The No. 1 team is locked in, but the selection committee faces tough decisions beyond that for the inaugural top 25 reveal in the expanded 12-team playoff era.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where Texas A&M can at least afford a couple new defensive analysts to work on tacklingWhether it’s myopia or savvy counterprogramming, the first College Football Playoff selection committee rankings drop Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, smack dab in the middle of the country deciding its future course. Both results will be contentious.
So when the CFP top 25 shows multiple teams from the SEC and/or Big Ten in the top four, understand that they won’t be positioned that way in the bracket. The most likely top-four seeds, at present, are the champions of the Power 4 conferences—the SEC, Big Ten, ACC and Big 12. This is, as Rece Davis would say, a fluid situation. Teams could move from A-list to B-list and vice versa in the weeks ahead.
This will be the first big laundry test for the committee—do they bow down to tradition, or acknowledge what’s happened this season? The upstart Hoosiers are the lone unbeaten of those three, but have not beaten a currently ranked team. The blueblood Buckeyes and Longhorns each have a loss to a quality team . Ohio State has the best win of the three, at Penn State. Texas’s best win is at No. 24 Vanderbilt, a remarkable turn of events.
And how about SMU vs. Penn State? Unlike the Mustangs, the Nittany Lions have not beaten a currently ranked team. Like the Mustangs, they have a loss to a ranked opponent. Does Penn State get a laundry bump? The longer Texas A&M remains a viable playoff contender, the more important that win will be. The Dash currently has Notre Dame as the last at-large selection in the field.First things first, let’s see where the top teams from the G5 land Tuesday. Expect Boise State to be the highest ranked, probably followed by Army. Tulane and Louisiana could factor in as well.
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