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Sports This is the weekly AP, CBS, and RPI-based FBS rankings of G6 college football programs—a dedicated formal assessment of on-field quality. Methodology: The 70 FBS college football programs from the Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the AP Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll. The RPI Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams.

Methodology: The 70 FBS college football programs from the Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the AP Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll. The RPI Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams. The curator of these rankings, Seth Abramson, does not vote; he was a I-AA (“FCS”) college football reporter at the nation’s oldest college newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth, in the 1990s, and in the 2010s covered the FBS at SB Nation.

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Methodology: Teams from the college football Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the Associated Press Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll. The RPI Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams. The curator of these rankings, Seth Abramson, does not vote; he was a I-AA (“FCS”) college football reporter at the nation’s oldest college newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth, in the 1990s, and in the 2010s covered the FBS with SB Nation.

Methodology: Teams from the college football Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the Associated Press Poll and USA TodayCoaches Poll. The RPI Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams. The curator of these rankings, Seth Abramson, does not vote; he was a I-AA (“FCS”) college football reporter at the nation’s oldest college newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth, in the 1990s, and in the 2010s covered the FBS with SB Nation.

Methodology: Teams from the college football Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the Associated Press Poll and USA TodayCoaches Poll. The RPI Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams. The curator of these rankings, Seth Abramson, does not vote; he was a I-AA (“FCS”) college football reporter at the nation’s oldest college newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth, in the 1990s, and in the 2010s covered the FBS with SB Nation.

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Methodology: Teams from the college football Group of Six (“G6”) receive one vote for each vote they receive in the Associated Press Poll and USA TodayCoaches Poll. The CBS Sports Ranking of all FBS programs determines the order of the remaining Top 25 teams. The curator of these rankings, Seth Abramson, does not vote; he was a I-AA (“FCS”) college football reporter at the nation’s oldest college newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth, in the 1990s, and in the 2010s covered the FBS with SB Nation.