Perhaps you heard: There was a rather large football game in Ohio yesterday. Ohio State beat Michigan in a double-OT thriller we’ll be talking about forever, and it’s sure to shake up the top of the standings somewhat, as both teams were in the top three.
New 2016 college football rankings, Week 14: How did rivalry week affect the top 25s?
We’re updating in the table below as the Sunday polls roll in. New Playoff rankings will arrive Tuesday night.


But further down the polls things mostly held firm, especially throughout the top 10. Notable results included Washington winning the Apple Cup going away, Penn State clinching the Big Ten East in style, and a little-known upstart named Alabama winning the Iron Bowl.
The big losers this week: Louisville, Florida, Auburn, Washington State, Tennessee and Nebraska.
Playoff rankings will be out Tuesday night around 7 p.m. ET. For now, the standard human polls, a new computer ranking, and a composite ranking that ties everything into one will get us through.
With just one weekend left before Selection Sunday sets the postseason table, here’s what the non-Playoff rankings have to say. We’ll add the AP and Coaches as soon as they’re available Sunday afternoon.
| -- | AP | Coaches | S&P+ | Massey |
| 1 | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama |
| 2 | Ohio State | Ohio State | Michigan | Ohio State |
| 3 | Clemson | Clemson | Ohio State | Michigan |
| 4 | Washington | Washington | Clemson | Clemson |
| 5 | Michigan | Wisconsin | LSU | Washington |
| 6 | Wisconsin | Michigan | Washington | Wisconsin |
| 7 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Louisville | Penn State |
| 8 | Penn State | Penn State | USC | Colorado |
| 9 | Colorado | Colorado | FSU | USC |
| 10 | USC | Oklahoma State | Wisconsin | Oklahoma |
| 11 | Oklahoma State | USC | Penn State | FSU |
| 12 | Florida State | Florida State | Auburn | WMU |
| 13 | Western Michigan | West Virginia | Oklahoma | Louisville |
| 14 | West Virginia | Western Michigan | WKU | Stanford |
| 15 | Florida | Louisville | Colorado | WVU |
| 16 | Louisville | Florida | Boise State | Oklahoma State |
| 17 | Stanford | Stanford | Miami | LSU |
| 18 | Auburn | Virginia Tech | Temple | Auburn |
| 19 | Virginia Tech | Auburn | Texas A&M | Florida |
| 20 | Navy | Navy | Colorado State | Boise State |
| 21 | LSU | LSU | Florida | Wash. State |
| 22 | Iowa | Nebraska | Iowa | USF |
| 23 | Nebraska | USF | Oklahoma State | Virginia Tech |
| 24 | USF | Utah | TCU | Houston |
| 25 | Pitt | Iowa | North Carolina | Iowa |
The four rankings used here
The Associated Press Top 25: The longest-running and best-respected human poll. Didn’t have any official bearing on the latter years of the BCS and doesn’t have any official bearing on the Playoff. The AP Poll can be expected early afternoon on Sunday.
The USA Today Coaches Poll: Formerly part of the BCS and now just a poll. It tends to react more cautiously than the AP’s. Though polling athletic departments in order to rank other athletic departments is dubious, we still want multiple human polls in here, and this is the other big one. This poll typically rolls in around noon on Sunday.
The Massey computer composite: A collection of dozens of ratings, all combined into one. We include the latest version as of publication. (It does also include the two human polls, but they can’t sway it all that much.)
Bill Connelly’s S&P+ ratings: SB Nation’s favored advanced stat. An important thing to keep in mind: It will probably look different than the human polls, but that’s because it isn’t a human poll! It’s a measure of efficiency derived from play-by-play and drive data from every FBS game. It’s designed to predict which teams would win upcoming games, not award teams for impressive wins.
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