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There are only four other top 25 left by the playoff committee before Sunday's selection. University football is almost gone, all of you. After a week 10 that has maintained the 2018 trend of maintaining order at the top while everything beneath the surface goes awry, let's move on to the second update of the commission season.
1. We know numbers 1 and 2. This was the case eight months ago and it will probably be the case in two months.
Bama (1) and Clemson (2) are a complete step in front of someone else. To move on
2. It turns out Our Lady (3) against. Michigan (4) was basically a playoff game in Week 1, right?
May be. While Auburn-Washington seemed to be the most important thing and that South Bend's game was very flashy for the cameras, it turns out that nobody knows anything. Notre Dame will be No. 3, and I think Michigan will be No. 4 before Georgia (5), because Michigan did not lose to a team that was destroyed.
(I think Michigan can skip Notre Dame Sunday in selection, but this is my most unpopular opinion for several weeks.
3. The Big 12 interlude starts here.
should Oklahoma (6), who did not have to play against Alabama, in front of LSU, who was to play against Alabama? The LSU calendar was undeniably more difficult, but S & P + would take the Sooners by 13 points on a neutral ground. Some call to West Virginia (7) to rank before the OU, via common results against Texas, but, uh, check their joint results against the state of Iowa.
Meanwhile, LSU (8) There was a very bad defeat, but how many teams from the 9th place would have definitely fallen to less than four touchdowns of the tide, now that it is established that even the historical betting gaps are a mere hurdle for Bama ?
4. Aaaaand, that's the end of easy calling.
The committee does not really think in these terms, but the previous issue 9 Washington State (9) deserves to fall in love with Cal. The problem is who deserved to jump? Should not State of Ohio (10) to fall in love with Nebraska? And where can Kentucky (11) to fall to lose badly at home?
UCF (12) staying behind several two losing teams would make comparisons with 2017, but would stop it. The UCF is just not as good as last year and you do not have to move the needle after a defeat against a Temple that lost to Villanova (and improved). I thought UCF had the chance to start in 12th this year and would have the chance to stay 10 places in front of Fresno State.
5. And uh, good luck to know it afterwards.
A big secret for the ranking of college football teams: it's a real chaos once you enter the age of adolescence. Go ahead and give a shot. Make the perfect list of the 25 teams that few reasonable people could find fault with.
And it's even more true this year than usual. For example, in last year's AP poll, we had three teams with three losses. This year we have seven.
The numbers (I like using a stack of S & P +, CPI, Record Strength, the AP survey, and the Massey Composite) indicate that Syracuse, two losses, should rank next. Syracuse beat NC State and [file not found]. Cuse will probably be in the top 15 (!!), but that's not exactly what I mean. From age 13, there are very few spots that deserve a lot of emotion right now.
State of Mississippi, State of NC, State of Penn, Florida, Washington, State of Fresno, Wisconsin, State of Iowa, Boston College, State of Michigan, Texas, Auburn, Utah, Iowa, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Army , Duke, South Carolina, and [other]? Of course, and in the order that you want (13-24).
BONUS ZONE. Lemme put a team in 25th place.
Not UAB, although it's a cool story. And not in the state of Utah, although S & P + finds the Aggies worthy of number 14.
Rank 5-4 Purdue (25).
The committee never ranked a team of four defeats so early in the season, but nothing would better solve the madness of 2018.
The Boilermakers beat an Ohio state that will likely be in the top 10, one of Boston College's top 20 host institutions. Play day, and a ranked Iowa. Three of their defeats took place although S & P + looked at the points and decided that Purdue would probably have won, and three against Michigan State or likely to be at the end of the season. (Northwestern and Missouri).
The Boilers' appearance on the field earned them 25th place in the S & P + rankings. I think that's where the committee should put them.
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