College Football Playoff Selection Committee Completes Its Third Rankings of 2024

College Football Playoff ^ | November 19, 2024 | Staff

[C19fan]

College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings Games Played through Saturday, November 16

1: Oregon 2: THE Ohio State University 3: Texas 4: Penn State 5: Indiana 6: Notre Dame 7: Alabama 8: The U 9: Ole Miss 10: UGa 11: Tennessee 12: Boise State

[C19fan]

This is the ranking not seeding. The top four seeds with a bye go to the top four conference champions. The top four seeds would be: Oregon, Texas, The U, and Boise State. #14 BYU would be in the playoff as the projected BIG 12 champion knocking out Tennessee. The bracket right now would have three SEC schools have to travel north of the Mason-Dixon Line to play at Notre Dame and B1G schools.

[C19fan]

Considering how players complained about heated benches were not working with 55 degree temperature Saturday night at Athens not looking good for the SEC schools having to play in the middle of December in Happy Valley and the Midwest.

[hardspunned]

Bracketology already? I still don’t know if I like the system. Seems like baseball anymore with two leagues, the SEC and Big 10.

[V_TWIN]

Miami will make a strong run....if they stay healthy they may just win it all

[mware]

Go Army. Their uniform for Army /Navy, honors 101st Screaming Eagles.

[buckalfa]

Well Ohio State’s prospects of earning a good seed or even making the playoffs took a hit with the injury of another starting lineman, center Seth McLaughlin.

[mewzilla]

Rankings are about sports betting.

Not sport.

[LukeL]

I can’t see how College Football can exist as it currently does. Look for it to become a minor league with only a weak affiliation to any university. They might pay the school the right to use the name and facilities, but the players will be non students.

[mewzilla]

Something I’d like to see....

Some math genius college football fanatic with time on his/her hands coming up with ranking criteria, then using end of the year stats ONLY to figure who comes out where using his/her system.

I would love to see how that compares...

[Libloather]

The ESPN displayed bracket has Ohio State #5 in the team selection. They would play in the quarterfinals.

[sphinx]

That’s been a weakness of the poll and bowl system since forever. Southern and Sunbelt teams have never had to play bowl and now playoff games in real football weather. Football is not supposed to be a studio sport.

[one guy in new jersey]

Gotta get past some brawlin’ micks this weekend tho

With one undefeated service academy already under their bloody belts

[one guy in new jersey]

What happens to NIL money for the best players should they become injured and can’t play?

It must kill them to watch their teams leave campus for road games or playoff/bowl games.

And if it’s a career-ending injury, boy how the mighty must fall. Kamala and them fighting for whatever employment their other skills will command.

[Michael.SF.]

As long as the teams selected for championship contention are based on ‘rankings’ some teams are going to feel shunned. To end this a playoff system should be developed.

**16 conferences, each with two divisions.
**round one of playoffs is conference championship game
**only conference champs advice. You can’t win your conference? You can’t be national champion.
**Round two eight games occurring over the New year holiday hosted by the traditional bowls.
** you then have eight team left and three rounds to determine the true champion

[Tell It Right]

For years there have been "computer rankings" for college football. In fact, during the BCS days, 1/3rd of the ranking formula came from a combination of already existing computer ranking scores. Perhaps the most popular computer ranking is Jeff Sagarin's rankings. His goes into strength of schedule based on opponents, and the SOS of the opponents' opponents, etc.

[dfwgator]

Go Army!

[Tell It Right]

What happens to NIL money for the best players should they become injured and can’t play?

One thing I was thinking about weeks ago, at least now with NIL the players are making money BEFORE they get injured. So if some have a career ending injury that prevents them from making it to the NFL, at least those players got payed something instead of nothing like they did before NIL became a thing.

[Rummyfan]

Notre Dame Saturday. Go Army! Beat Notre Dame!

[SeanS]

It’s been like that for decades.

[buckalfa]

"What happens to NIL money for the best players should they become injured and can’t play?"

Good question and I do not know the answer. Ohio State does provide legal counselling to athletes about their NIL contracts, and I am sure most colleges do also.

This also points to the need to classify players as employees so collective bargaining agreements can be arrived at to protect the contract rights of all parties. I know FR is anti union, but that direction will be needed to have any chance of having s level playing field.