CBS Sports 138: Miami tops Ohio State, BYU for No. 1 spot in college football rankings

The Hurricanes surged to the top spot in our rankings after a chaotic Week 7 After a week of historic shakeups at the top of the college football rankings, it was the Miami Hurricanes who emerged atop the pile and now enter the second half of the season as the No. 1 team in the country, according to the CBS Sports 138. The Hurricanes needed two overtimes to put away rival Florida State. In doing so, they guaranteed their spot at the table as one of the few unbeaten teams left in the sport. Our experts are not unanimous with Miami's ascension to No. 1, as evidenced by the team's average ballot ranking of 1.4.

But with no one else carrying a ballot ranking better than 2.5, it's clear that Mario Cristobal's team is on a tier by itself in the rankings this week in the eyes of our experts. Ohio State narrowly beat out BYU for the No. 2 spot, and then there is another drop-off to the next tier of contenders, with Georgia, Notre Dame and Indiana all holding down the No. 4 through No. 6 spots with some clear separation ahead of the rest of the top 10. So while all three of those teams did lose in Week 7, there is still a very high floor