After one of the wildest upset weekends in history — three of the AP poll’s top four teams all lost on Saturday — you knew the college football landscape was due for some bulldozing. That applied to both the College Football Playoff committee’s rankings, which landed Tuesday night, and FiveThirtyEight’s CFP prediction model, which uses […]
This time last week, the College Football Playoff picture looked pretty tidy. Conveniently for the selection committee, there were four undefeated major-conference teams — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — a perfect fit for the all-important top four slots of the CFP rankings. And although chaos is always around the corner in college football, the […]
This time last week, the College Football Playoff picture looked pretty tidy. Conveniently for the selection committee, there were four undefeated major-conference teams — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — a perfect fit for the all-important top four slots of the CFP rankings. And although chaos is always around the corner in college football, the […]
Things have been relatively easy for the College Football Playoff committee so far this season. There are four remaining undefeated major-conference schools — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — which slide neatly into the top four slots of the rankings. Meanwhile, a couple of dominant one-loss teams — Ohio State and Louisville — wait in […]
Things have been relatively easy for the College Football Playoff committee so far this season. There are four remaining undefeated major-conference schools — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — which slide neatly into the top four slots of the rankings. Meanwhile, a couple of dominant one-loss teams — Ohio State and Louisville — wait in […]