Ohio State Remains At No. 7 In USA TODAY Coaches Poll After Conference Championships

The Buckeyes are still the highest-ranked, non-playoff team in the Big Ten.

While Ohio State moved up one spot to No. 6 in the final College Football Playoff rankings of the season, the Buckeyes stood pat at No. 7 in the latest USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll.

After cruising past Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, @AlabamaFTBL seizes the top spot in the final USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll before bowl season begins.

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Michigan, which punched its ticket to the four-team playoff earlier today, sits at No. 2, while Iowa fell to No. 16 after losing to the Wolverine in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night. Michigan State is the only other team in the conference ranked in this week’s poll, coming in at No. 11.

That said, the full USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll is as follows, with first-place votes in parenthesis:

1. Alabama (54)
2. Michigan (5)
3. Georgia
4. Cincinnati
5. Notre Dame
6. Baylor
7. Ohio State
8. Ole Miss
9. Oklahoma State
10. Michigan State
11. Utah
12. Pittsburgh
13. Oklahoma
14. BYU
15. Oregon
16. Iowa
17. Louisiana-Lafayette
18. N.C. State
19. Wake Forest
20. Kentucky
21. Houston
22. Clemson
23. Texas A&M
24. Arkansas
25. UTSA

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