On the heels of the announcement that the College Football Playoff will expand to 24 teams starting next year, during the 2027 season, the 2026 rankings came out for another week.
There was a good amount of movement overall in the full rankings, which can be seen here:
However, looking a bit closer to home, the movement was much more minuscule. For the second week in a row, Boise State was the only team from
the Pac-12/Mountain West side of things, or even in the entire Group of 6. They moved up one spot, to 24th.
While they should still be a spot or two higher, the movement of only one spot is less surprising. The Broncos beat up on a bad Colorado State team, using their prolific offense to dominate the terrible defense of the Rams. However, Boise State also continues to show their flaws with their defense, so it’s not a shock they didn’t move up much, although they did take steps forward in the Coaches and AP polls.
New Mexico, who also destroyed a bad team (Nevada), is shut out of the CFP Rankings for the second week in a row, and we are not sure how close they are to the top 25.
