The 2025 college football season is past the halfway point, as we're hurtling towards the first College Football Playoff rankings release of the year. What a year it's been.

The chaos and unpredictability rivals that of any season we've seen since the turn of the century. For instance, Indiana, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt all landed inside the top 10 of the latest AP Top 25 poll.

BYU is creeping close at No. 11. No. 16 Virginia is within earshot of the playoff and No. 18 USF has a better strength of record than some legacy programs like Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas.

So it felt appropriate to try and wrangle the unpredictable. Such a weird season, naturally, lends itself to overreactions. While we here at CBS Sports have been overreacting to each college football weekend for a whil

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