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Unbiased and completely objective College Football rankings by a chump in Austin TX.

The model behind Mike’s Poll is a simple concept where teams are assigned a number in inverse order of their current ranking. In the FBS, there are 138 teams. So every team is ranked from #1 to #138. In 2026, Ohio State is the preseason number one. So, they will be assigned 138 points. Oregon is preseason #2; so they will be assigned 137 points…and so forth all the way down the list. Charleston is preseason #138; therefore they be assigned 1 point to start the year. If Oregon played Charleston and won. Oregon would receive 1 point towards their rankings. If Charleston pulled the upset, they would receive 137 points.
At the end of every week, teams are given points from that week and added to cumulative total of the year.
Every team will be re-ranked at the end of every week based on their cumulative points earned to date.
- Teams earn zero points for a loss
- Zero points for beating a 1-AA or any other non-Div 1A (FBS) team
- Ranking is for Div 1A schools only
- Bye weeks are counted as zero (if you don’t play, you can’t accumulate points)
- Rankings will be recalculated and published at the end of every week.
The preseason rankings come from CBSSports.com
Inherent starting bias - while the goal is to remove all East Coast, SEC, Blue Blood-program bias, all schools are initially ranked by CBS Sports. There will undoubtably be some inherent biases built into the preseason ranking, but we have to start somewhere.

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Full College Football Rankings after Week 4

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How is Ohio State not ranked in the Top 25? Here’s the calculation.

Here is the preseason Top 5 ranks and how many points they’ve accumulated so far based on the quality of their opponents and wins. Remeber, zero points for a loss, and zero points for playing a non Div-1A FBS team.

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College Football Rankings after Week 3

There has been some changes at the top. LSU fell out of the top 10 (to #14) after the loss to Ole Miss. Oregon dropped 9 spots after beating Div 1-AA Portland State (zero points). Florida jumped 20 spots to #11 after beating Auburn. Texas Tech both jumped 18 spots after beating Houston. Pittsburgh holds strong at #10 after beating Syracuse.