the Big 12 teams ranked in the nation’s top-25 behind No. 7 Texas.
Just one week ago, both Oklahoma State and Kansas had jumped over Oklahoma in the AP poll. Both teams lost this weekend. Kansas dropped out of the top 25 in both the AP and the Coaches Poll after losing at home to Texas Tech, while Oklahoma State, a 45-3 blowout victim of UCF, dropped to No. 24 in the AP Top 25 and No. 25 in the Coaches Poll.
Kansas State returned to the top 25 this week, at No. 24 in the Coaches Poll, after burying Baylor 59-25 over the weekend.
The top eight teams in both national polls remain unchanged this week. Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State and Florida State remain one through four, followed in order by Washington, Oregon, Texas and Alabama.
The SEC leads all of the Power Five conferences with six teams ranked in the top 25. The Pac-12 has five and the Big 12 is next with four ranked teams this week.