College football experts from CBS Sports and 247Sports contribute ballots each week, which are averaged together for our rankings. You can see the top 25 below and 26-136 on our rankings page.

Alabama suffered its first SEC defeat, and Texas fell in Athens against Georgia. How do these results, along with others, impact the rankings?

The program has a pipeline to Texas for talent and sits in a winnable Big 12 conference. This should be a top-third job in that league, which means a fairly clear path to the College Football Playoff. The Cowboys’ financial investment must increase, however, and the school’s leadership has spent some of this year on somewhat shaky ground.

Virginia Tech has been filled, but four SEC jobs remain open. 247Sports ranks the best FBS openings based on potential for recruiting success.

Texas A&M's 27-point second-half comeback to beat South Carolina 31-30 was the biggest in the FBS since Tulsa made up a 28-point halftime deficit to edge UTSA 46-45 on Oct. 26, 2024, according to Sportradar. The last time an SEC team overcame a deficit of 27-plus points was LSU, which was 28 down before it beat Troy 40-31 in 2008.

In order to help prepare for what has the potential to be the most hectic coach search season since the Oklahoma/LSU/USC/Notre Dame madness, I decided to build my own set of coach rankings to inform a dashboard to prepare me for the season.

The midseason carousel spun faster than anyone expected, reshaping the market with blueblood vacancies and ripple effects across every power league. We evaluated each open job the way candidates do, weighing recent and historical performance, access to the ...

Texas Tech and BYU can each clinch a spot in the title game by winning this week. They would also both be in if Arizona State loses. Utah can make it with a win, a loss by Texas Tech and wins by BYU and Arizona State.