Around the Dog Park: The College Football Playoff ranking is vastly underrating UCF

General G5 Football

• Eastern Washington’s quarterback Gage Gubrud made national headlines for all the wrong reasons after an embarrassing arrest this weekend.

American

• USF was not included in the second edition of the College Football Playoffs rankings despite their 8-1 record.
• The numbers make it obvious that the CFP rankings are vastly under-ranking undefeated UCF.

C-USA

• Louisiana Tech has preliminary selected a new mascot to replace Tech XXI.
• Miklo Smalls is likely the quarterback of the future for Rice. He was granted a lot of snaps against UAB in a blowout and played pretty well.
• Old Dominion’s Denzel Williams was arrested for felony assault on November 1st.
• UAB’s Andre Wilson is seeking to enjoy a huge game in front of a hometown crowd as he returns to San Antonio to face UTSA.
• More trouble with the law for Marshall after outside linebacker Donyae Moody finally turned himself in to the police after being accused of fleeing from the police in a vehicle a month ago.
• Charlotte has signed an apparel provider contract with Nike.
• More national spotlight on Lane Kiffin and FAU, this time from ESPN.com.

Sun Belt

• New Mexico State defensive end Cedric Wilcots II was selected as the Sun Belt Defensive Player of the week after his three sack performance against Texas State.
• Arkansas State’s phenomenal defensive line will prove a huge challenge to South Alabama this week. The Red Wolves secondary has also helped lead the way to Arkansas States’ strong push in the back end of the season.
• Texas State went deep into their bag of tricks to find plays that could get them on the board against New Mexico State.

• Florida State’s hurricane-canceled match up with ULM has been rescheduled for December 2nd at 12 pm EST.
• Appalachian State wide receiver Shaedon Meadors is seeking to transfer to a new program.
• New Mexico State wide receiver Jaleel Scott received an invitation to the Senior Bowl. Scott leads the Aggies in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns.