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NCAA Football Rankings 2020: Analyzing Week 12 Polls and Top 25 Standings

Do the Week 12 college football polls look familiar? They should; they're almost identical to last week's, save for a handful of teams moving a couple spots.

The top four of Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Clemson is unchanged, and Texas A&M, Florida, Cincinnati and BYU remain on the cusp of the College Football Playoff with a month left in the regular season. In the Coaches Poll, the top 11 teams remained unchanged. Northwestern, which moved up three spots from No. 23 to No. 20, had the biggest leap of any ranked team.

Tulsa joined the Top 25 in the AP Poll after its upset win over then-No.