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College Football Rankings: FanSided Top 25 entering Week 12

By Andrew Hammond

Nov 12, 2016; Iowa City, IA, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh watches his team fall to the Iowa Hawkeyes by a late field goal at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa beat Michigan 14 to 13. Mandatory Credit: Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 12, 2016; Iowa City, IA, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh watches his team fall to the Iowa Hawkeyes by a late field goal at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa beat Michigan 14 to 13. Mandatory Credit: Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 12, 2016; Pullman, WA, USA; Washington State Cougars head coach Mike Leach looks on against the California Golden Bears during the first half at Martin Stadium. Mandatory Credit: James Snook-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 12, 2016; Pullman, WA, USA; Washington State Cougars head coach Mike Leach looks on against the California Golden Bears during the first half at Martin Stadium. Mandatory Credit: James Snook-USA TODAY Sports /

The rise of the Pac-12 has been amazing to see this season, instead of the Stanford’s and Oregon’s of the world beating up the conference, the Pac-12 has shown real depth and one of the biggest stories in the conference has been Washington State. After losing their first two games of the season, the Cougars have come back to win eight straight and now lead the Pac-12 North. Up next for Washington State is a possible Pac-12 title game preview as they go up to Colorado, who’s ranked pretty close to the Cougars.

If you had Colorado and Washington State this high in any rankings at this point of the season, we’re going to Vegas. One of the good things for Colorado this season is that they’ve been able to stay away from the “letdown” games. It could’ve been easy for Colorado to let one of the lower teams in the Pac-12 trip them up. To end the season, Colorado has two tough games against Washington State and Utah, it’s possible that they could lose both but that shouldn’t take anything away from a team that’s soared past expectations this season.

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