2014 season: games and coaching changes
- National champion
- Ohio State
- No. 1 in the last AP poll before the bowls
- Alabama
- Head-coach changes listed
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Your team
The 2014 College Football Playoff, game by game
Marquee games
- Rose Bowl Game, semifinal
Oregon59
Florida State20January 1, 2015 - Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
Michigan State42
Baylor41January 1, 2015 - Allstate Sugar Bowl, semifinal
Ohio State42
Alabama35January 1, 2015 - Outback Bowl
Wisconsin34
Auburn31January 1, 2015 - CFP National Championship GameOhio State42Oregon20January 12, 2015
Biggest ranked-team losses
Regular season. Ranks are the AP poll of the game’s own week; a loss to an unranked team, or one ranked 5 or more spots lower.
- No. 2 Oregon lost to Arizona, unranked, 31-24, Oct 2
- No. 3 Auburn lost to Texas A&M, unranked, 41-38, Nov 8
- No. 3 Ole Miss lost to No. 24 LSU, 10-7, Oct 25
- No. 3 Alabama lost to No. 11 Ole Miss, 23-17, Oct 4
- No. 4 Baylor lost to West Virginia, unranked, 41-27, Oct 18
- No. 4 Oklahoma lost to No. 25 TCU, 37-33, Oct 4
- No. 4 Mississippi State lost to No. 18 Ole Miss, 31-17, Nov 29
- No. 6 Georgia lost to No. 24 South Carolina, 38-35, Sep 13
Most ranked teams lost in week 6 of 2014: 11, 5 of them in the top 10.
Darker = more ranked teams lost that week. Each cell links to that week’s first game below.
Ranked-team losses by week, as a table
| Week | Dates | Ranked teams that lost | Of those, top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 23 to Sep 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Sep 4 to Sep 7 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Sep 11 to Sep 13 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Sep 18 to Sep 20 | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | Sep 25 to Sep 27 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | Oct 2 to Oct 4 | 11 | 5 |
| 7 | Oct 9 to Oct 11 | 7 | 3 |
| 8 | Oct 14 to Oct 18 | 6 | 2 |
| 9 | Oct 21 to Oct 25 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | Oct 30 to Nov 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 11 | Nov 4 to Nov 8 | 8 | 4 |
| 12 | Nov 11 to Nov 15 | 8 | 3 |
| 13 | Nov 18 to Nov 22 | 5 | 1 |
| 14 | Nov 25 to Nov 29 | 8 | 3 |
| 15 | Dec 4 to Dec 6 | 6 | 2 |
| 16 | Dec 12 to Dec 13 | 0 | 0 |
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