Week 8 of the college football season came and went with few surprises, unlike the week prior. The only two games with ranked teams losing: Penn State rolled over Michigan in white-out conditions, and Notre Dame looks like a legitimate Playoff team after destroying USC. Penn State has a case for No. 1, but previous AP No. 1 Alabama somehow covered a 37-point spread against Tennessee, so expect no changes there. Both human polls have the Tide unanimous No. 1.
Collecting new Top 25 rankings after Week 8 college football
We’ve got all the polls in now.
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Miami, TCU, UCF, USF, and Wisconsin remain unbeaten, while Michigan State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia survived tight challenges.
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 gold standard of human polls, until the Playoff committee starts releasing its top 25s later in the year.
- Alabama
- Penn State
- Georgia
- TCU
- Wisconsin
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Washington
- Virginia Tech
- NC State
- Washington State
- Michigan State
- USF
- UCF
- Auburn
- Stanford
- USC
- West Virginia
- LSU
- Memphis
- Iowa State
Doesn’t matter much.
- Alabama
- Penn State
- Georgia
- TCU
- Wisconsin
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Miami
- Oklahoma
- Notre Dame
- Washington
- Oklahoma State
- Virginia Tech
- USF
- NC State
- Washington State
- UCF
- Michigan State
- Auburn
- Stanford
- USC
- West Virginia
- LSU
- Texas A&M
- Michigan
SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread.
- Ohio State (A few of these don’t line up with how humans might have them, due to head-to-head results. Computer rankings don’t go strictly by number of losses or transitive results.)
- Alabama
- Penn State
- Georgia
- Washington
- TCU
- Wisconsin
- Oklahoma State
- UCF
- Notre Dame
- Miami
- Auburn
- Clemson
- Oklahoma
- USF
- Stanford
- Virginia Tech
- Washington STate
- Mississippi State
- Michigan State
- NC State
- Southern Miss
- Georgia Tech
- Iowa State
- Fresno State
A long-running computer rating of FBS and FCS teams, all in one list, usually out very early Sunday morning.
- Alabama
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Notre Dame
- Georgia
- Clemson
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Oklahoma State
- Auburn
- Oklahoma
- TCU
- Virginia Tech
- Stanford
- UCF
- Miami
- Mississippi State
- Georgia Tech
- NC State
- USC
- Michigan
- Florida State
- Washington State
- Iowa State
- Texas
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.
- Alabama
- Penn State
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Clemson
- TCU
- Ohio State
- Wisconsin
- Miami
- UCF
- Oklahoma State
- Washington
- Oklahoma
- Virginia Tech
- NC State
- Michigan State
- USC
- Washington State
- Auburn
- Stanford
- Michigan
- Mississippi State
- South Florida
- Iowa State
- LSU
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