Week 10 of the 2025 season is a pivotal point on the college football calendar. Not only does it mark the time at which almost every school in the nation will have played eight games -- or two-thirds of their schedule -- it also heralds the arrival of the first College Football Playoff rankings reveal.

The Alabama Crimson Tide survived a close call at the end of a brutal October schedule to stay in the hunt for a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff.

The AP Poll has the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes on top, but if you ask one insider, the best team isn't the Buckeyes. It's the Indiana Hoosiers.

Elsewhere in the CBS Sports 136, we see some notable moves up for one-loss Big 12 teams Cincinnati (up four spots) and Houston (up seven spots), as each logged key wins in conference play over the weekend and continue to build their case as top-20 teams nationally with their 7-1 records.