College Football Analyst Predicts Tuesday's AP Poll Top 25 Rankings

Week 1 of the 2026 college football season will wrap up on Monday night, when Florida State takes on SMU.

Most of the country has already been put into action. Teams like Ohio State, Texas and LSU won it blowout fashion. Meanwhile, teams like Oregon and Michigan barely escaped inferior opponents with victories.

It’s early, obviously, but the College Football Playoff picture will soon start to take shape.

What will the new Associated Press Top 25 rankings look like when they come out on Tuesday morning?

One college football analyst has already made his pick.

CBS Sports college football analyst Brad Crawford has made his projection for what Tuesday’s college football Top 25 rankings will look like.

Early look at AP Poll top 25

Crawford has made his projections for what Tuesday morning’s AP Poll Top 25 rankings will look like:

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

Others receiving votes: Florida, Boise State, Louisville, UCLA, Arizona, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Pitt, Colorado.

The official Associated Press Top 25 rankings will come out on Tuesday, September 8, following the final Week 1 games on Monday evening.