The College Football Playoff Selection Committee's first top 25 rankings of the 2025 season arrive Tuesday night, giving us a glimpse at how this group views the nation's top teams based on a variety of factors.

We'll also get a detailed explanation of "record strength," a new metric designed to further credit teams for how they perform against their schedule. It's supposed to provide an extra boost for beating quality teams while lessening the penalty for losses against tougher opponents.

According to CFP guidelines , the selection committee "ranks the teams based on the members' evaluation of the teams' performance on the field, using conference championships won, strength of schedule, head-to-head results and comparison of results against common opponents to decide among teams

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