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College football's post-Week 1 SP+ rankings

Things went according to plan in week 1 of the college football season ... aside from where they went dramatically astray. Half of the week's games finished with scoring margins 10 or fewer points from SP+ projections, which is about normal. But Texas State also beat Baylor by 11 (42.6 points away from the projected margin), Oklahoma humiliated Arkansas State by 73 (37.2 points away), Duke made Clemson look like end-of-Tommy-Bowden-era Clemson (21-point win, 36.0 points off) and, of course, Colorado upset defending national runner-up TCU (three-point win, 29.1 points off).

Even with preseason projections still making up the vast percentage of the ratings because of a tiny sample of games, we still saw some teams make pretty significant movement heading into Week 2.