[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.

[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.

[Libloather]

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

[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

[dfwgator]

Go Army!

[Chauncey Gardiner]

#1 team in the SEC not on the list of top 12.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Conference championships should have been considered part of the playoffs. A team loses it’s conference championship, it’s out.

One year Georgia beat Alabama for the SEC championship, Alabama beat Georgia for the National Championship.

[jjotto]

“Here, I am janitor; in former Soviet Union, I am physicist. Leningrad Polytechnika: Go Polar Bears.”

[dangus]

What I find so odd is that the only reason — and it’s a very, very good reason — people aren’t talking about Notre Dame as a strong contender for national champion is that they lost to Northern Illinois.

Notre Dame would still seem very unlikely to be a national champion if they lost to a fairly high-quality opponent, like Georgia or Tennessee or Army. The fact they lost to such a low-quality opponent only emphasizes that you can’t judge a season based on one game. How many teams have been justly, reasonably eliminated from contention by much, much more understandable losses?

[Steven Scharf]

College Football Playoff Rankings
1 Oregon Big Ten 11-0 - @ Wisconsin W 16-13 -
2 Ohio State Big Ten 9-1 @ Northwestern W 31-7 vs #5 Indiana
3 Texas SEC 9-1 - @ Arkansas W 20-10 vs Kentucky
4 Penn State Big Ten 9-1 - @ Purdue W 49-10 @ Minnesota
5 Indiana Big Ten 10-0 - - @ #2 Ohio State
6 Notre Dame FBS Indep. 9-1 2 vs Virginia W 35-14 vs #19 Army
7 Alabama SEC 8-2 3 vs Mercer W 52-7 @ Oklahoma
8 Miami ACC 9-1 1 - vs Wake Forest
9 Ole Miss SEC 8-2 2 - @ Florida
10 Georgia SEC 8-2 2 vs #7 Tennessee W 31-17 vs Massachusetts
11 Tennessee SEC 8-2 4 @ #12 Georgia L 31-17 vs UTEP
12 Boise State Mountain West 9-1 1 @ San José State W 42-21 @ Wyoming
13 SMU ACC 9-1 1 vs Boston College W 38-28 @ Virginia
14 BYU Big 12 9-1 8 vsKansas L 17-13 @ #21 Arizona State
15 Texas A&M SEC 8-2 - vs New Mexico State W 38-3 @ Auburn
16 Colorado Big 12 8-2 1 vs Utah W 49-24 @ Kansas
17 Clemson ACC 8-2 3 @ Pittsburgh W 24-20 vs The Citadel
18 South Carolina SEC 7-3 3 vs # 23Missouri W 34-30 vs Wofford
19 Army American 9-0 5 - vs # 6 Notre Dame
20 Tulane American 9-2 5 @ Navy W 35-0 -
21 Arizona State Big 12 8-2 NR @ #16Kansas State W 24-14 vs #14 BYU
22 Iowa State Big 12 8-2 NR vs Cincinnati W 34-17 @ Utah
23 Missouri SEC 7-3 - @ #21South Carolina L 34-30 @ Mississippi State
24 UNLV Mountain West 8-2 NR vs San Diego State W 41-20 @ San José State
25 Illinois Big Ten 7-3 NR vs Michigan State W 38-16 @ Rutgers

Rankings as per ESPN
https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/21/week/13/year/2024/seasontype/2

So six top 25 teams are playing each other this week.

# 2 Ohio v # 5 undefeated Indiana
# 6 Notre Dame v # 19 Army
# 14 BYU v # 21 Arizona State

Will a loss by these teams knock them out of the playoffs?

Boise has a bye in the playoff, but is 2 win Wyoming a trap game? Wyoming is the highest elevation stadium in the US. Will the thin air hurt Aston Jeantry’s performance? Or is just a beast.

After Wyoming, Boise State has one more blue field game, against 4 win Oregon State. If they don’t win these games, than they don’t belong in the championship. (Although, I have never been to Idaho, Boise is my team to root for).

Georgia is playing a cupcake team, Massachusetts. The question is not who will win, but how high Georgia runs the score up.

Note, I don’t have time to make the chart all pretty.