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Collecting new college football rankings, days before the Playoff committee’s first top 25
We’ll add the major top 25s as they’re released. If they’re not listed in here, they’re not out yet.
By SB Nation College News on October 29, 2017 11:59 am
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College football had a wild Week 9. The country’s No. 2, 4, 16, and 17 teams all lost to lower-ranked teams in the span of a half-hour, creating new chaos on the eve of the first ranking that really matters: the College Football Playoff selection committee’s, which will be released on Tuesday.

Penn State lost at Ohio State, moving the Buckeyes into Big Ten and Playoff frontrunner status. TCU lost at Iowa State, which might really be good. South Florida’s loss to Houston solidified UCF in the lead to be the mid-major conferences’ New Year’s bowl representative. And Notre Dame dominated another ranked team, this time NC State.

For the first nine weeks of the season, the most definitive human poll is the AP Top 25. That tends to be only somewhat predictive of how the first Playoff ranking shakes out. Come Tuesday night, there’ll be no need to be predictive, because we’ll have the actual ranking. (Georgia, fresh off a blowout of Florida, is likely to be No. 1 in that ranking.)


Until then, the polls and other top 25s we’re collecting here as they release:

The Associated Press Top 25
The gold standard of human polls, until the Playoff committee starts releasing its top 25s later in the year.

Jeff Sagarin’s ratings
A long-running computer rating of FBS and FCS teams, all in one list, usually out very early Sunday morning.

Alabama
Ohio State
Penn State
Georgia (Computers often do stuff humans wouldn’t agree with. This just means the Sagarin formula would favor those three teams over UGA on a neutral field, not that UGA’s undefeated resume is inferior. Human rankings will favor the Dawgs, and other computers might as well.)
Notre Dame
Clemson
Washington
Auburn
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Wisconsin
Virginia Tech
TCU
Mississippi State
UCF
USF
Stanford
Miami
Iowa State
Texas
Georgia Tech
Michigan
NC State
Washington State
LSU
The USA Today Coaches Poll
Doesn’t matter much.

Alabama
Georgia
Ohio State
Wisconsin
Clemson
Miami
Penn State
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Washington
TCU
Virginia Tech
UCF
Auburn
Iowa State
USC
Stanford
NC State
LSU
Memphis
Mississippi State
USF
Michigan
Arizona
Bill Connelly's S&P+ ratings
SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread.

The Massey computer composite
Every poll and rating smashed into one continually updating ranking, basically. We’ll update this one a couple times throughout Sunday.

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Based on this poll, if we beat VT, we’d be in the top four next week. Just win
 
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This just shows coaches poll weighs wins whether it's an ugly one or not much more than the AP poll. Coaches know how difficult it is to win on a weekly basis, the media and AP all about how cute a team is

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I'm glad we dropped. Play the disrespect angle.

It's also legit that we dropped after that abortion against a horrible UNC team. We didn't even look like a top 30 team yesterday.
 
The Franchise said:
I'm glad we dropped. Play the disrespect angle.

It's also legit that we dropped after that abortion against a horrible UNC team. We didn't even look like a top 30 team yesterday.
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I'm with you.

i would love to see us an underdog this week but I don't think that happens. Can't wait to watch all the talking heads thrash us before this game.
 
Problem2 said:
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LMAO

Get mad haters mwhahaah
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I don't think many coaches give a lot of thought to these polls. They have general perceptions that often override facts.
Notice that LSU and Mississippi State both have 6-2 records. MSU lost to Georgia and Auburn. LSU lost to Mississippi State and Troy. Yep, MSU beat them head-to-head 37-7, but the coaches rank LSU higher than MSU.
 
canecat said:
OSU is way too high. Sorry if you are a undefeated in major conference at this point no defeated team should be ahead of you as that just basically makes the games played up to this point pointless.
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I can understand not thinking OSU should be ahead considering how badly they lost to OU who then lost a few weeks later, but a blanket statement about undefeated teams having to be ranked ahead? If you have two highly ranked teams that play each other in a close game and the neither has lost since, then I think they should absolutely be considered to be ahead of a no loss team. Take Miami out of the equation (since we are all obviously biased there), do you think that Wisconsin is better than OSU, PSU, or ND?
 
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I know you young ones have only experienced heartbreak with the Canes but what this ****face is doing was very typical during our heyday. Obscure, ****** writer gains attention and acclaim by dropping hard takes on the Canes. Lebatard became famous doing this ****. Fat *** Beano Cook got on ESPN doing the same.

Welcome it boys, this is the closest it has been to what it used to be since the turn of the century.
 
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