College Football Rankings 2020: Projected AP Top 25 for Week 11

A pair of top-10 matchups and the return of the Pac-12 guaranteed movement throughout college football’s AP Top 25. Here are the latest projections.

There have been several flashpoints throughout a strange 2020 college football season. The season kicked off with all 130 teams eligible for ranking in the preseason AP Top 25, even though four conferences had called off their fall seasons due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. That meant seeing teams like Ohio State plummet from No. 2 to unranked once play began in earnest.

In total, nine teams from the Big Ten and Pac-12 fell out of the AP Top 25’s preseason list, along with seven others from those two leagues along with the Mountain West who were no longer among the others receiving votes.

When the Big Ten decided to return in the fall, it set up the first flashpoint when pollsters started returning (or not returning) that league’s teams to their ballots. The next flashpoint came when the Big Ten started play on the penultimate Friday of October. Now we are at our next flashpoint, as the Pac-12 begins play.

That return coincided with a top-five contest in the ACC between a pair of undefeated teams and a top-10 matchup between SEC East rivals. Add it all together, and there is bound to be plenty of shakeup throughout the rankings as teams rise and fall far beyond what we might normally expect.

What will this all mean for the oldest set of Top 25 rankings when the AP releases their rankings ahead of Week 11 play on Sunday afternoon? Keep reading for the latest AP Top 25 projections from Saturday Blitz.