ESPN Releases Major Shakeup To SP+ Top 25 Rankings After Week 7

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ESPN Releases Major Shakeup To SP+ Top 25 Rankings After Week 7

College football’s wild Week 7 slate has resulted in a pretty massive shakeup to ESPN‘s SP+ Top 25 power rankings.

With five of the top seven teams in last week’s AP Poll losing over the weekend, Bill Connelly was forced to make some significant updates to the latest analytical rankings — although the top two teams remain the same.

SP+ is a measure of CFB efficiency created by Football Outsiders in 2008 that’s intended to be “predictive and forward-facing,” and was created to measure the most sustainable and predictable aspects of the sport.

ESPN releases updated Week SP+ Top 25 after Week 7

ESPN actually released the SP+ rankings for all 138 FBS teams. But here’s a look at the Top 25 as the College Football Playoff field begins to take shape:

Ohio State (6-1) – 26.8
Georgia (6-1) – 26.5
Miami (6-0) – 25.3 (+1)
Notre Dame (6-1) – 24.8 (-1)
Indiana (6-1) – 23.6
LSU (5-2) – 22.6 (+3)
Texas Tech (6-0) – 21.9 (+3)
Texas (4-2) – 21.1 (-2)
BYU (6-0) – 20.6 (+2)
Utah (6-0) – 19.4 (-3)
Oregon (4-2) – 18.8 (+1)
Alabama (5-2) – 18.5 (-4)
Tennessee (6-1) – 17.5 (+2)
Ole Miss (5-1) – 17.1 (+2)
Arizona (5-1) – 15.7 (+4)
Nebraska (5-2) – 15.6 (-2)
USC (6-1) – 15.3 (+4)
Houston (5-1) – 14.3 (+2)
UCLA (6-0) – 14.0 (-1)
Wake Forest (6-1) – 13.6 (+15)
Missouri (5-2) – 13.6 (-8)
Iowa (5-1) – 13.6 (+2)
Michigan (4-2) – 13.0
Louisville (4-3) – 12.9 (+1)
SMU (5-1) – 12.9 (+1)

Connelly also handed out some midseason awards. Including Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith as the halfway Heisman, UCLA’s Bob Chesney as the halfway Coach of the Year and Texas‘ Colin Simmons as the halfway Defensive Heisman.

This story was originally published October 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM.