Utah Soars Up Final College Football Playoff Rankings
Dec 5, 2021, 12:52 PM | Updated: 12:53 pm
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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SALT LAKE CITY – The final College Football Playoff rankings are out and like the AP and Coaches poll, Utah catapulted over BYU.
Pac-12 Champion Utes are No. 11 in the final rankings after defeating Oregon in the league championship game. That was a huge climb as Utah jumped six spots.
Take a look at the final #CFBPlayoff Top 25 rankings for the 2021 regular season.
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BYU dropped from No. 12 to No. 13 in the rankings. That leaves BYU outside of being in the pool for the New Year’s Six.
Utah will face the Ohio State Buckeyes in the 2022 Rose Bowl, while BYU is expected to play in the Independence Bowl.
The playoff committee doesn’t release a postseason College Football Playoff rankings poll. So this is the final Top 25 of the 2021 season.
Final College Football Playoff Top 25
1. Alabama (12-1)
2. Michigan (12-1)
3. Georgia (12-1)
4. Cincinnati (13-0)
5. Notre Dame (11-1)
6. Ohio State (10-2)
7. Baylor
8. Ole Miss
9. Oklahoma State
10. Michigan State
11. Utah
12. Pitt
13. BYU (10-2)
14. Oregon (10-3)
15. Iowa (10-3)
16. Oklahoma (10-2)
17. Wake Forest (10-3)
18. NC State (9-3)
19. Clemson (9-3)
20. Houston (11-2)
21. Arkansas (8-4)
22. Kentucky (9-3)
23. Louisiana (12-1)
24. San Diego State (11-2)
25. Texas A&M (8-4)
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for sports.ksl.com and host of the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports Saturday (Saturday from 12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Follow him on Twitter: @Mitch_Harper.
