If you thought Week 1 was big, how’d Week 2 treat you? Four massive matchups shook the landscape around at least a bit.
Week 3 college football rankings: Oklahoma rising and Ohio State falling
The new AP and Coaches Polls are out, along with new advanced stats.


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 gold standard of human polls, until the Playoff committee starts releasing its top 25s later in the year.
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Clemson
- USC
- Penn State
- Washington
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma State
- Wisconsin
- Florida State
- LSU
- Georgia
- Louisville
- Auburn
- Virginia Tech
- Miami
- Kansas State
- Stanford
- TCU
- Washington State
- USF
- Tennessee
- Florida
- UCLA
SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread. Usually releases by Monday afternoon.
- Alabama
- LSU
- Florida State
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Penn State
- Michigan
- Auburn
- Stanford
- Wisconsin
- Washington
- Louisville
- Miami
- Florida
- Oklahoma State
- Notre Dame
- TCU
- Georgia
- Texas
- Ole Miss
- Mississippi State
- Texas A&M
- Tennessee
Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. Early in the season, it still includes some preseason projections.
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Clemson
- USC
- Penn State
- Ohio State
- LSU
- Michigan
- Washington
- Oklahoma State
- Wisconsin
- Florida State
- Auburn
- Stanford
- Georgia
- Louisville
- Virginia Tech
- Kansas State
- Miami
- Tennessee
- TCU
- Washington State
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Mississippi State
The other human poll. It doesn’t matter much.
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Penn State
- Washington
- Michigan
- Oklahoma State
- Ohio State
- Florida State
- LSU
- Wisconsin
- Georgia
- Louisville
- Miami
- Virginia Tech
- Auburn
- Kansas State
- Stanford
- TCU
- USF
- Washington State
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Florida











