Boise State nudged up one spot in the College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday night, and that small climb keeps the Broncos right in the thick of the Group of Six race.
The committee placed Boise State at No. 24 in its second rankings release, up from No. 25 a week ago. That bump followed the Broncos’ 64-38 win at Colorado State over the weekend, a game started by backup quarterback Max Cutforth.
With a little under four weeks left before the final rankings are unveiled, Boise State is sitting at No. 12 in the projected bracket. If the season ended now, the Broncos would draw No.
5 Notre Dame in the first round. Since the opening round is played on campus sites, that would send Boise State to South Bend, Indiana.
The Broncos were there in 2025 and lost 28-7 to the Fighting Irish.
Boise State’s path into the 12-team field comes through the automatic berth reserved for the highest-ranked team from a Group of Six conference. That group includes the Mountain West, American, Conference USA, Sun Belt, Mid-American and Pac-12, the league Boise State competes in.
Tuesday’s rankings didn’t include any other G6 team, which leaves the committee’s view of Boise State’s main competition pretty murky. The only new team in the poll was Oklahoma State, which landed at No. 25 and took the spot Boise State had occupied last week.
The AP top 25 released Sunday offered a little more clarity. In that poll, Mountain West team New Mexico, at 8-1, is ranked No. 23 and stands as Boise State’s closest challenger. The Broncos are No. 17 in the AP rankings.
The final CFP rankings and the playoff bracket will be announced Sunday, Dec. 6, the weekend of the conference championship games.
CFP Top 25
Georgia
Utah
Alabama
UCLA
Notre Dame
Texas
Miami
Tennessee
Indiana
BYU
Kentucky
Texas Tech
Wake Forest
Houston
Iowa
Oregon
South Carolina
USC
Ole Miss
Ohio State
LSU
Missouri
Arizona
Boise State
Oklahoma State
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