{"id":542232,"date":"2026-01-17T06:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/542232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:18:20","slug":"college-basketball-power-rankings-nebraska-jumps-to-no-2-michigan-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/542232\/","title":{"rendered":"College basketball power rankings: Nebraska jumps to No. 2; Michigan slips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS Sports graphic<\/p>\n

The number of undefeated teams in college basketball dropped in the last week from six to three as Michigan<\/a>, Iowa State<\/a> and Vanderbilt<\/a> — and in that order — all suffered their first losses of the season in a five-day span. In some ways that complicates the Power Rankings this week because of the emphasis I place on recent results, but in other ways it simplifies how the rankings shake out. The most obvious example of the latter is this: Arizona<\/a> and Nebraska<\/a> — two of the three remaining unbeaten teams — are 1-2 in this week’s rankings.<\/p>\n

Arizona simply retained its spot at No. 1 after supplanting Michigan last week. But Nebraska moved from No. 6 to No. 2 after the chaotic week. The other unbeaten team, Miami (Ohio)<\/a>, moved up to its highest ranking of the season after its Tuesday win over Central Michigan<\/a> advanced it to a perfect 18-0 entering the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I punished the newly-imperfect teams in this week’s Power Rankings but only marginally because, despite the emphasis on recent results, it’s hard to justify putting Michigan, Vanderbilt or Iowa State outside the top-10. Because of my rankings criteria I do occasionally overcorrect. Not so this week.<\/p>\n

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Bracketology: Duke, UConn move to No. 1 seeds in NCAA Tournament bracket after Vanderbilt, Iowa State lose<\/p>\n

\n David Cobb <\/p>\n

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Let’s get to the rankings.<\/p>\n

Week 1: Purdue<\/a> | Week 2: Arizona<\/a>\u00a0| Week 3: Michigan<\/a>\u00a0| Week 4: Michigan<\/a>\u00a0| Week 5: Michigan<\/a>\u00a0| Week 6: Michigan<\/a>\u00a0| Week 7: Michigan<\/a>\u00a0| Week 8: Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n

College Basketball Power Rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports graphic The number of undefeated teams in college basketball dropped in the last week from six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[11976,1982,598,7,2399,3294,46557,217,74543,37927,6133,18244,666,691,950,4250,2811,7367,6523,3755,7368,3730,1984,69284,1739,41414,1043,5183,3422,8905,13058,1825,8628,12513,34561,5972,12772,9346,2398,1640,849,8651,20705,1774,8835,18378,3471],"class_list":["post-542232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-basketball","tag-baylor-bears","tag-byu-cougars","tag-central-michigan-chippewas","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-power-rankings","tag-college-basketball-rankings","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-depaul-blue-demons","tag-duke","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-florida-gators","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-houston-cougars","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-miami-ohio-redhawks","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-st-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-nebraska","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-saint-louis-billikens","tag-seton-hall-pirates","tag-stanford-cardinal","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-usc-trojans","tag-vanderbilt","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-washington-state-cougars","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}