Ranking CFB's 39 unbeaten teams: Who is most likely to stay that way?

What's the aged Guy Fieri enactment from "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"? "Slow down and instrumentality a look around"? College football's superpower is its implicit enormity, and if you search, you'll ever find a chaotic crippled worthy watching.

Some weeks, however, you don't person to effort precise hard to find them. Week 3 of the 2025 play fundamentally smacked america successful the look with them.

Whether you considered Texas A&M-Notre Dame oregon Georgia-Tennessee the biggest crippled of the week, it didn't substance -- they some went down to the ligament with backmost heroics and peculiar teams heartbreaks. And 2 of the sport's wildest rivalries, Pitt-West Virginia and Ole Miss-Arkansas, some gave america classics too. Throw successful a Division III Hail Mary and a brace of stunning HBCU endings, and conscionable astir the lone happening we were missing Saturday was a late-night thriller.

After 2 consecutive chaotic weekends, 39 FBS teams stay unbeaten. Obviously immoderate of those teams person much blemishes and weaknesses than others, but until you lose, you haven't lost! SP+ projects an mean of 0.95 of these teams reaching 12-0 -- it mightiness arsenic good beryllium your team!

All 39 of these teams are playoff contenders arsenic agelong arsenic their nonaccomplishment file zeros remain. As has go contented astatine this point, let's fertile each the remaining unbeaten teams 3 weeks into the season.

Ranking each 39 unbeaten teams

1. Oregon (3-0)

SP+ and FPI rankings: 2nd and first, respectively

Odds of reaching 12-0, per SP+: 10.4%

What the Ducks did successful Week 3: def. Northwestern 34-14

It took Dan Lanning's Ducks a small portion to enactment Northwestern distant aboriginal Saturday, chiefly due to the fact that their opponents were embarking connected a bid of lengthy (and yet scoreless) drives. But they were ne'er successful danger, and they've spent astir of 3 games successful kick-butt-and-take-names mode.

2. Ohio State (3-0)

SP+ and FPI rankings: 3rd and second

Odds of reaching 12-0, per SP+: 11.5%

What the Buckeyes did successful Week 3: def. Ohio, 37-9

Ohio is bully capable that I expected the Bobcats to unit the Buckeyes to enactment successful a shift, but I can't accidental I expected "one-score crippled with 22 minutes left." Ohio State deed the state and enactment this 1 to bed, but this squad intelligibly hasn't reached its last signifier yet.

3. Penn State (3-0)

SP+ and FPI rankings: archetypal and seventh

Odds of reaching 12-0, per SP+: 11.2%

What the Nittany Lions did successful Week 3: def. Villanova, 52-6

Penn State pulled a Penn State connected Saturday, starting dilatory against a lesser hostile earlier yet steamrolling them. The Nittany Lions person yet to look a squad ranked amended than 112th successful SP+, but that changes precise soon: After a Week 4 bye, they'll big Oregon successful a loaded Week 5.

4. Texas A&M (3-0)

SP+ and FPI rankings: 20th and 15th

Odds of reaching 12-0, per SP+: 0.6%

What the Aggies did successful Week 3: def. No. 8 Notre Dame, 41-40

Even arsenic idiosyncratic who leans heavy connected stats, I'm allowed to perceive to my gut sometimes, and my gut has been telling maine A&M is for real since the preseason. If I believed that earlier the Aggies' precocious rally successful South Bend connected Saturday ...