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Rating Each Top 25 College Football Team as Contender or Pretender

The first two weeks of the college football season have provided a fair amount of surprises and strong performances from the nation's top teams.

A few teams have already pulled out into the front of the race for the College Football Playoff with big wins over quality opponents, while others have seen their stock plummet thanks to some bad outings.

With a weird Week 2 in the books, let's go through the latest AP Top 25 poll and break each team down with one fundamental question—playoff contender or playoff pretender?

To be completely fair to all of these quality ranked teams, these answers are based solely on a small sample size of two weekends of action.