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By Marc Lawrence
 Wednesday, Dec 3

The College Football Playoff selection committee has unveiled their updated rankings ahead of this weekend’s conference championship games.

Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech are top four seeds in latest CFP rankings.

With this Saturday’s slate of games on the horizon, Alabama and Notre Dame are currently in possession of the last two at-large bids. The Crimson Tide will take on the Bulldogs in the SEC Championship this weekend. The Fighting Irish, on the other hand, have to wait until Selection Sunday to learn their fate.

Back on Aug. 31, Miami quarterback Carson Beck had 205 passing yards and two touchdowns in a 27-24 win over Notre Dame.

And yet, Notre Dame has the advantage over Miami heading into this Saturday’s conference title games.

Countless fans have voiced their complaints about Notre Dame’s ranking on social media.

They should.

 

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Oregon would receive a coveted top-four seed, and Texas A&M would play a first-round home game in the biggest changes to the College Football Playoff mock bracket based on the latest AP Top 25.

Texas A&M slipped from No. 3 to No. 7 in this week’s AP poll, allowing Oregon to move up one spot to No. 4. That would give the Big Ten three of the top four seeds, with Ohio State No. 1 and Indiana No. 2. Georgia of the SEC would be No. 3. Top-four seeds earn byes to the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, it was a make-or-break week for Michigan, which had a chance to make a convincing argument for the CFP with a win against Ohio State on Saturday.

But the Buckeyes came out on top against their rival for the first time since 2019, solidifying an undefeated season and putting an end to Michigan’s playoff hopes. The Wolverines fell three spots in the poll to No. 18.

Now, here’s the puzzler: Arizona ranked 22, Houston is not ranked, yet they have the same 9-3 records, play in the same conference and HOUSTON BEAT ARIZONA! Really?

Houston’s win over Arizona came on a field goal with one-second left. A win’s a win, of course, and Houston followed that up with a road win against Arizona State.

But, overall, Arizona is the better team right now. The Wildcats have won five straight since the loss to Houston, including a road win over a then-ranked Cincinnati.

They also just beat rival Arizona State on the road. Houston, on the other hand, has gone 3-2 since the win over Arizona, with one of those losses to a West Virginia team that finished 14th in the Big 12.


GRINDING OUT THE PROFITS
Coaching Carousel

UCLA is hiring James Madison head coach Bob Chesney, who will finish out the season with the Dukes (11-1) as they eye a CFP berth.

Kentucky is hiring Oregon OC Will Stein, and BYU's Kalani Sitake is reportedly "the focus" of Penn State's search.

This college football head coaching ride is from over.

TRENDING TODAY
Ditch the AP Preseason Poll?

Here's a crazy stat: 12 of the 25 teams in the preseason AP college football poll finished the regular season unranked.

Food for thought: Is it time to ditch the preseason poll? That initial Top 25 is a total crapshoot in the transfer era, with so many teams completely remaking their rosters year-to-year. The voters are just guessing.

  • Teams are ranked at the beginning of the season that shouldn't be, and wins against those teams are inflated all year long.

  • The opposite is also true: teams are unranked at the beginning of the season that should be ranked, and that can limit how high they climb.

The big picture: While the CFP rankings take precedence midseason, the AP rankings inform the committee's first reveal and are used as a guide in the weeks that follow. So one could argue that the preseason AP poll — which is, again, a total guessing game — has an indirect influence on the playoff field.

What's the solution? The simplest change would be to start the rankings after Week 1, or maybe even later than that (after Week 3?), to give voters a chance to actually watch teams play.

In theory, this gives everyone a blank slate and encourages voters to rank teams based solely on the present, rather than letting the previous season (and any other preconceived notions) influence the rankings.

BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW
Staying Put

Kalani Sitake is staying put. 

The 50-year-old head coach is set to remain at BYU despite heavy interest from Penn State over the past few days, which even pulled the CEO of Crumbl Cookies  into the fray. 

Just hours after reports emerged about his decision, the BYU  program announced that it has reached an extension with Sitake.

Penn State’s lengthy search for its next head coach continues.


QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive,
and some when they are leaving.”

- Confucious

STAT OF THE DAY
23

The 2025 Patriots are the first team in NFL history to win 10 straight games in a
single season while scoring at least 23
points and allowing 23 or fewer points
in every game of the streak.



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