This is the current-form lens: every program re-ranked and re-banded on today's in-season SP+, not on August's projection. The big number is the team's rating right now; the small ▲▼ is how many places it has moved against its August projected rank, and a ↑↓ badge marks programs currently rating outside the band their projection bought. The bands themselves never move — Elite is still ≥ 80.0 — only which rating gets banded. The letter is the live grade (current SP+ measured against the frozen August projection); early in the season SP+ still leans on its preseason priors, so most letters sit near C and rank movement is the more informative signal. The August board remains the accountability record — the projection each team is graded against is fixed for the season and never revised by results. Switch to it above.

Every FBS program placed on a 0–100 projection scale for 2026, derived from preseason SP+, returning production, a 2-year recruiting composite, a small portal residual (standardized net-flow), and a symmetric ±1 tiered coach signal. The letter on each card is the live 2026 grade — current in-season SP+ measured against the frozen August projection, banded on the same A–F scale as the 2025 retrospective; it recomputes weekly while the projection and tier stay frozen. Early in the season SP+ still leans on its preseason priors, so most live grades sit near C. Tiers are absolute bands, not curves — a team moves between tiers on absolute changes in projection, not relative shifts against peers. Tiebreaker: when two teams share a projection to one decimal, the higher preseason SP+ wins. Tier ranks are global — filtering by conference doesn't renumber them, so each program's national position stays visible, not just its within-league order.