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2025 College Football Rankings Recap: Week 11
Texas A&M (9-0) stays on top of The Davis Rankings after week 11 of the 2025 season, with a score of 94.4 out of 100. The rest of the top five: T-2 Indiana, T-2 Ohio State, #4 Alabama, #5 Texas Tech.
Every score comes from the same published formula, explained on the methodology page.
The top 25
The Real Big 10 - trying to keep the losers out... Purdue (#128), 6th week running
| Rank | Team | Record | TDR scoreTDR | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Texas A&M | 9-0 | 94.4 | - |
| T-2 |  Indiana | 10-0 | 91.7 | - |
| T-2 |  Ohio State | 9-0 | 91.7 | - |
| 4 |  Alabama | 8-1 | 87.7 | ▲ 2 |
| 5 |  Texas Tech | 9-1 | 84.7 | ▲ 3 |
| 6 |  Ole Miss | 9-1 | 84.6 | ▼ 1 |
| 7 |  Georgia | 8-1 | 83.8 | ▲ 5 |
| 8 |  Oregon | 8-1 | 83.5 | ▲ 7 |
| 9 |  James Madison | 8-1 | 83.4 | ▲ 4 |
| 10 |  North Texas | 8-1 | 83.0 | ▼ 1 |
| 11 |  Tulane | 7-2 | 79.3 | ▲ 37 |
| 12 |  USC | 7-2 | 79.2 | ▲ 6 |
| 13 |  Michigan | 7-2 | 79.0 | ▲ 3 |
| 14 |  Notre Dame | 7-2 | 78.8 | ▲ 5 |
| 15 |  Texas | 7-2 | 78.5 | ▲ 2 |
| 16 |  Vanderbilt | 8-2 | 77.1 | ▲ 33 |
| 17 |  Houston | 8-2 | 76.9 | ▲ 34 |
| 18 |  Utah | 7-2 | 76.3 | ▲ 2 |
| 19 |  Oklahoma | 7-2 | 76.0 | ▲ 2 |
| 20 |  South Florida | 7-2 | 75.9 | ▲ 36 |
| 21 |  Southern Miss | 7-2 | 75.2 | ▲ 6 |
| 22 |  Pittsburgh | 7-2 | 75.1 | - |
| 23 |  Kennesaw State | 7-2 | 75.0 | ▲ 4 |
| 24 |  Miami | 7-2 | 74.9 | ▲ 35 |
| 25 |  Western Kentucky | 7-2 | 74.7 | ▼ 2 |
Biggest movers
18 teams jumped two or more tiers (10 up, 8 down). 36 more moved a single tier.
Risers
| Team | From | Direction | To | Tiers | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Clemson 4-5 | Sick of It | → | Character Building | ▲ 2 | 102 → T-63 | ▲ 39 |
| After a home win over #64 Florida State (24-10). An upset: Clemson entered with 35.1 TDR points to Florida State's 54.9. Now 4-5. TDR score +19.7: win/loss record +3.8, road-win bonus +0.6. | ||||||
| South Florida 7-2 | Character Building | → | Winning | ▲ 2 | 56 → 20 | ▲ 36 |
| After a home win over #63 UTSA (55-23) in a blowout. As expected: South Florida entered with 59.2 TDR points to UTSA's 55.7. Now 7-2. AP: unranked to #25. TDR score +16.7: win/loss record +1.5. | ||||||
 Georgia Southern 4-5 | Sick of It | → | Character Building | ▲ 2 | 110 → 74 | ▲ 36 |
| After a road win at T-90 App State (25-23) in a one-score game. An upset: Georgia Southern entered with 30.9 TDR points to App State's 39.6. Now 4-5. TDR score +20.3: win/loss record +3.8, road-win bonus +1.0. | ||||||
 Ball State 4-5 | Sick of It | → | Character Building | ▲ 2 | 111 → 75 | ▲ 36 |
| After a home win over #75 Kent State (17-13) in a one-score game. An upset: Ball State entered with 30.7 TDR points to Kent State's 46.0. Now 4-5. TDR score +20.0: win/loss record +3.8, road-win bonus +0.7. | ||||||
| Miami 7-2 | Character Building | → | Winning | ▲ 2 | 59 → 24 | ▲ 35 |
| After a home win over #117 Syracuse (38-10) in a blowout. As expected: Miami entered with 58.2 TDR points to Syracuse's 28.1. Now 7-2. AP: #18 to #16. TDR score +16.7: win/loss record +1.5. | ||||||
and 5 more tier jumpers
Florida International 107→T-72, Houston 51→17, California 81→47, Florida Atlantic 106→T-72, Iowa State 78→46
Fallers
| Team | From | Direction | To | Tiers | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Duke 5-4 | Feeling Good | → | Do We Need to Talk? | ▼ 2 | 39 → 82 | ▼ 43 |
| After a road loss at #38 UConn (34-37) in a one-score game. A coin flip: Duke entered with 65.4 TDR points to UConn's 66.5. Now 5-4. TDR score -19.8: win/loss record -3.8, road-win bonus -0.6. | ||||||
 Iowa 6-3 | Winning | → | Character Building | ▼ 2 | 25 → T-67 | ▼ 42 |
| After a home loss to #15 Oregon (16-18) in a one-score game. As expected: Iowa entered with 73.2 TDR points to Oregon's 82.1. Now 6-3, snapped a 3-game winning streak. TDR score -20.8: win/loss record -4.6, road-win bonus -1.0. | ||||||
 Louisiana Tech 5-4 | Feeling Good | → | Do We Need to Talk? | ▼ 2 | 43 → T-85 | ▼ 42 |
| After a road loss at T-92 Delaware (24-25) in a one-score game. An upset: Louisiana Tech entered with 64.0 TDR points to Delaware's 39.5. Now 5-4. TDR score -19.8: win/loss record -3.8, road-win bonus -0.5. | ||||||
 Washington 6-3 | Winning | → | Character Building | ▼ 2 | 24 → 65 | ▼ 41 |
| After a road loss at #120 Wisconsin (10-13) in a one-score game. An upset: Washington entered with 73.8 TDR points to Wisconsin's 26.7. Now 6-3. AP: #24 to unranked. TDR score -21.1: win/loss record -4.6, road-win bonus -0.7. | ||||||
 San Diego State 7-2 | Winning | → | Character Building | ▼ 2 | 13 → 53 | ▼ 40 |
| After a road loss at #70 Hawai'i (6-38) in a blowout. An upset: San Diego State entered with 82.2 TDR points to Hawai'i's 51.3. Now 7-2, snapped a 6-game winning streak. TDR score -21.8: win/loss record -5.3, road-win bonus -0.9. | ||||||
and 3 more tier jumpers
Miami (OH) 44→84, Kent State 75→114, Liberty 65→102
Weekly awards
Eight awards in four groups, each with one you want and one you don’t. The biggest poll gaps are in Polls vs the data, in detail under Mind the Gap. Season totals for every team are on the Awards page. The week’s game honors are in Games that mattered.
Kitchen
Who sits on top of the rankings, and who is stuck at the bottom.
Mountaineering
Two straight weeks of climbing, and two straight weeks of falling.
Biggest two-week rise, up both weeks
Mind the Gap
Where the polls and the data disagree most.
Data rank far better than any poll's
Poll rank far better than the data's
Polls vs the data, in detail
The biggest gaps between the TDR rank and the best rank in any poll. A team in no poll counts as just outside them, so its gap is a minimum (shown with a +). Gaps under 5 spots are not listed.
Wins don't matter
TDR counts every win.
| Team | TDR | AP | Coaches | CFP | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Texas 8-1 | 10 | NR | NR | NR | ▲ 16+ |
| James Madison 8-1 | 9 | 24 | 25 | NR | ▲ 15 |
| Tulane 7-2 | 11 | NR | NR | NR | ▲ 15+ |
| Houston 8-2 | 17 | NR | NR | NR | ▲ 9+ |
Explaining losses away
Every loss is about 8% of a season.
| Team | TDR | AP | Coaches | CFP | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Missouri 6-3 | 70 | NR | 24 | NR | ▼ 46 |
| Iowa 6-3 | T-67 | NR | NR | 21 | ▼ 46 |
 Tennessee 6-3 | 66 | 21 | 20 | 23 | ▼ 46 |
 Louisville 7-2 | T-50 | 19 | 21 | 20 | ▼ 31 |
Moving Company
The biggest single-week moves up and down the rankings.
Biggest rank rise of the week
Biggest rank fall of the week
Games that mattered
The week’s standout games, each shown once, in the first list it qualifies for. The one exception: a close loss by a top-25 team can be in both Upset of the Week and Winnin’ ain’t easy (one is about the size of the gap, the other about how close it was). Upset of the Week, Winnin’ ain’t easy and Coin Flips are recognitions: they are not trophy-case awards, so they never go on a helmet.
The lowest-entering team to beat a better-ranked one. Ranks are from the week before.
Wisconsin beat Washington13-10#120 vs #2496 spots
California beat Louisville29-26#81 vs #1170 spots
Wake Forest beat 
Virginia16-9#73 vs #766 spots
Hawai'i beat San Diego State38-6#70 vs #1357 spots
Iowa State beat 
TCU20-17#78 vs #2652 spots
A top-25 team in a one-score game against a team ranked far below it: it survived, or it fell. Ranks are from the week before.
- Indiana beat
Penn State27-24#2 vs #109top-25 team survived by 3 - Wisconsin beat Washington13-10#120 vs #24top-25 team fell by 3
- California beat Louisville29-26#81 vs #11top-25 team fell by 3
- Tulane beat
Memphis38-32#48 vs #9top-25 team fell by 6
Teams within 3 points of each other on paper going in, closest finish first. Scores are away, then home.
One-score games involving a top-60 team that are not already above.
Delaware beat Louisiana Tech25-24#58 vs T-85won by 1- Oregon beat Iowa18-16#8 vs T-67won by 2
- Houston beat
UCF30-27#17 vs #101won by 3 - Kennesaw State beat
New Mexico State24-21#23 vs T-116won by 3 
Jacksonville State beat 
UTEP30-27#45 vs #127won by 3
The biggest margins by a team in the current top 50, the two top tiers.
- Notre Dame beat
Navy49-10#14 vs T-50won by 39 - South Florida beat
UTSA55-23#20 vs #95won by 32 
SMU beat 
Boston College45-13T-27 vs #134won by 32
Where the CFP committee and the data disagree
Teams the formula likes more than the committee
| Team | TDR | CFP | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Madison 8-1 | 9 | NR | ▲ 17+ |
| North Texas 8-1 | 10 | NR | ▲ 16+ |
| Tulane 7-2 | 11 | NR | ▲ 15+ |
Teams the committee likes more than the formula
| Team | TDR | CFP | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa 6-3 | T-67 | 21 | ▼ 46 |
| Tennessee 6-3 | 66 | 23 | ▼ 43 |
| Louisville 7-2 | T-50 | 20 | ▼ 30 |
Conference snapshot
Conferences by average team score, with how many of each conference's teams sit in each tier. This is a different measure from the non-conference record ranking (for this week) on the standings page.
| Conference | Avg score | Highest-ranked team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC | 59.0 | 7 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | #1Texas A&M |
| Big Ten | 57.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | T-2Indiana |
| Big 12 | 55.1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | #5Texas Tech |
| ACC | 52.0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | #22Pittsburgh |
| American Athletic | 51.3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | #10North Texas |
| Mountain West | 49.0 | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | #26 UNLV |
| Conference USA | 45.9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | #23Kennesaw State |
| Sun Belt | 45.9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | #9James Madison |
| Mid-American | 40.0 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | T-42 Ohio |
Winning | Feeling Good | Character Building | Do We Need to Talk? | Sick of It | Oh Crap
The most teams in the Winning tier: SEC (7). The most teams in the bottom two tiers (Sick of It and Oh Crap): Conference USA and Sun Belt and Mid-American (5 each).
Not ranked as a conference: FBS Independents (not a conference: Notre Dame #14, UConn #31); Pac-12 (only 2 teams: Washington State #94, Oregon State #129).
Conference race
Who leads each conference and what the title game picture looks like. Ties are shown as ties, never broken: each conference decides them with its own rules. See the full conference standings.
| Conference | Leaders | Title game |
|---|---|---|
| SEC | FinalChampion: Georgia | |
| Big Ten | Indiana 7-0Ohio State 6-0 | FinalChampion: Indiana |
| Big 12 | Texas Tech 6-1 | FinalChampion: Texas Tech |
| ACC | FinalChampion: Duke | |
| American Athletic | Navy 5-1 | FinalChampion: Tulane |
| Mountain West | San Diego State 4-1 Boise State 4-1 | FinalChampion: Boise State |
| Conference USA | Kennesaw State 5-0Jacksonville State 5-0 | FinalChampion: Kennesaw State |
| Sun Belt | East James Madison 6-0West Southern Miss 5-0 | FinalChampion: James Madison |
| Mid-American | FinalChampion: Western Michigan |
Looking ahead to week 12
The biggest games between current top-25 teams, best matchup first.
Show all 58 games between ranked teams
Every game next week between two ranked FBS teams, best matchup first. The matchup score is the two ranks added together plus how far apart they are (lower is better). A coin marks a toss-up by the numbers.
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