The University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team ranks No.5 in the College Football Playoff selection committee's latest Top 25 rankings.
The committee, led by chair and Iowa Director of Athletics Gary Barta, ranked UC No. 6 last week in the first release of its rankings.
Cincinnati (No. 2 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll and No. 3 in the latest USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches poll) moved to 9-0 overall and 5-0 in the American Athletic Conference after holding off Tulsa 28-20 Saturday at Nippert Stadium.
Bearcats head coach Luke Fickell said he wasn't concerned with how the committee would judge his team after the Bearcats struggled for the third consecutive game to impress against a team in the bottom half of the AAC standings.