
AP College Football Poll 2015: Top 25 Rankings for Week 10
After weeks of craziness near the top of the Associated Press poll, a state of inertia has washed over the latest college football rankings.
All eight remaining Power Five unbeatens kept their loss columns clean, so not all that much changed from Week 9 to Week 10. Ohio State retained its tenuous grip on the No. 1 spot by earning 39 first-place votes and is followed by Baylor for the fourth straight week. Clemson, LSU and TCU round out the Top Five.
Here is a look at the entire Top 25:
With the Buckeyes and Bears idle, the focus was intently on the teams behind them. LSU was also off, but Clemson and TCU were in action against unranked opponents. Only the Horned Frogs looked their best. Trevone Boykin continued his Heisman Trophy-worthy campaign with four total touchdowns in TCU's 40-10 thrashing of West Virginia on Thursday. It's the seventh straight game the Frogs have topped 40 points after their ugly 23-17 win over Minnesota in Week 1.
ESPN Stats & Info provided context for TCU's recent success:
Clemson, meanwhile, had a bit more trouble. The Tigers defense nearly squandered a sensational performance by Deshaun Watson with a number of breakdowns in a 56-41 win over North Carolina State. The Clemson quarterback accounted for six touchdowns, including five through the air, as he continued his breakout sophomore season. Watson has thrown for at least one score and rushed for at least one score in each of the last three games.
Stewart Mandel of Fox Sports commented on his performance against the Wolfpack:
Oklahoma State and Iowa, the two unbeatens no one seems to believe in, continued their respective runs over the weekend. The Cowboys spotted Texas Tech 17 points and trailed 38-28 at halftime before turning up their offensive efficiency in the second half en route to a 70-53 win. James Washington caught touchdown passes of 75 and 73 yards in the fourth quarter from J.W. Walsh, who has thrown for nine touchdowns on 23 attempts this season.
Oklahoma State accounted for 478 passing yards with four players throwing the ball. Walsh also added eight rushes for 80 yards as he continues to shine in one of the country's most interesting quarterback situations.
"I thought [offensive coordinator] Mike [Yurcich] and the staff did a great job of staying with our game plan and not extending ourselves," Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy said, per the Sports Xchange (via the Times Record). "We had to stay balanced, but we had to slowly but surely work ourselves back into the game."
The next shoe will drop for either TCU or Oklahoma State on Saturday, when the Frogs travel to Stillwater for the weekend's lone battle of unbeatens.
Iowa moved to 4-0 in the Big Ten with a 31-15 win over Maryland. The Hawkeyes only ran for 110 yards and passed for 183, but they forced four turnovers and led 21-0 at halftime on three rushing touchdowns by three different players. In the fourth quarter, Desmond King intercepted a pass and returned it 88 yards for a touchdown.
Moving into the poll this week are No. 21 North Carolina and No. 25 Texas A&M.
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