Collecting new college football rankings, days before the Playoff committee’s first top 25

College football had a wild Week 9. The country’s No. 2, 4, 16, and 17 teams all lost to lower-ranked teams in the span of a half-hour, creating new chaos on the eve of the first ranking that really matters: the College Football Playoff selection committee’s, which will be released on Tuesday.

Penn State lost at Ohio State, moving the Buckeyes into Big Ten and Playoff frontrunner status. TCU lost at Iowa State, which might really be good. South Florida’s loss to Houston solidified UCF in the lead to be the mid-major conferences’ New Year’s bowl representative. And Notre Dame dominated another ranked team, this time NC State.

For the first nine weeks of the season, the most definitive human poll is the AP Top 25. That tends to be only somewhat predictive of how the first Playoff ranking shakes out. Come Tuesday night, there’ll be no need to be predictive, because we’ll have the actual ranking. (Georgia, fresh off a blowout of Florida, is likely to be No. 1 in that ranking.)

Until then, the polls and other top 25s we’re collecting here as they release:

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

A long-running computer rating of FBS and FCS teams, all in one list, usually out very early Sunday morning.

Doesn’t matter much.

Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. We’ll update this one a couple times throughout Sunday.

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