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Northwestern is up to #23 in the latest College Football Playoff Rankings

Saturday’s 23-13 win over Purdue, coupled with losses by Iowa and Iowa State, propelled Northwestern up a two spots in the third edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings.

Third #CFBPlayoff Rankings:

2ufe0fu20e31ufe0fu20e3 Memphis
2ufe0fu20e32ufe0fu20e3 Stanford
2ufe0fu20e33ufe0fu20e3 Northwestern
2ufe0fu20e34ufe0fu20e3 Michigan
2ufe0fu20e35ufe0fu20e3 Boise State— College Football Playoff (@CFBPlayoff) November 15, 2017

The Hawkeyes, last week’s #20, hurt Northwestern’s resume by falling out of the rankings entirely after being shellacked by Wisconsin, but the Wildcats still has a top-20 win thanks to #17 Michigan State. Northwestern also has losses to #10 Penn State and #5 Wisconsin (along with unranked Duke).