Here are Week 6’s new college football rankings

College football’s Week 5 results gave us some important action at the height of the top-25 rankings, with Ohio State beating Penn State and Notre Dame whooping Stanford.

Elsewhere in the previous top 25: Washington, Florida, Virginia Tech, Oregon, and West Virginia beat ranked teams, meaning shakeups all over the bottom of the rankings too.

Otherwise, most of the previously ranked teams just held serve, though Clemson now has some major QB drama.

The usual disclaimers apply. The only college football 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.

The historical gold standard of human polls.

Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, more or less.

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.

A long-running computer ranking that also includes FCS teams

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