Keeping track of all the ranked games, Playoff committee-style.

College football takes a little while to really get rolling, and Week 4 likely won’t be one of the most important weekends. But every data point is a data point.

Below, we’ll keep track of each top-25 game’s impact, both before and after final scores.

Remember the things the committee has mostly demonstrated it rewards: wins over final top-25 teams, wins over bowl teams, road wins, dominant wins, weirdly excusable losses, being Alabama, and not being a mid-major. It does not care what your opponent’s AP ranking was at kickoff.

All rankings AP, until the committee’s start releasing. All times ET and days Saturday, unless noted. Final scores in italics.

Probably important

Games in which the winning team will likely have a pretty high-quality Week 4 victory by season’s end.

• No. 1 Alabama (3-0) vs. No. 22 Texas A&M (2-1), 3:30 p.m., CBS: The Aggies likely won’t finish with an awesome record, but 7-5 against this schedule would hold up nicely, meaning a quality W for Bama’s on the table.
• No. 2 Georgia (4-0) 43, Missouri (3-1) 29: I think Mizzou’s a very likely bowl team, and this is a comfortable-looking road win for UGA, too.
• No. 7 Stanford (3-0) at No. 20 Oregon (3-0), 8 p.m., ABC: The winner is Washington’s primary Pac-12 challenger. (The Huskies travel to Oregon right after traveling all the way to UCLA and back, 2018’s most Pac-12 scheduling decision.)
• No. 16 UCF (3-0) 56, FAU (2-2) 36: UCF added a nice piece to its New Year’s Six resume, with a mostly comfortable win over a potential Conference USA champ.
• No. 18 Wisconsin (2-1) at Iowa (3-0), 8:30 p.m., Fox: Iowa’s handled business well so far, so this would likely be a great road win for UW. Or an upset, obviously.

Maybe important

Games in which the winner will probably have beaten a decent bowl team (or better).

• No. 5 Oklahoma (3-0) vs. Army (2-1), 7 p.m., OU PPV
• No. 6 LSU (3-0) vs. Louisiana Tech (2-0), 7 p.m., ESPNU: Prettying up the offense numbers would be nice for LSU. The Playoff committee says it likes balanced teams.
• No. 8 Notre Dame (4-0) 56, Wake Forest (2-2) 27: Reasonably impressive road W.
• No. 10 Washington (2-1) vs. Arizona State (2-1), 10:30 p.m., ESPN: The Huskies can avenge last year’s baffling loss and beat the Pac-12 South champ. (ICYMI, this column will be declaring Herm Edwards the Pac-12 South champ until someone else is.)
• No. 14 Mississippi State (3-0) at Kentucky (3-0), 7 p.m., ESPN2: After Week 4, one of these teams will still control its destiny. Wild!
• No. 17 TCU (2-1) at Texas (2-1), 4:30 p.m., Fox: Either a good-bounce back road win for TCU, or Texas emerges as a Big 12 challenger. Settle down, I said “challenger,” not TEXAS IS BACK.
• No. 21 Miami (2-1) vs. FIU (2-1), 3:30 p.m., ESPN2
• Purdue (1-3) 30, No. 23 Boston College (3-1) 13: Not a huge deal, but an undefeated team downed.
• No. 24 Michigan State (1-1) at Indiana (3-0), 7:30 p.m., BTN: Pretty nice win AND a spit bucket available for either team.

Probably not important

The committee doesn’t really care about wins vs. FCS teams, teams with final losing records, and so forth. Some of these underdogs could still bowl, of course.

• No. 3 Clemson (3-0) at Georgia Tech (1-2), 3:30 p.m., ABC
• No. 4 Ohio State (3-0) vs. Tulane (1-2), 3:30 p.m., BTN
• No. 9 Auburn (2-1) vs. Arkansas (1-2), 7:30 p.m., SECN
• No. 10 Penn State (4-0) 63, Illinois (2-2) 24
• No. 12 West Virginia (2-0) vs. Kansas State (2-1), 3:30 p.m., ESPN
• No. 13 Virginia Tech (2-0) at Old Dominion (0-3), 3:30 p.m., CBSSN
• No. 15 Oklahoma State (3-0) vs. Texas Tech (2-1), 7 p.m., FS1
• No. 19 Michigan (3-1) 56, Nebraska (0-3) 10
• No. 25 BYU (2-1) vs. FCS McNeese State, 6 p.m., WatchESPN