Week 15 Polls

The College Football Playoff rankings

The only rankings that actually matter, in terms of setting up the postseason. This is the list that makes up the Playoff field and determines a lot of who goes where. For instance, Washington’s destined for the New Year’s Six because it got above TCU.

1. Clemson
2. Oklahoma
3. Georgia
4. Alabama
5. Ohio State
6. Wisconsin
7. Auburn
8. USC
9. Penn State
10. Miami
11. Washington
12. UCF
13. Stanford
14. Notre Dame
15. TCU
16. Michigan State
17. LSU
18. Washington State
19. Oklahoma State
20. Memphis
21. Northwestern
22. Virginia Tech
23. Mississippi State
24. NC State
25. Boise State

The Associated Press Top 25

The historical gold standard of human polls, but don’t MATTER matter now that the Playoff rankings are underway. Usually come out at 2 p.m. ET on Sundays, though we got them a little sooner on Selection Sunday.

1. Clemson
2. Oklahoma
3. Georgia
4. Alabama
5. Ohio State
6. Wisconsin
7. Auburn
8. USC
9. Penn State
10. UCF
11. Miami
12. Washington
13. TCU
14. Notre Dame
15. Stanford
16. LSU
17. Oklahoma State
18. Michigan State
19. Memphis
20. Northwestern
21. Washington State
22. Virginia Tech
23. USF
24. Mississippi State
25. Boise State

Bill Connelly's S&P+ ratings

SB Nation’s favored college football advanced stat, which tends to perform very well against the Vegas spread. Out on Sundays.

1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Washington
5. Penn State
6. Wisconsin
7. Clemson
8. Oklahoma
9. Central Florida
10. Auburn
11. Oklahoma State
12. Florida Atlantic
13. TCU
14. Notre Dame
15. South Florida
16. Toledo
17. Louisville
18. Memphis
19. Miami-FL
20. LSU
21. Michigan
22. USC
23. Arkansas State
24. Virginia Tech
25. Fresno State

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.

1. Clemson
2. Georgia
3. Ohio State
4. Oklahoma
5. Alabama
6. Wisconsin
7. Penn State
8. Auburn
9. UCF
10. Notre Dame
11. Miami
12. Washington
13. USC
14. TCU
15. Stanford
16. Virginia Tech
17. Oklahoma State
18. Northwestern
19. Michigan State
20. LSU
21. Michigan
22. Memphis
23. NC State
24. Iowa
25. Washington State

The Sagarin ratings

A team quality stat that also includes FCS teams. Posts early Sunday.

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Georgia
4. Ohio State
5. Oklahoma
6. Penn State
7. Wisconsin
8. Auburn
9. Washington
10. Notre Dame
11. Stanford
12. TCU
13. USC
14. Oklahoma State
15. Miami
16. UCF
17. Virginia Tech
18. LSU
19. Northwestern
20. Mississippi State
21. Michigan
22. Iowa
23. Louisville
24. NC State
25. Michigan State

Georgia Overview

As was mentioned on Twitter yesterday – I’m not crying, you’re crying. We’re In. We will play Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl for the right to play for it all after beating the Dawg crap out of Auburn 28-7.

Movers

Fell Out: #25 Fresno State

Newcomers: #25 Boise State

Overrated

#12 Washington

The Huskies aren’t near as good as they were last year, but yet they’ll play in a NY6 bowl.

Underrated

#14 Notre Dame

The Irish deserve to be in a NY6 bowl game after the season they’ve had. Alas, Georgia fans will still always have 20-19.

This Week’s Top 25 Matchups

We wait for bowl season.

Upset Alert

Last week, I took Stanford incorrectly. We’ll wait for the bowls to make a new pick.