College Football Playoff 2025 Rankings Released for Week 14 with Top Risers, Fallers

Crunch time has arrived.

With just one week remaining in the 2025 regular season, positioning in the College Football Playoff rankings is more important than ever. And the latest batch of rankings, which was released Tuesday, saw very little movement with the majority of the nation's top teams winning Saturday.

Here is a look at where everyone stands in the updated Top 25, which looks different than the projected bracket since the five highest-ranked conference champions earn automatic bids. The four highest-ranked teams also receive first-round byes regardless of their conference-championship status.

1. Ohio State
2. Indiana
3. Texas A&M
4. Georgia
5. Texas Tech
6. Oregon
7. Ole Miss
8. Oklahoma
9. Notre Dame
10. Alabama
11. BYU
12. Miami
13. Utah
14. Vanderbilt
15. Michigan
16. Texas
17. USC
18. Virginia
19. Tennessee
20. Arizona State
21. SMU
22. Pittsburgh
23. Georgia Tech
24. Tulane
25. Arizona

College football fans hoping for chaos were disappointed this past week.

Nobody in the top 14 from the previous rankings lost, which largely preserved the CFP picture heading into rivalry week. Oregon's win over USC was the most notable result, as it all but eliminated the three-loss Trojans and bolstered the Ducks' resume with an impressive win they were largely missing.

Whether Oregon would still be in with a loss to Washington in its final game remains to be seen, but it now has more of a margin for error with an additional high-profile win.

Oregon Beats USC

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Elsewhere, some of the top contenders in the Big 12 survived with Utah outlasting Kansas State 51-47 in an offensive battle and BYU going on the road and defeating Cincinnati 26-14 in a game that was a six-point margin before a last-minute touchdown.

Perhaps the biggest CFP mystery at this point is the ACC. Miami looks like its best national contender, but the Hurricanes are looking up at Virginia, Pittsburgh, SMU and Georgia Tech in the conference standings even after the Yellow Jackets lost to the Panthers on Saturday.

Miami's head-to-head win over Notre Dame figures to remain a talking point through the final rankings, especially if it is not the ACC's automatic qualifier by missing out on the conference championship game. But first it has to survive a difficult road test against Pittsburgh to close out the regular season.

That is far from the only game with CFP implications.

No. 1 Ohio State has likely done enough to clinch a spot in the 12-team field, but it has the opportunity to set up a highly anticipated Big Ten championship game against No. 2 Indiana with a win over Michigan. More importantly for the Buckeyes, that would end a four-game losing streak against their hated rivals and eliminate the Wolverines from CFP contention.

OSU Overpowers Rutgers ⛽️

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There are likely plenty of two-loss contenders around the country hoping Ohio State takes care of business in that one because a two-loss Michigan team with a win over the nation's top-ranked team would be quite enticing for the CFP selection committee as an at-large candidate.

But those two-loss contenders have to take care of business themselves for it to matter.

That means Alabama avoiding a letdown against Auburn, Oklahoma defeating LSU, Notre Dame beating Stanford and Vanderbilt handling Tennessee. Even some of the one-loss contenders like Oregon (at Washington), Ole Miss (at Mississippi State), Georgia (at Georgia Tech) and Texas Tech (at West Virginia) need to avoid a second loss if they don't want to sweat out the selection process.

Chaos might not have happened this past week in college football.

But it is always right around the corner.