NCAA Football Rankings 2014: Full List of Week 11 College Standings and Polls
Feel free to soak in and digest the latest batch of NCAA football rankings as soon as possible, because they will go poof in a matter of days.
Such is life in this season which ends with the inaugural College Football Playoff. No team is immune to an upset on a week-to-week basis, not with an ever-spreading parity and a heightened importance to each game.
The Week 11 polls predictably saw some major movement thanks to a number of eyebrow-raising results, so kudos once again to the pollsters tasked with staying on the ball in a timely manner.
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Below is a look at the rankings fresh out of the oven, with a breakdown of the biggest movers after the jump.
Week 11 College Football Top 25 Rankings
| 1 | Mississippi State | Mississippi State Bulldogs | Mississippi State Bulldogs |
| 2 | Florida State | Florida State Seminoles | Florida State Seminoles |
| 3 | Auburn | Auburn Tigers | Auburn Tigers |
| 4 | Alabama | Alabama Crimson Tide | Oregon Ducks |
| 5 | Oregon | Oregon Ducks | Alabama Crimson Tide |
| 6 | TCU | Michigan State Spartans | Michigan State Spartans |
| 7 | Michigan State | TCU Horned Frogs | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| 8 | Notre Dame | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | TCU Horned Frogs |
| 9 | Kansas State | Kansas State Wildcats | Kansas State Wildcats |
| 10 | Baylor | Baylor Bears | Baylor Bears |
| 11 | Arizona State | Ohio State Buckeyes | Ole Miss Rebels |
| 12 | Ole Miss | Arizona State Sun Devils | Arizona State Sun Devils |
| 13 | Ohio State | Ole Miss Rebels | Ohio State Buckeyes |
| 14 | LSU | Nebraska Cornhuskers | Nebraska Cornhuskers |
| 15 | Nebraska | LSU Tigers | LSU Tigers |
| 16 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma Sonners | Oklahoma Sonners |
| 17 | Georgia | Georgia Bulldogs | Georgia Bulldogs |
| 18 | UCLA | UCLA Bruins | UCLA Bruins |
| 19 | Clemson | Clemson Tigers | Clemson Tigers |
| 20 | Utah | Duke Blue Devils | Duke Blue Devils |
| 21 | Arizona | Arizona Wildcats | Utah Utes |
| 22 | Duke | Utah Utes | Arizona Wildcats |
| 23 | Marshall | Marshall Thundering Herd | Marshall Thundering Herd |
| 24 | West Virginia | Wisconsin Badgers | West Virginia Mountaineers |
| 25 | Wisconsin | West Virginia Mountaineers | Colorado State Rams |
AP Poll can be viewed at CollegeFootball.AP.org.
Amway Poll can be viewed at USAToday.com.
B/R Poll can be viewed at BleacherReport.com.
Analyzing Top Risers and Fallers
Riser: UCLA
Brett Hundley and the UCLA Bruins have been one difficult program to figure out this season.
The team started out on shaky footing, not exactly blowing out Virginia, Memphis or Texas. No worries, though, as the team blew away former No. 15 Arizona State 62-27—then lost two in a row, including one game to unranked Utah.
Of course, the team then took down unranked California and Colorado by a combined five points.
Obviously none of this was enough to inspire loads of confidence from pollsters, but they did think enough of last week's 17-7 upset of former No. 12 Arizona to make the Bruins one of the week's highest risers.
In that contest, Hundley threw for 189 yards and a score and added another 131 yards on the ground, part of the Bruins' 271 yards and a score in that category. The Bruins defense showed up, too, limiting a previously strong Wildcats rushing attack to just 80 yards on a 2.6-per-carry average.
"Today was the first game that I felt defensively like we did what we were supposed to do on every play," UCLA coach Jim Mora said, per The Associated Press (h/t ESPN.com). "Don't pop a gap. Just do your job. Trust your teammate. We did that. You saw the result. ... It was a big win for us, and it keeps us alive, and that's what we're after."
Ryan Kartje of the Orange County Register reveals why Hundley finally looks like the Heisman contender most thought he should be:
So is this a sign of a major return to form for the Bruins? Perhaps, but a brutal schedule with Washington, USC and Stanford to close the season will reveal all. Hundley's play will need to hover at its current level, and a defense that ranks 77th in the nation with an average of 27.7 points per game allowed will need to remain strong for the Bruins to keep their momentum.
For now, Hundley and Co. can just bask in a sudden rise in the court of public opinion.
Faller: Georgia
Simply put, the Georgia Bulldogs did not show up in a historic-rivalry showdown, got punched in the mouth repeatedly and opted to stay down on the mat rather than get up and fight.
“They lined up and gave us a good ole butt-whipping," defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt said, per ESPN.com's Jeff Barlis. "They run the power and the zone, things you see every day in practice."
The Florida Gators used the Bulldogs for practice all right, rushing for a whopping 418 yards and five touchdowns.
Quarterback Treon Harris attempted six passes.
The sad part is that the Bulldogs actually got a somewhat-strong performance out of quarterback Hutson Mason, who threw for 319 yards and a score. Nick Chubb was once again a force on the ground in place of the absent Todd Gurley, rushing for 156 yards and a score on a 7.4 average.
Yet none of that really matters when the defense collapses in on itself in such a manner.
It is hard to understand how this is the same Georgia team that took down a ranked Clemson squad to start the season, or the one that shut out Missouri. Or even the same one that kept the elite Arkansas rushing attack in check back in mid-October.
Regardless, the Bulldogs have a simple go of it in three of their remaining four games this season, the lone exception being when Auburn comes to town. Should the Bulldogs play as they did last weekend, that one will be a massacre.
For the time being, the SEC East belongs to Missouri. If Mason and his team do not put the knee-slapper behind them in a hurry, the season will be lost.
Stats and information via ESPN.com unless otherwise specified.
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