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College Football Playoff to Release First Rankings of a Chaotic Season

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“The one that’s probably most significant in everyone’s mind is the lack of those marquee intersectional games,” Hancock said. “Just look back at the games that were important to the committee through the years — Notre Dame-Georgia, the two Oklahoma-Ohio State games, Oregon-Auburn — and the committee won’t have that this year.”

Among the planned games this year that were lost: Alabama-Southern California, Ohio State at Oregon and a Wisconsin-Notre Dame showdown at Lambeau Field.

There are no 2020-specific rules for the committee.

That’s right.

“It’s in the discretion of each of the 13 members, and keep in mind no one knows how many games any team will play this season,” Hancock said. “Each individual member considers what’s most important to him or her. People talk about the committee as a singular unit; really, it’s plural: It’s 13 members making individual decisions.”

Although conferences have imposed requirements for teams to

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Final rankings before first College Football Playoff committee reveal

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This will be the last week of bowl projections without the benefit of the College Football Playoff rankings as a guide to see how teams in this imperfect seasons are seen by the committee.

Ohio State holds off Indiana to stay towards the top of the Amway Coaches Poll

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There should be little mystery at the top with Alabama and Notre Dame occupying the first two positions.

Ohio State has been impressive in four games. Do the Buckeyes have enough data points to justify putting them ahead of Clemson, Texas A&M or Florida? Probably, but maybe not. The Aggies and Gators both have wins against teams ranked in the top five at the time of the victories. Ohio State only has the one quality win,last week’s narrow defeat of Indiana.

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College Football Playoff rankings are coming. What you need to know.

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USA TODAY Sports’ Paul Myerberg breaks down the latest Amway Coaches Poll.

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Members of the College Football Playoff selection committee already have descended on Grapevine, Texas, and after deliberating into Monday evening will reconvene Tuesday to complete the debut rankings for the 2020 season.

Even as Zoom calls and remote interviews have become the standard in college football, the committee is scheduled to meet in person each week through Dec. 20, when the group will reveal the makeup of the national semifinals and New Year’s Six bowls.

If the routine feels normal, the deliberations will be anything but. Never in the history of the postseason format has the committee needed to take so many factors into account, including the widespread elimination of non-conference play and the variety in games played across every Power Five league.

It’s lent the proceedings an air of uncertainty and unpredictability. (It is

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Top 5 Reasons to Not Expand the College Football Playoff | Bleacher Report

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College football is as close to perfection as any sport will come.

You’ve got vital games throughout the season and elite teams not afraid to step out of their conferences (in a normal year) to play excellent outfits from other Power Five conferences. Then, when the stars align like they did for the LSU Tigers a season ago, you get to play for a title in a free-for-all College Football Playoff.

In most cases, there are division champions and conference title games, and the best of the best get to have their shot at one another in a four-team playoff at the end of the year.

Are there some flaws? Of course.

Every year, there is discussion about which teams are best and how the committee is going to rank everybody. But most years, there is little question which teams should be left standing

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When are the College Football Playoff rankings released? Time, channel for first CFP selection show in 2020

[email protected]_84 November 24, 2020

The winding, halting 2020 college football season has brought us just hours away from the first set of College Football Playoff rankings.

What will that top four look like? The top three teams will assuredly consist of some ordering of Alabama, Notre Dame and Ohio State, all of whom are undefeated and have beaten top-five opponents this season. It’s the fourth spot where the Playoff committee must make some tough decisions.

Will it go with 7-1 Clemson, which lost an overtime thriller without Trevor Lawrence to Notre Dame earlier this year? That would set the ACC championship game up as a potential Playoff play-in game, though it’s worth wondering whether the Irish could get in if they split with the Tigers. The other likely candidate at No. 4 is 6-1 Florida, whose only defeat this year is to one-loss Texas A&M and who seems destined for a collision with Alabama

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How the College Football Playoff works

[email protected]_84 November 23, 2020

Well after that, a system of two polls picked champions, sometimes two different champions. Peak absurdity came in 1978, when one poll declared Southern California the winner while the other named Alabama, even though Southern California had manhandled Alabama in Alabama that year. All the confusion finally gave way to a Bowl Championship Series from 1998-2013, in which a phalanx of humans and computers would choose two teams to play in one championship game.

Eventually, or very eventually, that gave way to the current system, the College Football Playoff.

How does it work?

It works complicatedly, as with the rest of the 151-year history of college football. A 13-member committee meets five or six or seven times per autumn in a gaudy hotel near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. That committee studies the weekend gone by and issues top-25 rankings for five straight Tuesday nights, usually through late October, all

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Opening arguments for College Football Playoff consideration

[email protected]_84 November 23, 2020

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“Careful What You Wish For” T-shirts sold separately in Lincoln):

FIRST QUARTER: PLAYOFF OPENING ARGUMENTS

The College Football Playoff selection committee meets this week and will release its first rankings Tuesday night. The fact that this largely older group is insisting on meeting in person, amid a pandemic, every week, when the only rankings that matter come out December 20th, is one of the things that makes college football the most vexing sport on the planet. Hopefully this goes off without infection. We’ll see.

As has been discussed in this space previously this fall, the committee has a thankless task on its hands. So in an effort to help, The Dash has taken the liberty of writing position statements for each of the most important teams under playoff consideration. Here is what you need to know, committee, members; just

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An Updated Look at BYU Football’s Path to the College Football Playoff

[email protected]_84 November 22, 2020

For a third consecutive week, BYU did not receive a lot of help from the teams ranked above them in the AP poll. Following yesterday’s games, ESPN updated BYU’s chances to make the College Football Playoff. BYU’s odds of making the College Football Playoff dropped from 25.1% to 14.1%. Earlier today, we talked about the games that helped BYU’s CFP chances and the games that hurt BYU’s CFP on Saturday. You can read that article here.

After 13 weeks of college football, these are the things that need to happen for BYU to make the College Football Playoff:

1. Clemson loses one more game OR Notre Dame loses two more games

BYU’s path to the CFP could be blocked right away if a one-loss Clemson team beats an undefeated Notre Dame in the ACC championship game. If Clemson wins the ACC title then they will qualify for the CFP and

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BYU and Cincinnati’s rooting guide to make the College Football Playoff

[email protected]_84 November 22, 2020

The most intriguing storyline when the first set of College Football Playoff rankings are released Tuesday involves two teams on the outside trying to crack the four-team field.

Where will the committee place Cincinnati and BYU?

The Bearcats improved to 8-0 in the American Athletic Conference after knocking off UCF 36-33 on Saturday. Cincinnati fell behind 14-3 early, but quarterback Desmond Ridder rallied the Bearcats to another conference victory.

BYU scored a 66-14 victory against North Alabama, improving to 9-0 while navigating an independent schedule with the help of Heisman contender Zach Wilson.

The placement of those teams will offer clues as to what each team would need to slip into the College Football Playoff. Here is a step-by-step look at what each team needs to make that possible:

MORE: Ohio State runs past Indiana, but one passing question persists

Win out, stand out

The first part is self-explanatory. The

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The College Football Playoff Selection Committee Is Stupidly Insisting on Meeting in Person

[email protected]_84 November 20, 2020

The College Football Playoff selection committee announced COVID-19 protocols on Friday. While it makes sense to take those precautions, the fact that the committee still insists on meeting in person during a global pandemic is pretty ridiculous.

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The CFP is requiring all 13 selection committee members to take a rapid daily antigen test every Monday a.m. before they meet in person. If positive, a PCR test will follow. If THAT’s positive, they either quarantine 14 days at the Gaylord Texan, or drive home if possible.

— Heather Dinich (@CFBHeather) November 20, 2020

This makes absolutely no sense. I know a lot of the committee’s members are older, but has no one told them about Zoom?

If your response is that these discussions are too nuanced to have in a virtual

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College Football Playoff to Release First Rankings of a Chaotic Season

There are no 2020-specific rules for the committee.

Final rankings before first College Football Playoff committee reveal

College Football Playoff rankings are coming. What you need to know.

Top 5 Reasons to Not Expand the College Football Playoff | Bleacher Report

When are the College Football Playoff rankings released? Time, channel for first CFP selection show in 2020

How the College Football Playoff works

How does it work?

Opening arguments for College Football Playoff consideration

FIRST QUARTER: PLAYOFF OPENING ARGUMENTS

An Updated Look at BYU Football’s Path to the College Football Playoff

BYU and Cincinnati’s rooting guide to make the College Football Playoff

Win out, stand out

The College Football Playoff Selection Committee Is Stupidly Insisting on Meeting in Person