Collecting Week 4’s college football rankings as they roll in

Week 3 of college football finally gave us some actual action in the top 25. BYU shocked Wisconsin, LSU took down Auburn, Oklahoma State upset (!) Boise State at home, and ranked USC and Arizona State teams lost as well.

The usual disclaimers apply. The only ranking that matters in the end is the Playoff selection committee’s ranking on Selection Sunday, and the committee can change its mind suddenly. It doesn’t even start to release weekly Playoff rankings until around Halloween.

We’ll update each of the following rankings as they release.

The historical gold standard of human polls.

Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, more or less. We’ll update this one a couple times throughout Sunday as rankings come out.

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.

A long-running computer that also includes FCS teams.

Doesn’t matter much, and often is more a poll of PR directors than actual coaches.