College football rankings: Projected Week 5 AP Top 25 after Clemson, Texas A&M highlight 6 ranked teams to lose

Projected AP Top 25 College Football Rankings after Week 4: No. 16-15

16. Michigan Wolverines

Early on, it looked like Michigan might exact revenge on a Rutgers team that almost completely embarrassed the Wolverines last year. Jim Harbaugh’s team continued to seemingly run at will and jumped out to a 20-3 lead heading into halftime. Credit to the Scarlet Knights, though — they came out in the second half fired up on defense and stifled Michigan’s offense.

Rutgers put up 10 unanswered but that obviously wasn’t enough to threaten the Wolverines in the end. Even still, Michigan might not be as good as the team that was blowing the doors off of a number of non-Power 5 teams early in the year and beating up on Washington, but they are still clearly worthy of being a ranked team and could threaten in the Big Ten this season.

15. Texas A&M Aggies

I preached all week that Zach Calzada was a problem for Texas A&M as they had to go up against an SEC defense that was right. However, the backup quarterback filling in for injured Haynes King wasn’t done any favors as the offensive line got their tails whipped by Arkansas most of the day and the same happened for their defensive line as well.

For a team with the talent that Jimbo Fisher has brought in, that type of loss in the trenches shouldn’t be acceptable. It’s tough to see a team that, when healthy, should have a College Football Playoff shot take a loss such as this. But then again, there has often been the one huge letdown moment for Fisher in recent years and this may well have been it.