Clemson Maintains Top Spot In CFB Playoff Rankings

Then, pull for Stanford to beat #4 Notre Dame. The latest rankings have the Clemson Tigers in the top spot while the Alabama Crimson Tide is second.

Clearly, the selection committee wasn’t impressed with the Gators’ play against Vanderbilt, making them human beings with functional eyes. They are in position to run the table and play in the College Football Playoff. The near conensus on the Internet was that No. 8 was too low a ranking for the Cowboys, who knocked off a previously unbeaten TCU team by 20 points.

As it stands now, the Buckeyes will have to do it again if they want to repeat as national champions.In the second College Football Playoff ranking released Tuesday night, the Buckeyes (9-0) remained No. 3.

That more than makes up for Alabama’s loss to MS, which fell out of this week’s rankings after a loss to Arkansas. That would put LSU in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game on December 5 in Atlanta against SEC East champion Florida (8-1), which is No. 11 in the CFP poll. Oklahoma; 13. MI State; 14. Barrett is considered the starter heading into the No. 2 Buckeyes’ game this Saturday, at IL. Although, the Huskers have no shot to make the College Football Playoff, they’ll have a real shot to alter the entire landscape of college football.

Long noted the Bears do not have victory over a team with a winning record.

Consider, if you will, a hypothetical.

Alabama (#2 seed) wins 53.4% of the time against Ohio State (#3 seed) with an average score of 26-24.

Iowa moved up four spots to fifth, and No. 6 Baylor is the highest-ranked Big 12 team. Florida wins out, beating Alabama in Atlanta.

Ohio State will have another chance to play a ranked team in its regular-season finale November 28. Florida’s loss would be to a top-10 team, probably, but Notre Dame’s would nearly certainly be to No. 1 Clemson.

“Well, you don’t look at them (OSU’s win over TCU and Baylor’s win over Kansas State) in isolation, one against the other”, Long said.

Baylor, Oklahoma State and No. 12 Oklahoma will provide the committee with more information when they battle each other this month.

“I don’t think the ranking means anything”, Saban said. The Committee said last week they couldn’t really judge the Big 12 accurately yet because none of the powers in the conference had played anyone of note to date. Despite a few of the best speed in the nation, the Tigers are in 13th of 14 teams in the SEC in kickoff returns with a 16.7-yard average. The truth in this instance is that these are nonsensical rankings that have absolutely no impact on the actual playoff picture. See? Head Coach Kirk Ferentz, who coming into the year was fielding questions about his job security, has his team playing as perhaps the biggest surprise team of the season.