Typically I’d wait until all teams are connected to all other teams by wins or losses before producing a ranking, showing where each team falls in the network of wins and losses for all of FBS football. That’s not going to happen this year due to a number of conferences playing only conference games. What we can do as of right now is provide two rankings because there are two separate networks: one of the SEC and one of ACC/Big12/AAC/CUSA/Sun Belt/Independents which I’ll label the “Big Group”.
Big Group Top 25 (Explanation)
1. BYU
2. Clemson
3. North Carolina
4. Oklahoma State
5. Miami
6. SMU
7. Boston College
8. Louisiana-Lafayette
9. Virginia Tech
10. Notre Dame
11. NC State
12. Coastal Carolina
13. Marshall
14. Liberty
15. UCF
16. Cincinnati
17. Iowa State
18. Tulsa
19. UAB
20. Air Force
21. Houston
22. Memphis
23. Louisiana Tech
23. Troy
25. Kansas State
25. Pittsburgh
SEC Top 5
1. Alabama
1. Georgia
3. Texas A&M
4. Auburn
4. Florida