College Football Rankings 2016: Projected AP Top 25 after Week 9

Chaos reigned in Week 9 as multiple unbeaten teams fell from perfection. What will happen to the winners and the losers in the next AP Top 25?

A half-dozen teams had bye weeks in Week 9, and it might have been the best week to do so after a slew of upsets completely reconfigured the college football landscape. Four Top 25 teams lost their first game of the season, while at least two other schools will likely drop out of the poll this week after sustaining a second or third defeat. Any number of teams could have fit into multiple spots, and there are others waiting in the wings as well who might end up disappointed by their spot among the others receiving votes.

While Alabama kept a stranglehold on its position in first place, and several other teams got a bump up in our Top 25 projections despite not playing this weekend, there are bound to be some surprises that we ultimately fail to see. But given the course of the games from Thursday through Saturday, here is our hypothesis of how teams will fare when the new AP Top 25 is released on Sunday.