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The first College Football Playoff rankings yet dropped connected Tuesday night, giving teams and fans a unsmooth roadworthy representation done nan last period of nan season. Unsurprisingly, Oregon’s position arsenic nan (current) No. 1 squad successful nan state was confirmed by nan action committee.
While location weren’t a ton of surprises successful nan Top 25, nan committee did springiness america a bully glimpse into their thought process successful nan first twelvemonth of nan 12-team playoff format.
College Football Playoff: The caller 12-team format, rankings and seeding, explained
We cognize nan apical 4 powerfulness convention winners and nan highest-ranked Group of 5 teams are each guaranteed a spot, but it’s what nan bracket could look for illustration for nan last 7 seeds that person our attention.
Let’s locomotion done immoderate of nan biggest winners and losers from nan first rankings. Some of which will lead to teams and leagues celebrating connected Tuesday, while others are near wondering what other they tin do.
Winner: Oregon
Oregon coach Dan Lanning oversees warmups earlier nan crippled against Boise State astatine Autzen successful Eugene Sept. 7, 2024
No squad has transitioned to their caller convention successful nan latest information of realignment rather arsenic good arsenic Oregon and nan College Football Playoff committee rewarded nan Ducks for their efforts connected Tuesday.
Despite a chaotic recreation schedule and a slow commencement connected discourtesy to statesman nan year, Oregon has passed each trial pinch flying colors. It hit No. 2 Ohio State, No 20. Illinois and avoided stumbles connected nan roadworthy astatine historically dispute Michigan and Purdue. The Ducks person nan easiest way guardant pinch a Week 12 roadworthy travel to Wisconsin sandwiched betwixt Maryland and Washington location games.
The committee conscionable gave Oregon a beardown chance to fastener up nan No. 1 seed if it wins out.
Loser: Indiana
Indiana Head Coach Curt Cignetti looks up astatine nan scoreboard during nan Indiana versus Nebraska shot crippled astatine Memorial Stadium connected Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
9Windiana sewage immoderate respect successful nan rankings, but obscurity adjacent nan magnitude it deserves. While 3 of nan Big Ten’s biggest shot brands successful Penn State, Ohio State and Oregon find themselves successful the top six, an undefeated Hoosiers squad that sits atop nan convention is classed ninth. Clearly nan committee has not Googled Curt Cignetti yet. If it had, it’s difficult to spot really No. 7 Tennessee would beryllium up successful nan rankings.
Selection committee chair Warde Manuel: “Indiana , their spot of schedule is not arsenic beardown arsenic BYU’s, but what Indiana has done connected nan field, erstwhile we look astatine those games, they’re winning those games averaging 33 points per crippled much than their opponents.” #iufb
— Zach Osterman (@ZachOsterman) November 6, 2024
Fortunately for IU, it tin make nan committee eat its actions pinch wins complete Michigan and Ohio State complete nan adjacent 3 weeks.
Winner: Notre Dame
Oct 19, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish backmost Riley Leonard (13) passes against nan Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images
Whoa hold a second. Weren’t Notre Dame’s playoff dreams dormant aft Northern Illinois pulled disconnected nan Upset of nan Year successful South Bend 2 months ago?
Apparently, moving complete semi-competent teams successful Louisville and Georgia Tech person changed things. Yet nan biggest wins connected Notre Dame’s resume are a Week 1 triumph astatine a then-unknown Texas A&M and a neutral tract beatdown of a surging Navy team, 51-14. The Fighting Irish person a beardown lawsuit to make nan playoff arsenic agelong arsenic nary 1 looks astatine it excessively closely. A No. 10 ranking connected Tuesday is an other life for Marcus Freeman’s team. Now we’ll spot if they discarded it aliases not.
Loser: Big 12 and ACC
Oct 18, 2024; Provo, Utah, USA; The Brigham Young Cougars observe a triumph complete nan Oklahoma State Cowboys astatine LaVell Edwards Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images
The powerfulness conferences mixed to put conscionable 2 programs into nan 12-team section successful nan first rankings: No. 9 BYU (which would drawback nan No. 4 seed) and No. 3 Miami.
The connection couldn’t beryllium immoderate much clear from nan committee to nan ACC and Big 12: Only your convention champion is getting into nan playoff.
SMU astatine No. 13 is nan first squad retired aft laying a smackdown connected No. 18 Pitt connected Saturday. Meanwhile, No. 17 Iowa State — a 7-1 squad that mislaid a chaotic crippled to Texas Tech by 1 constituent successful Week 10 — is nan adjacent highest-ranked squad for nan Big 12. If nan ACC and Big 12 hoped an expanded section would springiness their conferences much opportunities for postseason glory, nan reality that nan 12-team section features 8 teams from nan SEC and Big Ten mixed has to sting rather a bit. Even if it was predictable.
Winner: Ohio State
STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 02: Gee Scott Jr. #88 of nan Ohio State Buckeyes celebrates pinch teammates aft defeating nan Penn State Nittany Lions 20-13 astatine Beaver Stadium connected November 02, 2024 successful State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
Remember 10 days agone erstwhile nan entity was falling successful Columbus and nan play was connected nan brink of disaster? It seems that whitethorn person been a spot premature. After a season-defining triumph astatine Penn State successful Week 10, nan Buckeyes sewage a monolithic changeable of luck successful a ranking they had virtually nary chance of topping.
Despite missing retired connected a bye, No. 2 Ohio State has nan easiest way to nan semifinals by acold astatine nan moment. The Buckeyes would big a location crippled successful nan first information against No. 12 Boise State, past look No. 9 BYU astatine a neutral tract since nan Big 12 champion would gain a bye sloppy of its ranking.
Ohio State — which remains nan odds-on favourite to triumph nan title — still seems for illustration it could spend different nonaccomplishment down nan agelong and make it into nan playoff. Though we wouldn’t urge trying this route.
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