It’s time for Week 3 of the College Football Playoff Rankings and there couldn’t be more variables and controversy to discuss. Ohio State’s game against Michigan has been canceled meaning there are comparisons ongoing between teams that have played just five games vs. teams that have played ten.
On top of that, there isn’t a good apples to apples comparison because conferences have played just among themselves. So, if you’re trying to get into a common opponent discovery process, it just isn’t there like most other years.
So what will the College Football Playoff Committee do? If their job is to select the four best teams, then the number of games won’t play into everything like some of the other data points, but it will factor in some regard.
Either way, this week will be very, very important because it’s going to set things in place for what happens with the results of next week and beyond as we come down the home stretch. As we do prior to the latest release, here’s how we see the top ten of the rankings playing out when they are released Tuesday night.
