The Posts college football rankings, Heisman watch following Week 7

Here are The Post’s college football rankings following Week 7:The Red River Rivalry was a bloodbath, Texas torching Oklahoma, 34-3, in Dallas.The two rivals didn’t look like they belonged on the same field.This was the Oregon everyone expected to see from the season’s onset.

It outplayed Ohio State in the early game of the year, was explosive offensively (496 yards) and made enough plays on defense despite the absence of star edge rusher Jordan Burch.Will Howard made a mistake, taking off as time expired instead of getting rid of the ball to save precious seconds, at the end of Ohio State’s loss at Oregon.He was otherwise brilliant.

In the long run, the Buckeyes know they have a quarterback who can lead them to a national championship.Georgia isn’t going into Austin and winning unless it performs much better than it did in Saturday’s shaky 10-point win over Mississippi State.Nov.2 in Happy Valley against Ohio State is shaping up to be the biggest game of the James Franklin era.

Penn State is 6-0 for the fourth time since Franklin arrived in 2014.Ohio State handed Penn State its first loss in two of those seasons.Kalen DeBoer should send South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers a gift basket for his shoddy play late in that game.

Alabama, a 21.5-point home favorite, deserved to lose.Sellers missed an open receiver on what would’ve been a game-tying two-point conversion and was even worse after the Gamecocks recovered an onside kick in the final minute.One of the week’s biggest games features two teams — Tennessee and Alabama — that haven’t looked right the last two weeks.

Both could easily be 0-2 against subpar opponents.Miami may be favored in every game the rest of the regular season, which says more about the ACC than the Hurricanes, who have struggled to get by California and Virginia Tech in recent weeks.You can look at Clemson’s five-game winning streak one of two ways.It has taken advantage of a soft schedule — the Tigers’...

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