2018 College Football Season: Week 6 Top 25

Well here we are the start of Week 6.

You can find my 1-130 rankings here and my prediction accounting here.

So, there are some big swings this week as we continue to reduce the preseason influence on the ratings.

Rank	Team	Rating	Last Week Rank	Last Week Rating	Rank Diff.	Rating Diff.
1	Alabama	27.209	1	33.055	0	-5.846
2	Notre Dame	24.760	6	25.862	4	-1.103
3	Georgia	23.794	2	29.518	-1	-5.724
4	Ohio State	23.767	5	25.890	1	-2.124
5	Oklahoma	23.737	4	27.130	-1	-3.393
6	Clemson	21.977	3	28.288	-3	-6.311
7	LSU	19.973	17	17.285	10	2.687
8	Michigan State	19.085	9	24.217	1	-5.133
9	Wisconsin	18.980	12	19.523	3	-0.543
10	Michigan	17.517	10	20.720	0	-3.203
11	Washington	17.261	13	18.964	2	-1.703
12	Kentucky	17.057	22	15.492	10	1.565
13	UCF	17.019	11	19.816	-2	-2.797
14	Boise State	16.952	15	17.738	1	-0.786
15	Stanford	16.905	8	24.461	-7	-7.557
16	Penn State	16.829	7	24.725	-9	-7.896
17	NC State	15.865	19	16.033	2	-0.168
18	Texas	13.548	26	11.935	8	1.612
19	Auburn	13.315	16	17.529	-3	-4.214
20	Miami (FL)	13.294	21	15.703	1	-2.409
21	North Texas	13.053	14	18.415	-7	-5.362
22	Virginia Tech	12.614	37	8.442	15	4.172
23	Florida	12.170	28	10.568	5	1.602
24	Army	11.801	57	3.914	33	7.888
25	West Virginia	11.763	38	8.422	13	3.341
Dropped From the Top 25 This Week
27	USC	11.184	24	12.579	-3	-1.395
30	South Carolina	10.120	20	15.788	-10	-5.668
31	Duke	9.785	23	14.960	-8	-5.175
33	Boston College	9.308	25	12.108	-8	-2.800

That reduction of influence of preseason rankings helped with the upswings of teams like Army (a dominant win at Buffalo didn’t hurt) and West Virginia, while Va Tech had an impressive bounce back after falling to ODU. Further up the board both LSU and Kentucky jumped 10 spots. LSU after beating up on Ole Miss and Kentucky after a convincing win over South Carolina setting up a matchup with Georgia, in a handful of weeks, presumably for the SEC East crown. The big fallers were Stanford (lost at Notre Dame), and Penn State (lost vs Ohio State). As for those teams that fell out, USC beat Arizona, but it was less than convincing, and they get less boost from a big preseason rating. South Carolina fell to Kentucky, but they’re still a good team and should find themselves trickling back up the rankings as the season goes along. Duke has been an enigma this season and continued by getting blasted by Virginia Tech at home in the first half and losing by a couple of TDs. Lastly, Boston College beat Temple after losing at Purdue last week, but they’ve been much more inconsistent as the schedule got harder and will be an interesting watch in the heart of conference season. All-in-all we’re getting clarity and ironing out some of the kinks that come with a catch all preseason rating.