Last week , five teams emerged as the upper crust of college football. That number has dropped to four, after Missouri lost to South Carolina in typical heartbreaking style . The Tigers led 17-0 entering the fourth quarter, but that was before USC starting quarterback Connor Shaw — who had been held out due to injury — was inserted into the game. Shaw led the Gamecocks on a furious comeback to force overtime. After MIZZOU scored a touchdown on the first possession, Shaw threw his third touchdown pass on 4th-and-goal from the 16 yard line. On the second possession, USC was up first and kicked a field goal. Missouri looked to match South Carolina, but a 24-yard field goal bounced off the left upright, giving Tigers fans the gut punch loss of the season.

Elsewhere, most things went according to plan. Johnny Manziel played like a Heisman Trophy winner (25/35, 305 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT), while Teddy Bridgewater (25/29, 344, 3, 0), Bryce Petty (20/32, 430, 3/0), and Jameis Winston (16/26, 292, 3/1) continued their dominant seasons. A couple of embattled schools pulled off impressive wins over conference rivals: Michigan State won 42-3 against Illinois, while Texas continued to put September in the rear-view mirror by stomping TCU, 30-7.

Below are the SRS ratings through nine weeks. As a reminder, you can read about the methodology here. As always, thanks to Dr. Peter Wolfe for providing the final scores for every college football game.



Miami may by 7-0, but a last-minute win at home against Wake Forest dropped the Hurricanes in the SRS. Miami travels to Tallahassee next week, and Vegas has the Seminoles as 21-point favorites, which just about perfectly matches the SRS. It would be a major upset if Miami was able to defeat FSU, despite the fact that both teams play in the same conference and have the same record.

Week 9 results

Florida State and Alabama jumped out to huge halftime leads against NC State and Tennessee, respectively, but Oregon posted the best game score of the week with a 42-14 win over UCLA. Two weeks ago, UCLA was #8 in the SRS and 5-0. A loss to Stanford last week only dropped the Bruins to 11th, and it’s a testament to how dominant Oregon has been over the past few years that a 28-point win over a team as strong as UCLA gets a collective shrug from the college football nation. Ohio State posted the second best win of the week, crushing Penn State in embarrassing fashion, 63-14. Below are the results from every FBS game in week nine. As a reminder, you can view the SRS scores from every game this season at this page.