College Football Rankings: Projecting Sunday's Week 7 AP Top 25 Poll

AP voters got their last light Saturday of the college football season. Between conferences that have not started, COVID postponements and scheduled off-dates, nearly half of this week’s Associated Press Top 25 teams were not in action.

Of the teams that were in the action, the top of the poll led the storylines. Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Tigers took blowout to a new level with a 73-7 win over Georgia Tech, trying to make a case to stay at No. 1 despite the result in Tuscaloosa.

Two ranked SEC teams lost to unranked opponents. No. 15 Auburn lost 30-22 at South Carolina. No. 18 Tennessee got blown out 34-7 by unranked Kentucky. For both teams, it’s loss No. 2 in only four games. At this point, a 2-2 record gets you bounced from the rankings with so many 0-0 placeholders from the Big Ten and Pac-12.

Here’s how we project Sunday’s new AP Top 25

Alabama (4-0) def. No. 3 Georgia, 41-24
Clemson (5-0) def. Georgia Tech, 73-7
Ohio State (0-0), did not play
Notre Dame (4-0) def. Louisville, 12-7
Oklahoma State (3-0), did not play
Georgia (3-1) lost to No. 2 Alabama, 41-24
Cincinnati (3-0), did not play
Penn State (0-0), did not play
Texas A&M (3-1) def. Mississippi State, 28-14
Florida (2-1), did not play
Oregon (0-0), did not play
Miami (4-1) def. Pittsburgh, 31-19
BYU (5-0) def. Houston, 43-26
Wisconsin (0-0), did not play
SMU (5-0) def. Tulane, 37-34
North Carolina (3-0) lost to Florida State, 31-28
Michigan (0-0), did not play
Iowa State (3-1), did not play
Kansas State (3-1), did not play
Virginia Tech (3-1) def. Boston College, 40-14
Minnesota (0-0), did not play
USC (0-0), did not play
Coastal Carolina (4-0) def. No. 21 Louisiana, 30-27
Marshall (4-0) def. Louisiana Tech, 35-17
NC State (4-1) def. Duke, 31-20

Projected to drop out of the AP Top 25: No. 15 Auburn (2-2) lost to South Carolina, 30-22; No. 18 Tennessee (2-2) lost to Kentucky, 34-7; No. 21 Louisiana (3-1) lost to Coastal Carolina, 30-27