Every reaction to every College Football Playoff ranking should start with a disclaimer, as explained by The Athletic ’s Chris Vannini after he went through a mock selection process before the season: The 13-person committee does not talk everything through and agree on the rankings. They talk everything through, of course. But they vote individually, exactly like the NCAA basketball tournament committees each year.
These folks putting together the first 12-team Playoff can ultimately retreat to their biases. Each one punches in his or her choices, hidden from the others, and can lean on whatever he or she values most. Advertisement Which means that every time rankings come out and someone on the outside complains, which is 100 percent guaranteed, someone on the inside might be feeling the same way.
I sure hope a few of them hate what some of their cohorts have done to BYU and can explain in weeks to come why it makes no sense. GO DEEPER CFP rankings revealed: Oregon takes top spot, who snuck into top 12? ESPN’s Booger McFarland started Tuesday’s broadcast by calling Indiana “the most disrespected team in the country,” but the rankings soon said otherwise. BYU deserves that title today.
Kalani Sitake’s Cougars are 8-0 and have one of the best wins in the field — on the road against SMU , which was the first team out at No. 13 in the initial CFP rankings — yet came in No. 9.
ESPN’s Greg McElroy called that “painfully low.” NUMBER NINE. pic.
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