Three weeks into the 2018 college football season, we are beginning to see things settle in the Top 25 rankings. Here are the projections after Week 3 play.
For the second straight season, hurricane season has impacted the college football calendar. There were several major cancellations throughout the Week 3 schedule due to Hurricane Florence, including multiple games featuring Top 25 teams. Other teams had to shift around their calendars to play earlier in the week before the storm made landfall.
As is frequently the case at this juncture of the season, the results around the parts of the country that were able to play football this weekend led to a bit of a reshuffling of the Top 25. There were three showdowns featuring Top 25 teams on both sidelines.
One was an all-SEC showdown, another was a battle between a Group of Five squad and a Power Five opponent that served as an elimination game of sorts for the pollsters, and the third was a non-conference showdown between top-15 power conference squads.
In addition, a top-10 team was upset by an unranked opponent. Boise State is going to drop out of the polls this week as a result of their loss on the road in one of those Top 25 battles. Little is going to change at the very top of the polls, but beyond the top five the list will look radically different from where it was entering the weekend.
Beyond Boise State’s slide, Wisconsin’s stumble, and USC’s fall from grace, there is going to be plenty of other reshuffling in the AP Top 25 this week thanks to a wild and upset-filled Week 3 slate. Here are the latest projections for how the AP voters will sort out their Top 25 once the dust settles on Saturday action.