Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott and Alabama’s Derrick Henry both represent teams atop the latest CFB Vegas Rankings. Evan Abrams, ESPN Chalk Close Production Researcher for ESPN Stats & Info Contributes to ESPN Chalk section Worked in sports information analytics for the past decade Alabama and Ohio State both stay atop the College Football Vegas Rankings, tied for No. 1 as they were last week. Alabama has a large test this week against LSU, while Ohio State hosts Minnesota. Nos. 3 and 4 in the rankings are both Big 12 schools: TCU and Baylor, with their inevitable meeting schedule for Friday, November 27. Two different schools moved out of the College Football Vegas Rankings this week: Temple and Georgia. The CFB Vegas Rankings are the composite power ratings of a panel of professional handicappers and college football statisticians, including fellow Insider Phil Steele, Brian Edwards and Bruce Marshall of The Gold Sheet. The ratings are intended to weight the relative strength of the teams if they met on a neutral field and to be compared to the point spread on a given game. For example, if Ohio State and Michigan State were to play on a neutral field this week, the Buckeyes would be considered a 5-point favorite by our ratings. Here’s a look at the 25 best teams in college football right now, according to our panel. …
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