This college football season’s had a lot of chaos on the fringes of the Playoff race, but little in the way of attrition right at the top. Week 12’s results didn’t change that, with only West Virginia dropping out of the race.
Collecting college football’s new top-25 rankings for Week 13 in one place
We’ve added each of Sunday’s main top 25s as they’ve released.
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There’s guaranteed upheaval next week, when either Ohio State or Michigan has to fall out. The Big 12 could provide more, too, depending on if West Virginia can beat Oklahoma in Morgantown. So could the Pac-12 if Washington robs rival Washington State of its own divisional title and dream season. But for a few more days, everything’s just about status quo up top.
We’ve updated each of the below top-25 rankings as they’ve released. Explanations for each of these rankings are below the table.
The Playoff committee’s rankings come out Tuesday. Here are a bunch of other rankings, both of the human- and computer-generated variety:
Selection Sunday college football rankings
Team | CFP | AP | S&P+ | Massey | Sagarin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama, 13-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Clemson, 13-0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Notre Dame, 12-0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Oklahoma, 12-1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Georgia, 11-2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Ohio State, 12-1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Michigan, 10-2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| UCF, 12-0 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 18 |
| Washignton, 10-3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 |
| Florida, 9-3 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 19 |
| LSU, 9-3 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 14 |
| Penn State, 9-3 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| Washington State, 10-2 | 13 | 12 | 25 | 13 | 16 |
| Kentucky, 9-3 | 14 | 16 | - | 16 | - |
| Texas, 9-4 | 15 | 14 | - | 21 | 21 |
| West Virginia, 8-3 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 12 |
| Utah, 9-4 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 15 |
| Mississippi State, 8-4 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 8 |
| Texas A&M, 8-4 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 17 |
| Syracuse, 9-3 | 20 | 17 | - | 24 | - |
| Fresno State, 11-2 | 21 | 19 | 10 | 19 | 23 |
| Northwestern, 8-5 | 22 | - | - | - | - |
| Missouri, 8-4 | 23 | 24 | 16 | 14 | 13 |
| Iowa State, 8-4 | 24 | 25 | - | - | - |
| Boise State, 10-3 | 25 | 23 | - | 22 | - |
| Appalachian State | - | - | 13 | - | - |
| Army, 9-2 | - | 22 | - | - | - |
| Auburn, 7-5 | - | - | 18 | - | 20 |
| Iowa, 8-4 | - | - | - | 23 | 11 |
| Memphis, 8-5 | - | - | 23 | - | - |
| Miami, 7-5 | - | - | 22 | - | 25 |
| North Dakota State, FCS | - | - | - | - | 24 |
| Stanford, 8-4 | - | - | - | 25 | 22 |
| Utah State, 10-2 | - | - | 21 | - | - |
| Wisconsin, 7-5 | - | - | 24 | - | - |
The key thing, but not out until Tuesday nights around 7:10 p.m. ET. They’ll be in a separate post. Until they come, all the rest of this stuff is the best we’ve got.
The historical gold standard of human polls. Releases Sundays at 2 p.m. ET.
SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform well against the Vegas spread, along with offering much deeper evaluations of teams. Usually releases Sunday afternoon.
Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, more or less. Yep, there are dozens and dozens of weekly CFB rankings! We’ll update it a couple times throughout Sunday.
A long-running computer ranking that also includes FCS teams. Usually releases early Sunday.
Doesn’t matter much, and often is more a poll of PR directors than actual coaches. Releases around noon ET on Sundays.
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