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The first regular-season 2023 college football rankings won’t be released on Sunday like usual even though Week 1 has already provided enough thrills to know there will be some shake-ups coming in the AP Top 25 poll. The rankings are delayed until Tuesday because we still have two games left through Monday before Week 1 officially concludes. And while that may be the case, it’s no reason to wait with our weekly check-in on how Saturday’s results will impact the reshuffled college football rankings.
Given Week 0 results will also be considered when the college football rankings are updated, two top-25 teams can already claim 2-0 records with No. 6 USC and No. 13 Notre Dame adding victories on Saturday.
Though the week’s schedule features only one matchup between ranked teams — that game is Sunday night’s battle between No. 5 LSU and No. 8 Florida State — there are more than a handful of teams where we believe voters are going to make adjustments after Week 1 results. The most obvious would be adjustments for ranked teams that lost, but there’s also going to be some minor moves for teams that have answered preseason questions emphatically with their performances on the field.
There’s also at least one case where a top team may see a slight step back in the rankings even in the wake of a win, as their margin and manner of victory didn’t match what many expected going into the game.
Voters will have to consider how to handle previously unranked Colorado after Deion Sanders led the…
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