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 3

#	Move	Team	Conference	Record	Points	Week
1	▲2	Mississippi State	SEC	3-0	1,731	+66.5
2	▲9	Miami	ACC	3-0	1,724	+95.5
3	▲4	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	3-0	1,717	+68.5
4	▼2	Alabama	SEC	3-0	1,703	+38.4
5	▼4	USC	Big Ten	4-0	1,701	+19.4
6	▼1	UCLA	Big Ten	3-0	1,693	+34.2
7	▼3	Penn State	Big Ten	3-0	1,692	+27.3
8	▲31	BYU	Big 12	3-0	1,689	+104.8
9	▲20	Virginia Tech	ACC	3-0	1,686	+94.5
10	▼4	North Dakota State	Mountain West	4-0	1,678	+26.3
11	▼3	Duke	ACC	3-0	1,676	+34.4
12	▲3	Missouri	SEC	3-0	1,673	+53.1
13	▲12	Texas	SEC	3-0	1,670	+68.9
14	▲12	Ole Miss	SEC	3-0	1,669	+70.6
15	▲19	Florida	SEC	3-0	1,663	+77.0
16	▲30	West Virginia	Big 12	3-0	1,656	+84.2
17	–	Pittsburgh	ACC	3-0	1,655	+35.0
18	▲27	James Madison	Sun Belt	3-0	1,643	+71.0
19	▲4	Tennessee	SEC	3-0	1,642	+35.2
20	▲28	Georgia	SEC	3-0	1,641	+70.9
21	▲6	Michigan	Big Ten	3-0	1,638	+42.7
22	▼10	Tulsa	American Athletic	3-0	1,636	+8.0
23	▼10	South Florida	American Athletic	3-0	1,635	+8.1
24	▲6	Texas Tech	Big 12	3-0	1,626	+36.8
25	▲22	Kansas State	Big 12	3-0	1,622	+51.3

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

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