The Top 7 teams stayed exactly the same in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings, but it’s rivalry week so this poll could look completely different next Tuesday. Who knows. Here are the biggest winners and losers from the selection committee’s fifth installment.

Winners

Florida State

The Seminoles remain No. 3 in this week’s ranking. In it’s narrow 20-17 victory over Boston College on Saturday, Florida State simply did what it does best: win. All season long FSU has had comeback victories. But the team is still undefeated and in the Top 4 is where the Seminoles will remain until — if — they lose.

Over the last few weeks, Florida State has dropped in the rankings, seeing teams with one loss (Alabama and Oregon) jump ahead. Committee chairman Jeff Long explained some of that reasoning.

“There are a number of committee members who look at them and see a team that has not controlled the games they’ve played in — and that’s a term we used last week,” Long said.

“I think there are some committee members who look at them and see a team that has come-from-behind victories (and think) that’s a flaw in Florida State. But there are other committee members who think that they just keep winning. The sign of a quality team is that they can come back and win.”

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Mississippi State

The Bulldogs held their No. 4 spot in this week’s rankings after a 51-0 win over Vanderbilt. Long said Mississippi State is “holding strong” in this position even though they only have one Top 25 win (over No. 15 Auburn). However, the committee takes into consideration where teams were ranked when MSU beat them, so its wins over LSU, Texas A&M and Auburn, who had a higher ranking at the time, are weighed.

The final test comes in Saturday’s Egg Bowl when Mississippi State heads to Oxford to face rival Ole Miss, who’s ranked 19th in this week’s ranking.

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Marshall

The Thundering Herd finally cracked the Top 25. At 11-0, and a big win over UAB on Saturday, Marshall made its debut at No. 24. This is huge because although Boise State is ranked ahead at No. 23, the highest ranked team from the Group of Five conferences — American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt — gets an automatic bid to one of the New Year’s Six bowls.

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Losers

TCU

The Horned Frogs find themselves outside of the Top 4 for the second week in a row at No. 5. All TCU can do to help itself is win the rest of its games — and that Minnesota win is looking better every week, as the Golden Gophers moved up to No. 18 — and hope Baylor stumbles with Texas Tech or Kansas State. Because if TCU and Baylor both win out, the Bears will be crowned Big 12 champions and Long has already said conference champions will be taken into consideration for the playoff bracket.

But before TCU can even think about its head-to-head with Baylor, it has to beat a much-improved Texas team on Thanksgiving night.

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Baylor

For three straight weeks the Bears haven’t budged from their No. 7 spot. For now, all Baylor can do is keep winning and be patient. There’s nothing to be done about its weak strength of schedule, but win the Big 12 and perhaps the committee eventually puts them in a more favorable position to make the playoff.

Auburn beating Alabama in the Iron Bowl, Ole Miss taking down Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl and Oregon losing the Pac-12 title game would all help the Bears.

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UCLA

If UCLA — ranked No. 8 this week — beats Stanford, it will clinch the Pac-12 South Division and face Oregon in the conference championship game. The Bruins have quality wins over Top 25 opponents and their losses came against teams currently ranked Nos. 2 (Oregon) and 25 (Utah) in the College Football Playoff.

Long acknowledged UCLA has substantial wins and quality losses, but the reason why it can’t jump them over a one-loss team — like Baylor, who has a weaker schedule, or Ohio State who has a worse loss (Virginia Tech) — is simply because of those two losses, despite who they were against. If the Bruins make the Pac-12 title game and beat the Ducks, it will be interesting to see if a two-loss team can make the final four.

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