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PERMANENT BOARD · SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 · WEEK 5
THE ROAD
POSITION.
If everybody played next Saturday, which 25 teams would we believe in most?
This page preserves the human-readable late-September board. The current presentation may move; these rankings and reasons do not.
- 01 SEC Texas A pressured road finish keeps Texas first.
- 02 SEC Georgia Georgia made the second chair look too small.
- 03 SEC Florida Florida answered the question our No. 18 asked too quietly.
- 04 Independent Notre Dame A road rout keeps Notre Dame in title weather.
- 05 SEC Alabama The offense is loud; the defensive bill got smaller.
- 06 ACC Miami Miami handled the assignment and waits for a sharper one.
- 07 Big Ten Indiana The champion survived; the margin invites a harder look.
- 08 Big Ten Ohio State Ohio State is moving from reputation toward repair.
- 09 SEC LSU The response to Oxford was emphatic.
- 10 Big 12 BYU BYU keeps its place while the live evidence catches up.
- 11 Big 12 Texas Tech The scoreboard finally supplied separation.
- 12 SEC Ole Miss Oxford counted; Gainesville set its limit.
- 13 SEC Mississippi State The road surprise now has a home follow-up.
- 14 Big Ten Oregon The repair job has a road receipt.
- 15 Big 12 Utah Utah keeps building its floor on the road.
- 16 Big Ten Iowa The last play made the road argument real.
- 17 SEC Tennessee The loss to No. 1 still carries useful evidence.
- 18 Big 12 Houston Houston made the close loss look less accidental.
- 19 Big Ten USC The defensive bill came due against Oregon.
- 20 ACC SMU SMU steadied the record without closing the case.
- 21 SEC Kentucky Kentucky’s A&M win deserves a seat at this table.
- 22 BIG TEN UCLA An unbeaten road rout earns a first PointCast look.
- 23 BIG 12 Oklahoma State A road win makes the comeback visible.
- 24 SEC Missouri The first loss narrows Missouri’s opening claim.
- 25 Pac-12 Boise State The Broncos return with a credible road margin.
WHAT AGED WELL?