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A thrilling week featuring three top-ten matchups gives us a clearer picture.

The top eight stays unmoved, but that will not remain the case after three top-ten matchups this week. This week sorts out several pretenders from the ranks of contenders.

I don’t think I can remember anyone commanding such a strong early position in Heisman Trophy consideration as Lamar Jackson does right now.

This week, conference play begins in earnest. The highest ranked matchup features Michigan State-Wisconsin, but clarity will really begin to take shape with contests in the PAC 12 and SEC. The Big 12, meanwhile, is reeling as it has only one team in the top 25: #18 Baylor.

If you wanted marquee matchups, Week 2 disappointed. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t good football. Highly touted teams struggled against lesser foes, and we saw some of our top 25 fall.

It is incredibly early, but it is always fun to speculate on the Heisman frontrunners. While this list is bound to ebb and flow, here’s our top ten as of now.

An opening week billed as the greatest ever actually lived up to the lofty rhetoric.

It’s here! College football has finally arrived, and there is never a dull Saturday. While there are sure to be plenty of twists and turns, here are five things to watch heading into the 2016 season.

Make no mistake about it, Alabama enters the 2016 college football season head and shoulders above the rest.

The elite players left on the board at the end of Round One flew off quickly once the commissioner launched the draft for Day Two. Who is left on Day Three?

The drama of the 2016 NFL Draft was concentrated in the happenings before the main event with two trades at the top, tracking the “injury sliders” (Myles Jack and Jaylon Smith), and following yet another wild turn in the saga that is Laremy Tunsil.

Each reader of this article plans on printing out this mock draft. I warn you: Don’t!

Unlike next year’s 2017 draft class, which may feature such elite prospects as DE Myles Garrett (TAMU), RB Leonard Fournette (LSU), OT Cam Robinson (Alabama), CB Jabrill Peppers (Michigan), and, of course, QB Deshaun Watson (Clemson), the 2016 draft class lacks those elite prospects that are “sure things.”

There have been far more drama-laden National Signing Days, but the 2016 iteration brought plenty of intrigue.

National Signing Day has arrived! Here are the top 25, as well as who just missed the cut, in our rankings for this year. As you will see, it’s a strong class in the defensive front seven, but it’s not a stellar class overall. Who will emerge with the #1 overall class? What surprises are in store? We find out today.

In what will likely go down as one of the most contested Heisman races in history, the debate features not only three unique players but three contrasting arguments for selecting the award’s winner.

Critics of the playoff are on the verge of being silenced. Unlike last year, seeding may be the only controversy this go-around. That’s if all goes as planned. The real mystery happens if Clemson and/or Alabama suffers a shocking upset in the conference title game. If that happens, expect intense debate over Ohio State, Stanford, and (potentially) North Carolina.

As many as twelve teams still have shots at making the top four, and the SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big 10 each have significant drama left to determine the conference champion. It’s going to be a wild ride!

The top 11 teams plus #14 TCU all see a path to the top four. Surprisingly, the two conferences thought to be at the top of the heap (the SEC and PAC 12) going into the season boast a combined two teams remaining in the hunt with both being from the SEC and still set to play each other.

Four unbeaten teams went down on Saturday in the first weekend when the race for the playoffs got substantially clearer. Still, it is tough to say any of the top 14 are completely out of the race. With numerous quasi-quarterfinal (and potential quasi-quarterfinal matchups) still on the schedule (North Carolina-Clemson, TCU-Baylor, TCU-Oklahoma, Michigan State-Ohio State, Utah-Stanford, Florida-Alabama, Oklahoma-Baylor, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Notre Dame-Stanford, Iowa-Ohio State, and Oklahoma State-Baylor), the best of the college football season is yet to come.

Very little movement occurs in the Top 25 this week, but that changes today. Notably, Alabama and LSU battle for a spot in the playoff. FSU-Clemson and TCU-Oklahoma State are likely elimination games as well.

In what was supposed to be a week that did little to provide a clearer playoff picture, Utah and Florida State took losses that make it difficult to see a path back to playoff contention while Texas A&M now competes thoroughly out of the mix.

Last week boasted some headliner matchups, and this week features none. Still, playoff contenders Clemson, Utah, and Texas A&M all face teams this week with the talent to potentially knock them out of the discussion.

After a week of mild movement, a much clearer playoff picture looks likely after this coming Saturday. Alabama-TAMU, UCLA-Stanford, Michigan-Michigan State, and Florida-LSU are just a few games that will see a team improve playoff positioning or, perhaps, get knocked out of the picture entirely.

Does any team want “elite” status? While a number of schools remain undefeated, the 2015 college football season lacks elite teams at this stage, and, with two of the top four guaranteed to lose, the playoff picture remains wide open.

In a rough week for the state of Alabama, Auburn falls out of the Top 25, likely for the remainder of the season, and Alabama tumbles after a rough loss to Ole Miss. Despite the Yellowhammer State’s troubles, the SEC positions four teams in the top ten.

A wild week that almost saw an historic upset and featured two tight, late-night contests is followed up by what should be great feature matchups such as Auburn-LSU, Georgia Tech-Notre Dame, Alabama-Ole Miss, and BYU-UCLA. Those four top-25 games promise a significant shake-up in next week’s rankings.

After week-one turkey shoots, many of the best teams in America step up in competition this weekend.

The first week of the season sees the team that ended the last game of last season in the top spot back in familiar territory. Auburn seeks to rebound after a disappointing campaign, TCU and Baylor look for revenge after last year’s postseason snubs, and Oregon hopes to keep winning after losing Marcus Mariota.

In 2013, Breitbart Sports ranked Carl Lawson the nation’s top recruit—the only site to do so in a cycle that saw Robert Nkemdiche as the consensus #1. Two years later, Lawson seems poised to prove us right.

A relatively drama-free National Signing Day in 2014 was certainly blown out of the water in 2015 by drama, drama, and (you guessed it) more drama.

In the three seasons we have rated prospects for Breitbart Sports, the Class of 2015 certainly appears to be the deepest—particularly in the Sunshine State. Claiming not only the #1 player in the class, the state of Florida is home to 11 of our top 25 prospects.

1. Florida State 1-0: After a less than stellar opening performance, the Seminoles still possess the trifecta (uber-talented, have the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, and play in the friendly ACC) that keeps them in the top spot. 2. Oregon 1-0: Marcus Mariota

Last year, my rankings placed Carl Lawson, a key part of Auburn’s run to the national title game, at the top, and this year another end, Myles Garrett, finds himself atop the rankings compiled by myself and my colleague, Justin

While Baylor and Miami remain unbeaten and viable title contenders, most of the focus remains on Oregon, Alabama, Florida State, and Ohio State. All four proved why they are worthy of their lofty rankings with dominant victories over their opponents

There is no doubt that the turmoil in the SEC is one of the more unexpected turn of events in the 2013 college football season. Eight weeks into the season, LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina are all