Compare the final College Football Playoff rankings to other top 25s
The Playoff committee’s final top 25 is now out. Here are some others as well.
The final College Football Playoff rankings are in full below. The top four decided the actual Playoff field, while the next eight or so determined which teams are making the New Year’s Six bowls.
(For the Playoff, we knew Alabama vs. Oklahoma is the Orange and Clemson vs. Notre Dame is the Cotton, a fairly designed field. We also thus deduced we have Ohio State vs. Washington in the Rose and Georgia vs. Texas in the Sugar. The Peach and Fiesta will be in this bowl schedule when available.)
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. Comes out in pieces on Selection Sunday and in full around 2 p.m. ET.
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.
