November 4, 2024
By Shehan Jeyarajah, CBS Sports: The first College Football Playoff Rankings will be released on Tuesday evening. While this is the 11th year that the CFP selection committee has released rankings, the 12-team playoff will magnify the importance of the rankings more than anyone will expect.
Suddenly, instead of hyper-focusing on the top four, nearly every single slot in the rankings will be relevant. The top 15 teams are all those who can cleanly expect to play their way into the field. Teams all the way down to No. 25, with an extra emphasis on potential Group of Five champions, are firmly on the bubble. It’s one of the biggest shifts in college football history that will ensure that dozens of teams are still alive in the closing weeks of the season.
With that, terminology will change too. Get used to one distinction especially: ranking vs. seeding. Being No. 12 in the CFP Rankings doesn’t matter. Only being a top-12 seed does. The seeding will take into account the biggest new rules of the expanded playoff, especially that five conference champions are guaranteed auto bids and the top four conference champs will earn a bye. It will make for plenty of confusion.
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