Week 6 brought one major upset (Iowa State over Oklahoma), another big one that wasn’t all that shocking given recent history (Michigan State over Michigan), and a handful of other interesting results. Washington State kept looking like an elite team in a win at Oregon. Alabama didn’t blow out Texas A&M but was businesslike in another win. Clemson, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Washington, and Auburn all had nice wins. Miami finally beat Florida State.
Week 7 college football rankings: The new Top 25s, as soon as they come out
We’re collecting the major top-25s right here, as they’re released. If it’s not listed here, it’s not out yet.
We’re getting deeper into conference play now, and the stakes will only get higher 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 the rankings here can give us a good sense of where everybody stands before things get extra serious.
The rankings we’re featuring 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.
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Penn State
- Georgia
- Washington
- TCU
- Wisconsin
- Washington State
- Ohio State
- Auburn
- Miami
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Oklahoma State
- Virginia Tech
- Notre Dame
- Michigan
- USF
- San Diego State
- NC State
- Michigan State
- UCF
- Stanford
- Texas Tech
- Navy
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Penn State
- Washington
- Georgia
- Wisconsin
- TCU
- Ohio State
- Washington State
- Miami
- Auburn
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Oklahoma State
- USF
- Michigan
- Virginia Tech
- San Diego State
- Notre Dame
- NC State
- UCF
- Michigan State
- Utah
- Navy
- Stanford
SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread.
- Ohio State
- Alabama
- Washington
- Penn State
- Georgia
- Clemson
- Wisconsin
- Oklahoma
- Auburn
- Oklahoma State
- Miami-FL
- Florida State
- Notre Dame
- TCU
- Michigan
- USC
- Washington State
- Stanford
- Louisville
- Virginia Tech
- South Florida
- Oregon
- Georgia Tech
- Central Florida
- LSU
Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. Early in the season, it still includes some preseason projections.
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Penn State
- Washington
- Washington State
- Notre Dame
- Ohio state
- TCU
- Miami
- USC
- Wisconsin
- UCF
- Michigan (Computers do weird stuff sometimes. Some systems still incorporate some preseason numbers. Others might just really like what Michigan did in most of its games this year. Either way, Michigan won’t be this high in the human polls.)
- Oklahoma State
- Auburn
- San Diego State
- Oklahoma
- Michigan State
- Virginia Tech
- NC State
- Stanford
- Iowa
- Texas Tech
- Navy
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