The second College Football Playoff Rankings of the 2024 season have been released by the selection committee, and the Oregon Ducks remain in first.
Oregon is followed by (2) Ohio State, (3) Texas, (4) Penn State, and (5) Indiana. In the sixth through eighth spots are BYU, Tennessee, and Notre Dame, respectively.
No. 13 Boise State, No. 18 Washington State, No. 24 Army, and No. 25 Tulane are currently the only ranked teams outside the power conferences. Check out the full CFP Top 25 rankings below.
College Football Playoff Rankings
* Released Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024
1. Oregon
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Penn State
5. Indiana
6. BYU
7. Tennessee
8. Notre Dame
9. Miami
10. Alabama
11. Ole Miss
12. Georgia
13. Boise State
14. SMU
15. Texas A&M
16. Kansas State
17. Colorado
18. Washington State
19. Louisville
20. Clemson
21. South Carolina
22. LSU
23. Missouri
24. Army
25. Tulane
Here is a look at what the 12-team College Football Playoff Bracket would look like based on tonight’s rankings:
Projected College Football Playoff Bracket based on Nov. 12 rankings. pic.twitter.com/RDTz7SHheh
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The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will release its Top 25 rankings each week on Tuesday through Dec. 3. Below is the schedule of dates (all times Eastern):
- Tuesday, Nov. 19: 7-8pm
- Tuesday, Nov. 26: 8-9pm
- Tuesday, Dec. 3: 7-7:30pm
- Sunday, Dec. 8 (selection day): Noon-4pm
On Sunday, Dec. 8 at Noon ET, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee will announce the 12-team playoff bracket pairings and game sites.
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Under the Mason-Dixon format:
South:
Byes: Texas, Tennessee
First round: Georgia at Miami, Ole Miss at Alabama
Rest of the nation:
Byes: Oregon, Ohio State
First round: Boise State at Penn State, BYU at Indiana
As idiotic as your concept is…. First, one can only earn a first-round bye if one has captured a conference title. So… it would be Oregon and BYU that would currently have the assumed roles of conference champions for “rest of the nation” and that would leave Boise State at Ohio State with Indiana at Penn State. For “under the Mason-Dixon” it would be Texas and Miami that assume the roles of conference champions which would leave Georgia at Tennessee and Ole Miss at Alabama.
Independent of the entropy, your concept attempts to partition away, the laws of the contest remain immutable (i.e. the four highest ranked champions earn the four first-round bye).
Please, no more.
No need to call it “idiotic”. It’s a concept, even if it is bizarre… Who ten years ago would have predicted what we do have now?
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I would agree that the committee should work to avoid rematch games in the first round. But an Ole Miss v Alabama game now that the SEC doesn’t lock six opponents would be fun this year. (Bama only keeps AU and UT, I think?)
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But, even the CFP rankings are silly until the conference championship games have happened. Too much in play.
David, Z-Man, Spencer Coldburn,
Dittos w/ David, except 4 1 sentence.
In NFL playoffs, which the BCS Properties, LLC =s not, when 2 Conference teams earn a berth vs each other they play & the merited winner advances.
The BCS Properties, LLC 13 Star committee members would convolute the 11 select invitational Teams less by matching them up with whomever they merit by their record.
The 24 Team Championship Division Playoff Berths have this happen regularly & the best playing Team resume always wins & advances.
When the SEC & B18g10 are awarded many invitations, they will rightfully throw each other off the Hill by their Onfield play.
It should be this way.
End of story
Onfield play =s Reality.
NO perception of avoiding Conference Matches =s reality.
Is this English?
My proposal allows teams who didn’t win their conference title to have first-round byes, which would benefit Notre Dame in a future season since they are independent.
If the two best teams in the nation are from the same region of country, it’s not an issue.
There should never be a system that doesn’t let the top two teams play for a chance at the championship because of geography.
Stop.
I’ve stated numerous times that this wouldn’t be the first time something like this was done.
The NCAA has long done geographical championship brackets in many sub-D1 sports, and use to do it a lot in D1 as well, not as much anymore.
As well, if automatic bids don’t get seeding priority in March Madness, why should conference champions get seeding priority in the CFP? After all, if Notre Dame is ranked high enough, they deserve a first-round bye. I can’t support a format which punishes them for not being in a conference.
I believe the byes (the top 4 seeds ) should be conference champions, why? Because then you know you control your own destiny, sure things could change, like whoever wins the conference championship game, but those teams should get the bye. For example right now , Oregon is the 1 seed, and ranked #1 while Ohio State, Penn State and Indiana could all win the big 10 , so the only fair way is the winner gets the bye, plus what I like is that team plays in the Rose Bowl. As for Notre Dame or any other independent, I say join a conference.
Right now ND and UConn are set to be the only independents next year, though I think UConn should go to the MAC for football only.
ND can survive as an FBS indie since they are a national brand.
Seeding priority for conference (CFP)/division (pro sports) winners is problematic. In the NFL, a team could finish with a losing record, and still win their division, giving them a home game while a wild card team with a much better record has to open the playoffs on the road. MLB also gives seeding priority to division winners. The NBA on the other hand has realized the problems with division winner seeding priority and thus removed it.
Notably, seeding priority for division winners in the NFL screwed over the Green Bay Packers, the defending champs who had finished 15-1, in 2011. The New York Giants had the worst record of all NFC playoff teams at 9-7, but it was enough to win the NFC East and open the playoffs at home where they handled the Falcons with ease. The Packers subsequently fell to the Giants in the divisional round, continuing the streak of 15-1 teams failing to win the Super Bowl since their hated rivals the Bears did it in 1985. Had seeding priority for division winners not existed in 2011, the Giants would have been the 6th seed and been forced to open the playoffs against the Saints in the Superdome, where they were on the wrong end of a 49-24 beatdown on MNF earlier in the season, and where they had not win since another MNF game in 1993 at the time. That streak likely would have continued. Meanwhile the Packers would have gotten the winner of Lions at Falcons, a win-win since both are dome teams that normally do bad in cold weather, whereas the Giants are a fellow cold-weather team.
It was also problematic in the 2012 MLB playoffs, where the Detroit Tigers had the worst record of all playoff teams, but got to skip the newly-implemented Wild Card Game since they won the AL Central. They proceeded all the way to the World Series, sweeping my Yankees in the ALCS along the way, though they couldn’t beat San Francisco. Likewise, in 2015, the three best records in the NL came from the Central, but only the division winning Cardinals were afforded a first-round bye, while the Dodgers and Mets got to avoid the NL Central altogether until the NLCS, which paid off as the Mets swept the Cubs, who finally broke their title drought a year later.
So, in short, if you win your conference or division (depending on the sport), you don’t deserve special treatment beyond the playoff berth you already have. The NFL and MLB need to follow the NBA’s lead and remove seeding priority from division winners, to make it harder for a weak division winner to win the championship.
Also, again, automatic bids don’t get seeding priority in March Madness. Most auto-bids in fact are on the lower rungs of seeding. Giving seeding priority to auto-bids would create too many problems.
MLB plays 13 times against each division foe to comprise (52/162=) 32% of each’s schedule.
NFL plays twice against each division foe to comprise (6/17=) 35% of each’s division schedule.
NBA plays 4 times against each division foe to comprise (16/82=) 19.5 % of each’s schedule.
FBS plays either 9 or 8 games against other conference foes to comprise (9/12=) 75% or (8/12=) 67% of each’s schedule.
Divisions are an afterthought to which professional leagues conduct business, that is not the case within FBS competition. Conference championships are much more prestigious and meaningful than a directional title within a professional arcade of competition and therefore are of the upmost concern when scheduling post-season competition.
Spencer, it’s more important that each side of the Mason-Dixon Line have an equal shot at producing the national champion, even if it means granting byes to teams who didn’t win their conference.
Womp womp.