Rankings

Every week of the season as it was published, from the games played up to then. Every team started the season at 1500.

2026 Week 1

#	Move	Team	Conference	Record	Points	Week
1	new	Memphis	American Athletic	2-0	1,636	—
2	new	USC	Big Ten	2-0	1,633	—
3	new	Miami	ACC	1-0	1,620	—
4	new	UCLA	Big Ten	1-0	1,604	—
5	new	Massachusetts	Mid-American	1-0	1,603	—
6	new	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1-0	1,590	—
7	new	North Dakota State	Mountain West	2-0	1,587	—
8	new	Alabama	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
9	new	Cincinnati	Big 12	1-0	1,576	—
10	new	Colorado State	Pac-12	1-0	1,576	—
11	new	Florida	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
12	new	Illinois	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
13	new	Indiana	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
14	new	Iowa	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
15	new	LSU	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
16	new	Mississippi State	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
17	new	Nebraska	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
18	new	Nevada	Mountain West	1-0	1,576	—
19	new	New Mexico	Mountain West	1-0	1,576	—
20	new	Ohio State	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
21	new	Oklahoma	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
22	new	Penn State	Big Ten	1-0	1,576	—
23	new	Pittsburgh	ACC	1-0	1,576	—
24	new	South Carolina	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
25	new	Texas	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
26	new	Texas A&M	SEC	1-0	1,576	—
27	new	Virginia	ACC	1-0	1,576	—
28	new	Wake Forest	ACC	1-0	1,576	—
29	new	SMU	ACC	1-0	1,572	—
30	new	Duke	ACC	1-0	1,572	—
31	new	Tulsa	American Athletic	1-0	1,572	—
32	new	Washington	Big Ten	1-0	1,572	—
33	new	Houston	Big 12	1-0	1,571	—
34	new	Michigan State	Big Ten	1-0	1,566	—
35	new	South Florida	American Athletic	1-0	1,566	—
36	new	North Carolina	ACC	1-0	1,564	—
37	new	James Madison	Sun Belt	1-0	1,560	—
38	new	Oregon	Big Ten	1-0	1,560	—
39	new	West Virginia	Big 12	1-0	1,560	—
40	new	Ole Miss	SEC	1-0	1,553	—
41	new	Troy	Sun Belt	1-0	1,545	—
42	new	Colorado	Big 12	1-0	1,535	—
43	new	Auburn	SEC	1-0	1,530	—
44	new	San José State	Mountain West	1-1	1,528	—
45	new	UNLV	Mountain West	1-1	1,525	—
46	new	Michigan	Big Ten	1-0	1,525	—
47	new	Air Force	Mountain West	1-0	1,516	—
48	new	App State	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
49	new	Arizona	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
50	new	Arizona State	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
51	new	Arkansas	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
52	new	Army	American Athletic	1-0	1,516	—
53	new	BYU	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
54	new	Delaware	Conference USA	1-0	1,516	—
55	new	Georgia	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
56	new	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
57	new	Georgia State	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
58	new	Iowa State	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
59	new	Kansas	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
60	new	Kansas State	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
61	new	Kennesaw State	Conference USA	1-0	1,516	—
62	new	Kentucky	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
63	new	Louisiana	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
64	new	Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
65	new	Maryland	Big Ten	1-0	1,516	—
66	new	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	1-0	1,516	—
67	new	Minnesota	Big Ten	1-0	1,516	—
68	new	Missouri	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
69	new	Navy	American Athletic	1-0	1,516	—
70	new	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
71	new	Purdue	Big Ten	1-0	1,516	—
72	new	Rice	American Athletic	1-0	1,516	—
73	new	San Diego State	Pac-12	1-0	1,516	—
74	new	South Alabama	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
75	new	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	1-0	1,516	—
76	new	Syracuse	ACC	1-0	1,516	—
77	new	Temple	American Athletic	1-0	1,516	—
78	new	Tennessee	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
79	new	Texas Tech	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
80	new	UCF	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
81	new	UConn	FBS Independents	1-0	1,516	—
82	new	Utah	Big 12	1-0	1,516	—
83	new	UTSA	American Athletic	1-0	1,516	—
84	new	Vanderbilt	SEC	1-0	1,516	—
85	new	Virginia Tech	ACC	1-0	1,516	—
86	new	Northwestern	Big Ten	1-0	1,516	—
87	new	Buffalo	Mid-American	1-0	1,511	—
88	new	Florida State	ACC	1-1	1,503	—
89	new	Western Michigan	Mid-American	0-1	1,475	—
90	new	Baylor	Big 12	0-1	1,470	—
91	new	Georgia Tech	ACC	0-1	1,465	—
92	new	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	1-1	1,465	—
93	new	Sam Houston	Conference USA	0-1	1,455	—
94	new	Sacramento State	Mid-American	1-1	1,455	—
95	new	Jacksonville State	Conference USA	1-1	1,448	—
96	new	New Mexico State	Conference USA	1-1	1,448	—
97	new	Louisville	ACC	0-1	1,447	—
98	new	Stanford	ACC	1-1	1,446	—
99	new	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	0-1	1,443	—
100	new	Fresno State	Pac-12	0-1	1,442	—
101	new	Boise State	Pac-12	0-1	1,440	—
102	new	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	0-1	1,440	—
103	new	Liberty	Conference USA	0-1	1,440	—
104	new	TCU	Big 12	0-1	1,436	—
105	new	Florida International	Conference USA	0-1	1,434	—
106	new	Toledo	Mid-American	0-1	1,434	—
107	new	Oregon State	Pac-12	0-1	1,429	—
108	new	Oklahoma State	Big 12	0-1	1,428	—
109	new	Tulane	American Athletic	0-1	1,428	—
110	new	Washington State	Pac-12	0-1	1,428	—
111	new	Akron	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
112	new	Ball State	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
113	new	Boston College	ACC	0-1	1,424	—
114	new	Central Michigan	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
115	new	Clemson	ACC	0-1	1,424	—
116	new	East Carolina	American Athletic	0-1	1,424	—
117	new	Florida Atlantic	American Athletic	0-1	1,424	—
118	new	Kent State	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
119	new	Marshall	Sun Belt	0-1	1,424	—
120	new	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
121	new	Missouri State	Conference USA	0-1	1,424	—
122	new	NC State	ACC	0-1	1,424	—
123	new	North Texas	American Athletic	0-1	1,424	—
124	new	Northern Illinois	Mountain West	0-1	1,424	—
125	new	Ohio	Mid-American	0-1	1,424	—
126	new	Texas State	Pac-12	0-1	1,424	—
127	new	UAB	American Athletic	0-1	1,424	—
128	new	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	0-1	1,424	—
129	new	UTEP	Mountain West	0-1	1,424	—
130	new	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	0-1	1,424	—
131	new	Wyoming	Mountain West	0-1	1,424	—
132	new	Charlotte	American Athletic	0-1	1,419	—
133	new	Wisconsin	Big Ten	0-1	1,410	—
134	new	Rutgers	Big Ten	0-1	1,397	—
135	new	California	ACC	0-1	1,396	—
136	new	Bowling Green	Mid-American	0-1	1,370	—
137	new	Utah State	Pac-12	0-1	1,349	—
138	new	Hawai'i	Mountain West	0-2	1,330	—

2026 season

Points by week. Each week is computed from the games played up to then, so it shows what the rankings said at the time.

Miami
UCLA
Utah
Notre Dame
Georgia
Indiana
Boise State
BYU
LSU
Wake Forest

Results from cfbfastR-data, published Sunday mornings during the season and checked again Tuesday.