Note: despite the many upsets this past weekend, they were not predicted by any existing ranking system, further emphasizing the need for a ranking constructed purely on past evidence and not future speculation
Explanation: a fair ranking on the network of wins and losses.
Top 25 (Full Rankings)
Each team's win score (value of wins) minus their loss score (cost of losses) in parentheses.
- Notre Dame (42)
- LSU (36.82)
- Florida (36.45)
- Alabama (36.14)
- Ohio State (35.95)
- Oregon (35.9)
- Kansas State (34.63)
- Georgia (33.8)
- South Carolina (32.45)
- Oregon State (31.37)
- Stanford (31.14)
- Louisville (30.38)
- Arizona (28.93)
- Texas Tech (28.75)
- West Virginia (26.98)
- USC (26.12)
- Oklahoma (26.11)
- Mississippi State (25.9)
- Louisiana Tech (25.47)
- Washington (25.44)
- Texas (25.36)
- Texas A&M (24.22)
- Iowa State (23.32)
- Toledo (22.8)
- Oklahoma State (20.18)