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Week 3 college football rankings: Oklahoma rising and Ohio State falling

The new AP and Coaches Polls are out, along with new advanced stats.

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Oklahoma v Ohio State
Oklahoma v Ohio State
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If you thought Week 1 was big, how’d Week 2 treat you? Four massive matchups shook the landscape around at least a bit.

The biggest was Oklahoma taking apart Ohio State. Then we had Clemson sacking the living heck out of Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham 11 times. Georgia took over South Bend and basically won a neutral-site game against Notre Dame. And USC shook off the Week 1 rust and dominated the normally dominant Stanford.

There won’t be Playoff rankings for another month. Until then, we’ve got all of these:

The Associated Press Top 25

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

  1. Alabama
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Clemson
  4. USC
  5. Penn State
  6. Washington
  7. Michigan
  8. Ohio State
  9. Oklahoma State
  10. Wisconsin
  11. Florida State
  12. LSU
  13. Georgia
  14. Louisville
  15. Auburn
  16. Virginia Tech
  17. Miami
  18. Kansas State
  19. Stanford
  20. TCU
  21. Washington State
  22. USF
  23. Tennessee
  24. Florida
  25. UCLA

Bill Connelly’s S&P+ ratings

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

  1. Alabama
  2. LSU
  3. Florida State
  4. Ohio State
  5. Clemson
  6. Oklahoma
  7. USC
  8. Penn State
  9. Michigan
  10. Auburn
  11. Stanford
  12. Wisconsin
  13. Washington
  14. Louisville
  15. Miami
  16. Florida
  17. Oklahoma State
  18. Notre Dame
  19. TCU
  20. Georgia
  21. Texas
  22. Ole Miss
  23. Mississippi State
  24. Texas A&M
  25. Tennessee

The Massey computer composite

Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. Early in the season, it still includes some preseason projections.

  1. Alabama
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Clemson
  4. USC
  5. Penn State
  6. Ohio State
  7. LSU
  8. Michigan
  9. Washington
  10. Oklahoma State
  11. Wisconsin
  12. Florida State
  13. Auburn
  14. Stanford
  15. Georgia
  16. Louisville
  17. Virginia Tech
  18. Kansas State
  19. Miami
  20. Tennessee
  21. TCU
  22. Washington State
  23. Colorado
  24. Iowa
  25. Mississippi State

The USA Today Coaches Poll

The other human poll. It doesn’t matter much.

  1. Alabama
  2. Clemson
  3. Oklahoma
  4. USC
  5. Penn State
  6. Washington
  7. Michigan
  8. Oklahoma State
  9. Ohio State
  10. Florida State
  11. LSU
  12. Wisconsin
  13. Georgia
  14. Louisville
  15. Miami
  16. Virginia Tech
  17. Auburn
  18. Kansas State
  19. Stanford
  20. TCU
  21. USF
  22. Washington State
  23. Tennessee
  24. Utah
  25. Florida
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