Week 9 of the college football season saw some notable changes in ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI). The FPI is a computer-based system that calculates rankings based on strength of schedule and both offensive and defensive efficiency. After the action in Week 9, several teams got boosts after big wins.

View the 2025 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season.

Another busy weekend of college football action around the country is in the books, and the world is now waiting for the updated Top 25 rankings ahead of Week 10. With Week 9 in the books, ESPN has already dropped its updated FPI Top 25 rankings after a busy weekend where some teams continued to establish themselves

Vanderbilt, Houston and Miami might have just seen their College Football Playoff hopes come crashing down on Saturday.

Below are the current SP+ rankings, last updated after the games of Oct. 25. What is SP+? In a single sentence, it's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency that I originally created at Football Outsiders in 2008.

Elsewhere in the CBS Sports 136, we see some notable moves up for one-loss Big 12 teams Cincinnati (up four spots) and Houston (up seven spots), as each logged key wins in conference play over the weekend and continue to build their case as top-20 teams nationally with their 7-1 records.

Reaching the final month of the college football regular season, the Oregon Ducks have the potential to be featured for a third time as ESPN's College GameDay's spotlighted game of the week with an old rival from back in the Pac-12 Conference days.

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