Danny Kanell updates top-12 rankings after wild Saturday of college football
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Danny Kanell’s weekly top-12 rankings looks slightly different this Sunday than it did a week ago. That’s what happens after one of the craziest college football Saturdays in some time happens.
It works out that the CBS Sports college football analyst puts a team at the top that didn’t even play in Week 6 — Texas, which had a bye as it gets ready for the Week 7 Red River Rivalry showdown with Oklahoma. The Longhorns are Kanell’s No. 1 team through 6 topsy-turvy weeks in college football.
After the wildest day in college football…here is the brand new #DKtop12 #Earned Trust the resume not the logo
1. Texas
2. Ohio State
3. Miami
4. Oregon
5. Penn State
6. BYU
7. Indiana
8. Iowa State
9. Pitt
10. SMU
11. Georgia
12. Clemson— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) October 6, 2024
Kanell has Ohio State at No. 2 after the Buckeyes took care of Iowa, 35-7. Yes, Ohio State started slow on Saturday, but the Buckeyes got going in the 2nd half and put away the offensively challenged Hawkeyes. At No. 3, Kanell has Miami, which staged a frantic 4th-quarter rally late Saturday night in Berkeley to take down stubborn Cal, 39-38.
Oregon is at No. 4 on Kanell’s list after the Ducks methodically beat Michigan State, 31-10, in a Friday night game in Eugene. Kanell has Penn State at No. 5 after the Nittany Lions stayed unbeaten with an ugly win over UCLA. Then things get a little weird on Kanell’s rankings, as he puts BYU at No. 6 after the 5-0 Cougars had a bye in Week 6.
Kanell has Indiana, one of college football’s early-season darlings, at No. 7, after the Hoosiers took care of Northwestern on the road on Saturday to stay undefeated. Iowa State follows at No. 8 after the Cyclones beat Baylor to stay unbeaten, and then Kanell has Pitt at No. 9 after the Panthers beat North Carolina for its 1st 5-0 start since 1991.
SMU follows at No. 10 after the Mustangs upset Louisville on Saturday to get to 5-1. Then there’s Georgia all the way at No. 11 after the Bulldogs struggled early in an eventual 31-13 win over Auburn in Athens. Clemson completes Kanell’s rankings at No. 12 after the Tigers won easily at Florida State to get to 4-1.
It’s sort of a strange list of teams in Kanell’s rankings, but that makes sense, because so far it’s been a strange college football season through 6 weeks.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
