Just Another College Football Ranking

 I'm doing it again....

Iowa's Tyler Goodson and Spencer Petras celebrate during a 34-6 drubbing of Indiana Saturday (Rebecca F. Miller // The Cedar Rapids Gazette)

This year, I'm trying a bit of a different formula to come up with my weekly Top 25. It'll be interesting to see how things work out, but I'm emphasizing teams who beat teams on their own level in addition to my traditional metric of measuring teams' performances against the spread. In other words, boo cupcakes!

So, without further ado, Clayton's 2021 Week One College Football Top 25:

1. Iowa (1-0)
2. Michigan State (1-0)
3. Kansas State (1-0)
4. Virginia Tech (1-0)
5. Alabama (1-0)
6. Penn State (1-0)
7. Georgia (1-0)
8. Mississippi (1-0)
9. Maryland (1-0)
10. Purdue (1-0)
11. Ohio State (1-0)
12. Notre Dame (1-0)
13. UCLA (2-0)
14. Rutgers (1-0)
15. N.C. State (1-0)
16. Syracuse (1-0)
17. Northern Illinois (1-0)
18. Texas Tech (1-0)
19. Utah State (1-0)
20. Michigan (1-0)
21. Auburn (1-0)
22. Texas (1-0)
23. Texas San Antonio (1-0)
24. Charlotte (1-0)
25. Southern California (1-0)