College Football Rankings 2020: Projected AP Top 25 for Week 4

The Big Ten now plans to play this fall, but they won’t be included in this week’s poll. How will this weekend’s action impact college football’s Top 25 for Week 4?

The most momentous news heading into Week 3 had little to do with actual football action. Rather than anything that happened on the gridiron, it was Wednesday’s announcement by the Big Ten that they will now start play on Oct. 23-24 that set off the news cycle midweek.

While teams like Ohio State, Penn State, and Wisconsin will be taking the field this fall, they will not be included in this week’s AP Top 25. This could change in upcoming weeks, but for now we won’t see the Buckeyes jump back up to the No. 2 spot in the poll that they occupied in the preseason.

Even without the Big Ten in the mix this week, the AP Top 25 heading into Week 4 will still be peppered with plenty of teams that have yet to play a football game. The SEC is still a week away from starting its all-conference schedule, and another series of postponements and cancellations has kept other teams from other conferences from opening their 2020 seasons.

(Houston, for instance, watched as their game against Memphis was postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak on the Tigers roster… and then their replacement game against Baylor was also postponed when the Bears also experienced a slew of cases on their team.)

What this all means is that the AP Top 25 is in major flux at the moment, with the order largely guesswork. That isn’t about to stop us here at Saturday Blitz, though. Let’s dive in and offer up our best guess of what the AP Top 25 will look like heading into Week 4 action.