Collecting new Top 25 rankings after college football’s first truly wild weekend

Week 7 of the college football season kicked off with a pair of upsets on Friday night, as then-No. 2 Clemson lost to Syracuse in the Carrier Dome, and then-No. 8 Washington State fell to Cal. Saturday kept the top-10 upsets rolling, with LSU coming back to beat No. 10 Auburn and Arizona State shocking No. 5 Washington.

No. 19 San Diego State and No. 23 Navy also suffered their first losses (to Boise State and Memphis), and No. 25 Texas Tech lost on a West Virginia comeback. Big rankings shakeups!

We’re officially in the heart of conference play, so things only get more important from here. The first College Football Playoff selection committee rankings don’t come out until Halloween, and until then, the best barometer we have is the AP Top 25. No rankings really matter until the committee’s, but at the very least, the rankings give us a good idea of where teams stand until then.

The rankings we’re featuring are here, as soon as each one releases:

The gold standard of human polls, until the Playoff committee starts releasing its top 25s later in the year.

SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread.

Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. Early in the season, it still includes some preseason projections. We’ll update this one multiple times throughout Sunday.

One of the human polls. It doesn’t matter much.

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